Frame Your Idea has 3000+ meetings at FICCI FRAMES 2016

 ‘Frame Your Idea’ holds over 3000 meetings between idea owners and content producers at FICCI FRAMES

The biggest content pitch in India!

MUMBAI, Aril 1, 2016: After the resounding success of 2015, Frame Your Idea (FYI) under the aegis of FICCI FRAMES created an even greater access to content producers for those with a creative spark and the burning desire to achieve success in celluloid but no access to makers. 

Across the 3 days of FYI, over 3000 meetings fructified between 300 writers/idea owners & over 70 producers /studios/broadcasters as a part of the happenings at FICCI FRAMES 2016. 

These 3000 meetings were across the categories of Film, Animation, TV,  Documentary and the newly added Digital & Finished Content. 

The 70 or so FYI panelists consisted of content teams of producers, directors, studios, broadcasters and content aggregators, looking for that next big idea, story, script or finished content that they would want to grab and put out there.

In 2015, FICCI conceived and executed this ‘first of its kind’ forum in India called ‘Frame Your Idea’ (FYI) with the intention to create access for creative minds to pitch their ideas, stories or scripts to best content producers.

The forum was unveiled in 2015 at the 16^th edition of FICCI FRAMES, an annual event of FICCI, which serves as a vital link between the media & entertainment industry and the policy makers.

Last year, out of the 650 meetings that were accomplished between 200 idea owners and 20 content producers (producers/broadcasters/studios), Mr. Siddhanta Ashdhir, an Engineer turned Writer/Entrepreneur and Mr. Nihit Bhave, a former  journalist, were signed as screenplay writers by a leading Studio & a heavyweight producer. DISNEY/UTV and Phantom Films were the two players which spotted and picked up the two fresh writers.

  

In 2016, with the hint of international participation of creative minds (Turkey, Nigeria, USA) and of course all parts of India FYI with its figures makes itself the only platform in the country of its kind & scale.

‘Frame Your Idea’ 2016 Panelists -

Feature Films

Balaji Motion Pictures
Rajkumar Hirani Films
Cinestaan Film Company
Relativity Media
Dharma Productions
Rohit Shetty Productions
Disney Films
ROMP
Drishyam Films
RSVP (Ronnie Screwvala)
Emmay Ent. & Motion Pictures
Salman Khan Films
Film Karavan
Shemaroo Entertainment
Fox Star Studio
Tips Industries
Geetha Arts
Trinity Pictures
Eros International Media
India Stories
Viacom18 Motion Pictures
John Abraham Productions
Video Palace
Kabir Khan films
Von Ryans Entertainment
Macguffin Pictures
Wiz Films (Wizcraft)
Phantom Films
Vishesh Films

TELEVISION

BBC Worldwide India
Phantom Films
Beyond Dreams
Star Plus
ZEE TV
Dhaval & Gurodev productions
Life OK
Mumtaz Saba Productions

ANIMATION

Cartoon Network
Shemaroo Entertainment
CFSI
Toonz Media Group
Whacked Out Media
Green Gold Animation
Whizkids Media
Nickelodeon
ZeeQ
Screenyug

DIGITAL

ALT Balaji
Amazon Prime Video, India
Beyond Dreams
Silly Monks Entertainment
Emmay Ent. & Motion Pictures
Sony LIV
Film Karavan (for Netflix)
Toonz Media Group
Hotstar
Trinity Pictures – Eros International Media
Kabir Khan Films
Whacked Out media
Relativity media
Wiz Films (Wizcraft)
Sikhya Entertainment

DOCUMENTARY

Nat Geo
Film Karavan
Screenyug

FINISHED CONTENT

Cinestaan Film Company
Shemaroo Entertainment
Film Karavan
Sony LIV
Dhaval & Gurodev productions
Viacom18 Motion Pictures
Rajkumar Hirani Films
Vista India

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Ram Charan's sister Shreeja ties the knot at a VIP studded affair

As far as Indian Cinema goes , Megastar Chiranjeevi and his son Ram Charan are names that need no introduction.

Hence it comes as no surprise that the wedding of Ram Charan's sister , Shreeja , was an illustrious ,star studded affair.

Known to be gracious hosts , the family came together to host a wedding to remember as Shreeja married her childhood sweetheart Kalyan Kanuganti .

The wedding was truly the talk of the town as the South Industry's biggest stars,filmmakers and politicians graced the occasion. The wedding was a very intimate affair and took place at the family's Bangalore farm house. Ram Charan played the perfect host and made sure that everything was seamless till the

end.

The reception was later hosted at the Park Hyatt in Hyderabad.

FICCI FRAMES 2016 - Govt is keen to promote media and entertainment industry

MUMBAI, 1 April 2016: The Government of India was making a conscious effort to move towards less regulation of the media and entertainment industry and was encouraging auto regulation by industry, said Mr. Sunil Arora, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting at a keynote session on ‘Making India a Global M&E Hub’  on day three of FICCI FRAMES.

Mr. Arora said that the industry had time and again raised the issue of clearances. Hence the government was easing and liberalizing the process of security clearances to allow greater flexibility for the film fraternity. Speaking about the FM auctions, he said after the successful auction last year, a  new set of rules have been submitted to the Cabinet for the next phase of FM radio auctions.

Underlining the challenges for making India a global M&E hub, Mr. Arora said that the theatre density of the country left a lot to be desired. There was a need to increase the number of theatres in the country. On the taxation side, he said that the levies would be rationalized automatically once the GST is in place.

Raising the issue of lack of domestic manufacturing of set top boxes, Mr. Arora said that the electronics industry needs to play a critical role in stepping up the production of set top boxes in India. Currently, in India less than 10 per cent set top were being manufactured domestically.

Mr. Arora said that that the government was committed to digitization and was moving towards it. The National Film Archives of India was working towards safeguarding the heritage of Indian cinema and was in the process of digitizing more than 1000 films. 

Mr. Arora said that the government was setting up a Film Facilitation Office for enabling the industry and government in tandem. To promote the media and entertainment industry in the states, a new award ‘Most Film Friendly State’ had been conceived. He added that this year, Gujarat would be felicitated with the newly created award.

Highlighting the initiatives of the government to promote the media and entertainment industry in the country, Mr. Arora said that a Centre of Excellence for Animation, Visual Effects and Gaming was coming up at the Film City in Maharashtra besides a National Film Museum and Permanent National Photo Gallery.

Mr. Uday Shankar, Chairman, FICCI’s M&E Committee and CEO, STAR India and Mr. Ramesh Sippy, Co-Chairman, FICCI Media & Entertainment Committee, also shared their views.

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