This festival has two purposes: to make Indian cinema more mainstream, introducing people to the global appeal and popularity of Indian cinema, old and new and to help craft an environment of co-productions for the Irish And Indian film makers. Indian film makers to come and invest and shoot films in Ireland.
Like the previous IFFI, this year maintains four definite stands, The star in retrospective - the Indian cinema’s well know actor - Miss Rani Mukerji, the director in focus Mr Vishal Bhardwaj (opening and closing film) who will also be conducting a master class, in conjunction with the FAS screen training Ireland, The début director – Anusha Rizvi, the Indian Diaspora film director Avtar Bhogal. The Symposium on Indian film industry will be mediated by Atul tiwari and Dr Rashmi Sawhney at Trinity College. To celebrate the Indian Film Festival of Ireland 2011, a new breed of directors, film makers, actors, writers and actresses have been invited to represent the new wave of Indian Cinema, the Indian Film Industry which is now truly global.
The charity gala film festival dinner will be held on the 11th May in the Burlington hotel in the aid of South East Asian study and the Trinity foundation.
In 2011 the Indian Film Festival of Ireland will be touring also in Northern Ireland, in Belfast as well as Limerick and Kerry.