Indus Telefilm Festival

The Indus Telefilm Festival was a Pakistani film festival held in 2003.[1]

Indus Telefilm Festival
Excellence in filmmaking
Opening filmInsan Aur Shaitan
Closing filmWorld Ka Center
LocationKarachi, Pakistan
FoundedJune 2003
Awards receivedKamran Qureshi for Best TV Film and Director for Murad
AwardsIndus TV Awards
Film titlesInsan Aur Shaitan, Jahan Rahmat Qaid Hai, Khuwab Kinara, Murad, Marhoom Colonel Ki Baitiaan, Mera Intizar Karna, and World Ka Center.
Directed byJawad Bashir, Shahid Shafaat, Sohail Javed, Kamran Qureshi, Mehreen Jabbar, Jahanzaib Sohail and Faisal Rehman.
Written byShakeel Awan, Shahid Shafaat, Khurram Shariq, Zafar Mairaj, Nasreen Rehman, Arbad Abdul Wakeel and Bilal Manto.
StarringSania Saeed, Humayun Saeed, Samina Ahmad, Yasir Nawaz, Sohail Asghar, Qazi Wajid, Ahsan Khan, Nabeel Zafar, Adnan Siddiqui, Arjumand Rahim, Javeria Abbasi, Zaheen Tahira and many more.
Hosted byIndus TV Network
No. of filmsSeven
Festival dateJune - July, 2003
LanguageUrdu

The festival showed films that had been filmed in the previous year. Seven films were shortlisted for the main competition, the winner of which received a prize of Rs 500,000.[2][3]

The event was the first of its kind by the Indus TV Network to promote creativity in storytelling among amateurs as well as professionals producers and directors. Iqbal Ansari, Director Programmes of Indus TV Network remarked at the conclusion of the Indus Telefilm Festival 2003. "It's up to the director to have the courage to explore various methods. Our objective, which was to encourage diversity of direction and content treatment, was achieved."[4]

Jury

The festival had a jury comprising writers, directors, actors and journalists who were to judge the three best telefilms. The jury included Ashfaq Ahmed, Bano Qudsia, Talat Hussain, Kanwar Aftab Ahmad, Shafiq Ahmed, Iqbal Ansari, Khursheed Haider and Noorul Huda Shah.[5]

Winners
  • Kamran Qureshi - First Winner: Best TV Film and Director for Murad with cash prize PKR 500,000/-
  • Mehreen Jabbar - Second Winner: Best TV Film and Director for Marhoom Colonel Ki Baitiaan with cash prize PKR 200,000/-
  • Faisal Rehman - Third Winner: Best TV Film and Director for World Ka Center with cash prize PKR 100,000/-[6]

See also

References
  1. "Indus Telefilm Festival". Indus TV Network. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  2. "Telefilm festival" (Vol. XX). SHE Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-06-13. Retrieved August 2003. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. "Official Poster". Indus Vision. Indus TV Network. Archived from the original on 2015-06-12. Retrieved June 2003. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. Zahoor, Afia. "Telefilms have their day" (TubeTime). Dawn News. Archived from the original on June 12, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2003.
  5. Mazhar, Uzma. "From Maa to Maamta" (Iss. 05). SHE Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-06-13. Retrieved March 2004. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  6. "Indus Telefilm Festival". IMDb. IMDb. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
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