{"id":20096,"date":"2014-08-08T16:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T10:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20096"},"modified":"2014-08-09T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T15:17:00","slug":"nizhalattam-short-film-festival-started-off-with-grandeur-in-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/nizhalattam-short-film-festival-started-off-with-grandeur-in-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Nizhalattam short film festival started off with grandeur in Trivandrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nizhalattam<\/strong>, the five-day long short film and arts festival has started off at Kanakakkunnu, Trivandrum. The Festival was inaugurated by actor\/ writer <strong>Murali Gopy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by Nizhalattam arts and cultural society, an online fraternity of artists across the world, the festival is the first of its kind event which has participation from all the colleges in Kerala. More than 2000 students and people from various social cultural backgrounds will be participating in the short film festival.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20100\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20100\" class=\" wp-image-20100\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/08\/nizhalattam-muraligopi.jpg\" alt=\"Murali Gopi Inaugurating Nizhalattam. Photo Credit: Nizhalattam Facebook Page\" width=\"486\" height=\"274\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murali Gopi Inaugurating Nizhalattam. Photo Credit: Nizhalattam Facebook Page<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>More than 2000 students and people from various social cultural backgrounds will be participating in the short film festival.\u00a0Nizhalattam will also feature workshop on wedding photography,\u00a0interaction with <strong>Balan Madhavan<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The festival will screen more than 100 short films<\/strong> from various genres by amateur and professional filmmakers. \u00a0Apart from Short film screen, Nizhalattam will also feature workshop on wedding photography, interaction with Balan Madhavan and many cultural events.<\/p>\n<p>One notable short film which will screen at the festival is the \u2018<strong>Lipstick<\/strong>\u2019 directed by <strong>Khais Millen<\/strong>. Lipstick which is scripted by director himself is a bold take on the lives of homosexual minority who struggle to find their identity in a conventional society. It tells the story of Shyam, a boy who undergoes sexual abuse at the age of 8 from Krishnan. Even 20 years after this incident, Shyam is only committed to Krishnan in this life and hopes to lead a life with him.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe film got high prominence as now Supreme Court has declared homosexuality a criminal offence recently. We are neither supporting this concept nor disagreeing to this. All we want is that the film should spark a talk on this topic. They too have their freedom right\u201d<\/em>, says Khais Millen who has more than 10 years of experience in film direction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20101\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/08\/LIPSTICK.jpg\" alt=\"LIPSTICK\" width=\"572\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The film which has been screened at many festivals such as \u2018Festellen South Indian Short Film Festival\u2019 has won the awards for best short film, best director and best actor in the festival. \u2018Lipstick\u2019 was the only Malayalam short film which was selected to screen at the \u2018Noida International Film Festival\u2019 where it won the jury award for best film and special jury award for best actor.<\/p>\n<p>Nizhalattam short film festival will come to an end on 12th August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nizhalattam, the five-day long short film and arts festival has started off at Kanakakkunnu, Trivandrum. The Festival was inaugurated by actor\/ writer Murali Gopy. Organized by Nizhalattam arts and cultural society, an online fraternity of artists across the world, the festival is the first of its kind event which has participation from all the colleges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}