{"id":6930,"date":"2013-01-09T16:16:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2013-01-09T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:46:30","slug":"trivandrum-to-host-7th-edition-of-signs-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-to-host-7th-edition-of-signs-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum to host 7th edition of Signs Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th edition of <strong>Signs Festival<\/strong>&#8211; the pioneering festival in India for digital videos featuring national level competition for documentaries and short fiction will be held in <a href=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum<\/a> from February 10 to 15. <strong>Signs Festival<\/strong> is organized by federation of film societies of India-Keralam.<\/p>\n<p>A press release from the Federation of Film Societies of India said that the 6 day event will be held at two venues and will screen about 150 documentaries and short fiction films.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions for the competitions section for the prestigious \u2018<strong>John Abraham National Awards<\/strong>\u2019 for documentaries and short fiction are now open. The last date for submission is 10th January 2013. Online submission facility is available through their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signsfestival.com\/entryform\/sf.php\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The duration of short films for the competition should be less than 70 minutes. However there will be no time limit for the documentary films. There is also a 2 day workshop on Blender which is free and open source 3D animation software and blender films from all over the world will also be screened. Blender is used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games etc.<\/p>\n<p>For more details log on to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.signsfestival.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">signsfestival.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <strong>FEDERATION OF FILM SOCIETIES OF INDIA &#8211; KERALAM<\/strong><br \/>\nKRA B-35, TC 28\/2724, Near Dhanya-Ramya Theatre,<br \/>\nKunnumpuram, Thiruvananthapuram &#8211; 695 001, Kerala, India.<br \/>\nTel: +91 828 120 7927 [Office]<\/p>\n<p>Mob:<br \/>\n+91 944 648 7940 : C. S. Venkiteswaran [Artistic Director, SiGNS]<br \/>\n+91 944 749 5408 : Prabhakaran K. [Secretary, FFSI Kerala]<br \/>\n+91 949 762 1846 : V. K. Joseph [Festival Co-ordinator]<\/p>\n<p>Email :<br \/>\ninfo@signsfestival.com<br \/>\ndirector@signsfestival.com<br \/>\nsigns2013@gmail.com<br \/>\nffsikeralam@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th edition of Signs Festival&#8211; the pioneering festival in India for digital videos featuring national level competition for documentaries and short fiction will be held in Trivandrum from February 10 to 15. Signs Festival is organized by federation of film societies of India-Keralam. A press release from the Federation of Film Societies of India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}