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About BYOFF
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Bring
Your Own Film Festival (BYOFF) is an annual event
held during February 21st to 25th every year on Puri beach.
Puri is a famous heritage and temple town in Odisha (Orissa), Eastern
India.
To call BYOFF just a film festival is to limit its unique
magical quality.
It’s a festival without hierarchy, competition, juries and
awards.
Where not only filmmakers but also artists from other
disciplines like music, theatre, painting, sculpture, dance,
literature and photography are encouraged to participate and
show their work.
In short, BYOFF can be best described as an informal and
intimate gathering of artists with films in the backdrop where
screenings go on early into the morning hours- first, inside
make-shift tents and then in the open air after sun down.
For filmmakers, it has been an alternative platform ever since
its first edition in the year 2004.
The idea is to have a festival away from the oppressive
atmosphere of bureaucratic control of big cities and where just
about anybody - with or without films - could participate.
The participants of BYOFF themselves are the volunteers and the
organizers of its future editions.
And the mood of the festival is that of a no holds barred
carnival where the sea and its sand provide the right ambience
to lift the spirits of every one present. |
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