Incredible India, an initiative by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, in association with content-based digital solutions provider Trivone Digital Services, has launched a short film contest for travellers to promote tourism by depicting pristine destinations within the country.
The contest, open to both Indians and foreign nationals, aims to promote unexplored destinations, encourage visitors to share their travel adventures. Anyone who loves travelling and capturing those moments can upload travel videos of less than three minutes’ duration, on the Pixel13 website to showcase the best of their experiences.
Pixel13 invites videos that portray best destinations, travel experiences and guidelines to visit lesser-known places. The initiative has already received tremendous response with over 1800 entries and about 2000 members and is expected to receive many more.
Contestants have to be aged 18 or above to participate in this free online contest by completing a simple Registration Form on the website. Thereafter, they are free to upload the short films, which will be judged a high-powered jury combined with an online poll, which will be initiated once the call for entries closes down.
Eminent filmmaker Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, who made several memorable movies like India’s first silent movie in color ‘Pushpak’ and got veteran actor Kamal Haasan to play the dwarf, will be heading the high-powered jury. The short-film adjudged as the ‘Best Film’ based on the online poll and jury will receive a prize worth Rs.50000 sponsored by the Hospitality Partners Royal Orchid Hotels.
Speaking about the L. Subramanyan, campaign Founder & CEO, Trivone said, “We are happy to join hands with Incredible India to promote Indian tourist destinations globally. Our aim is to get tourists to document and articulate their experience through a short video film that can be accessed by anyone who visits the website. We also think that such a venture can create awareness of little known places within the country which have thus far remained unexplored.”
