India’s first chain of Fitness Café FitZup Café launches in Mumbai

FitZup is all set to launch FitZup Café – India’s first chain of Fitness Café which is designed to focus on easy buying of lifestyle nutrition products and experiencing more than 50+ healthy recipes made with all natural and organic products by FitZup. The aim is to create awareness of how nutrition is important in everyone’s lifestyle and buying products is not a task.

The first FitZup Cafe is primed up to launched in Andheri at the renowned MultiFit Gym which has a Pan India presence.

The Global Fitness movement has slowly but successfully proliferated our nation and has revolutionized the way we look at Wellness and Fitness as a part of our cohesive development! And, at FitZup they pledge to accelerate and felicitate this Fitness drive with a newer international perspective of Holistic living!

 

FitZup has more than 100+ products and more 50+ in making which are specially designed and curated by experts with decades of experience.

FitZup Café will be a retail and service model both where FitZup products will be sold and recipes made of can be experienced by health aficionados. It will be a community place for everyone who believes in Fitness.

Mr. Neeraj Mishra, Co- Founder FitZup shares, “In the coming 3 years we are targeting Indian geographical landscape. These Café will be made accessible to the masses via Gyms, Clubs, Society Clubs, Corporate Park, Malls, Cinema-Multiplex, Hospitals and Hotspot Standalone Café’s. We have a target of 200+ Café’s. These will be through Company owned and Franchise model. I belive in a cohesive healthy lifestyle module for a holistic healthy living and natural wellness. These one of kind Café’s will certainly help us in achieving our set goals.”

Samir Kapoor (PhD), Co-Founder & MD, MultiFit said, “Fitness industry is one of the fastest growing and most attractive sectors of the world, accounting for over 22{61307dbfb632870ba326f6322853bd3ffea5b163e9c789324eea2723926c15c1} of the entire Wellness business pie. An absolute necessity of the hour both from a mental and physical stability point-of-view is the imperative need to remain fit. Fitness thus in the Indian scenario is no more a luxury or a choice, but needs to be bracketed as a basic essential of day to day life – an essential commodity such as food, education, health, etc. We are proud to be associated with FitZup Café and believe together, we will be able help our members live a healthy lifestyle.”

TV celebs like Sreejita Dey, Pooja Gor and Raj Singh Arora, Srishty Rode, Pryanca Talukdar and Food Bloggers like Karthik of Nihayati Bhukkad, Raj of Indian lifestyles and Meet Shah of Mumbai Lifestyles were present for the grand launch

Fitness in true sense is the ultimate race towards healthy goals with no finish line. And, with great courage and determination one can achieve it and FitZup is detrimental in bringing a change in our society.

Sandeep Marwah Honored With Delhiites Icon of The Year Award

A grand function was held at Pullman Hotel New Delhi by the renowned magazine Delhiites to present “Delhiites Icon of The Year Award” to some of the prominent personalities of Delhi who all have done extremely well in their field.

Delhiites Icon of The Year Award honored renowned film and media personality Sandeep Marwah for his untiring efforts and extra ordinary contribution in the field of cinema and media.

Sandeep Marwah is six times World Record holder, founder and promoter of Noida Film City, Marwah Studios, Asian Academy of Film And Television and chairperson of more than hundred social, cultural, film and TV organizations. He is teacher to more than 13000 media professionals hailing from 120 countries of the World.

H.E. Manuel Mbela Bama Ndong, Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to India and the editor in Chief of Delhiites Deepak Sondhi presented the award “I am much obelized to the organization for honoring me as Icon of the Year. It gives me new energy to work hard towards better India,’ said Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios.

Nominations invited for 1st Indywood Academy Awards

Indywood Academy Awards will cover all the regional industries of Indian cinema

The event will be held on December 1^st at Hitex, Hyderabad

Bengali filmmaker Goutam Ghose is the Executive Jury Panel Chairman

IAA is an integral part of Indywood Film Carnival(IFC) 2018

Hyderabad (28-07-2018):Ushering in a new era for Indian cinema awards, the prestigious Project Indywood, a 10 billion USD initiative that aims to elevate Indian cinema to an international level,is initiating Indywood Academy Awards (IAA) at HITEX, Hyderabad on December 1^st.

The Indywood Academy Awards, an integral part of Indywood Film Carnival 2018, is the first of its kind to move away from the traditional selection processes. Instead, it will rely on a multi-stage selection process that involves 1000+ members of the World Film Society and a 10 member Executive Jury Panel chaired by renowned Bengali filmmaker, music director and cinematographer Goutam Ghose.

The initial entries will be open to all and the contention list will be prepared internally.Following this, the short list nominations will be prepared based on recommendations given by members of the World Film Society. The Executive Jury Panel will take the final decision and declare the winners on December 1st.

 

Indywood Academy Awards aims to promote excellence in different categories of filmmaking, raise global attention for films that are not inherently commercial, and encourage production of quality films on a global stage.

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The 10 member Executive Jury Panel will be headed by renowned Bengali filmmaker, music director and cinematographer Goutam Ghose.

The other members are:Ashish Kulkarni (pioneering animator), B Lenin (National Award winning film director, editor and screenwriter), Madhu Ambat (National Awarding winning cinematographer), Rangan Baradwaj (National Award winning film critic and writer), Ravi Varman Leading cinematographer), Shajith Koyeri (Leading sound designer), Viveck Vaswani (Leading actor, writer and producer), Vivek Agnihotri (Leading director, producer and screenwriter) and Mayur Puri (screenwriter, lyricist, actor and film-maker).

The World Film Society, a forum designed and developed for uniting film sectors across the world for the betterment of the global movie industry, will play a crucial role in preparing the nomination short list. Initiated as part of Project Indywood, World Film Society aims to support the movie industry by creating a close-knit relationship between motion picture associations and their related departments.

The Indywood Academy Awards will recognize excellence in international and Indian regional cinema as part of Project Indywood’s mission to unify global cinema cultures under one roof. Awards will be presented in 26 categories, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Performance in a Leading Role -Foreign Language Film

Entries to the 1^st Indywood Academy Awards can be submitted atwww.indywoodacademyawards.com/ or filmfreeway.com/indywoodacademyawards

AWARD CATEGORIES

• Best Actor in a Leading Role
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Actress in a Leading Role
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Best Child Artist
• Best Screenplay – Original
• Best Screenplay – Adapted
• Best Picture
• Best Director
• Best Children’s Film
• Best Choreography
• Best Animated Feature
• Best Art Direction
• Best Cinematography
• Best Costume Design
• Best Sound Editing
• Best Sound Mixing
• Best Visual Effects
• Best Film Editing
• Best Makeup
• Best Music Direction
• Best Lyrics
• Best Playback Singer – Male
• Best Playback Singer – Female
• Best Foreign Language Film
• Best Performance in a Leading Role – Foreign Language Film

Project Indywood

Conceived by Founder Director Sohan Roy, Project Indywood is a 10 billion USD initiative to elevate Indian cinema to an international level. Through Project Indywood, the NRI investor turnedHollywood director aims to establish 10,000 4K projection multiplex screens, 100,000 2K/4K projection home cinemas, 8K/4K film studios, 100 animation/VFX studios and film schools adhering to international standards.

Indywood Film Carnival

Indywood Film Carnival, a flagship venture of Project Indywood, has been a platform to meet, connect and showcase the best of India’s numerous film industries with national and international stakeholders of cinema. It is the one stop shop for the entire spectrum of film creation including film makers, production houses, technology providers and aspiring artists to converge and make the dream of a unified Indian film industry a reality.

Continuing the success streak of its predecessors but bigger and better than ever, Indywood Film Carnival 2018 will return for its fourth edition from December 1^st to 5th, 2018. The event comprises of the All Lights India International Film Festival (ALIIFF), Indywood Film Market, Indywood Talent Hunt, Billionaires Meet and an array of Excellence Awards.

The Carnival is expected to accelerate the growth of Indian Film Industry through materialising big budget movie projects, co-production ventures and B2B meet generating business worth Rs 500 crore.

The Indian Filmmaker’s Guide To Oscars

Indian films have been a regular affair in major international festivals. And now, achieving the Oscar dream seems plausible too.

Lobbying, promotions, and what not! The race to the Oscars is a mad rush. Indian cinema, despite its rich storytelling tradition, has not been able to decode the Oscar secret. Until now that is!

The All Lights Film Services, which broke into this niche scene 2 years ago, is leading the Indian charge, helping filmmakers attain international recognition at the Oscars.

In a freewheeling chat with Indulge Magazine, Nisha Joseph, Manager of the All Lights Film Services, explains the Oscar process, the hurdles faced by filmmakers and how the organization she represents has made the dream possible for over 10 films from the sub continent in less than 2 years.

 

• First of all, can you explain what all categories are open to foreign filmmakers and the process for a film to be selected into the Oscar contention race?

Under the foreign film category of Oscar, “Best Foreign Language Film” is the only category for the foreign filmmakers.  The entry to this category is just one per country and is recommended by the film federation/film apex body of the country.

But under the mainstream category of Oscar, any filmmaker can send their entries. There are around 26 category competitions under this including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and so on.

For the contention, the movie should primarily go through a series of qualification criteria including Los Angeles Screening for 7 consecutive days and if it is not in English language, it should have English subtitles.

• How difficult is it for an Indian movie to compete with other foreign films?

The key is to get noticed. According to a recent report, an Oscar campaign is said to cost approx $3 million to $10 million which includes mass PR campaign and publicity generation through adverts, holding lobbying parties at LA, New York and the film’s parent country, sending out screeners to Oscar jury members, special review reports / critic reviews in famous film journals and publications etc. While Hollywood movies are funded by big studios who undertake the above mentioned tasks for their respective movies publicity campaign for them, for an Indian movie to cough up such a large amount is extremely difficult.

• Since the start of operations, how has your organization helped Indian films gain international recognition?

We have helped 12 Indian Films so far which have all vied for contention under the mainstream category. We have a full fledged team and industry affiliations to screen the movies in LA and carry out other necessary documentation. Some of these movies include Ballad of Rustom, Kamasutra 3D, Pulimurugan, DAM 999 and Color of Sky. Apart from that, we have recently helped send a Sri Lankan movie for contention, which is a first for the island nation. Besides conducting rigorous campaigns to help movies get into the very prestigious ‘Oscar Race’, we also help Indian filmmakers to take their movies to film festivals, film markets and film awards around this world. Thus we make sure that such movies don’t go unnoticed at any film circuits. We have also launched movie sales, an initiative by the All Lights Film Services, where we help film makers to sell their movie rights in a more customized format, and ensure that they receive a comparatively higher amount.

• What are some of the upcoming projects which your organization is lobbying for?

We are currently working on three films, which include a dance documentary (short) titled ‘The Serpent Wisdom’ from India, a feature film titled ‘The Frozen Fire’ from Sri Lanka and a Malayalam feature film titled ‘Aikarakkonathe Bhishaguaranmar’ (Doctors of Aickarakkonam). All these projects are unique, both in content and production.

• How can a filmmaker approach you?

Filmmakers usually approach us directly, or by participating as delegates or submitting their works for the All Lights India International Film Festival, which we conduct annually at Hyderabad. We forge partnerships with movies screened here that we find special. This year, the 4 day film festival will be held at PVR Inorbit Mall. Interested filmmakers who wish to vie for Oscars can mail us at contact@alfilmservices.com or call us on 9539 000 509.

Pixie World Creations Brings you Glitterati 18 – Gala 1 at Bangalore

Bangalore will soon witness a fashion revolution with Gala 1 of Glitterati 18. It’ll be a Designer Collective Week bought to you by Pixie World Creations.The fashion symposium is going to be a two -day affair of luxurious brands and labels across country on 6th and 7th September 2018.

Ace Choreographer Ramesh Dembla will direct the show whereas Designers like Sadan Pandey, Mr Aslam Khan, Mr Naveen, Miss Tanya many more shall showcase their collection at the do. The luxe affair will be followed by a star-studded after-party where Sandalwood, Bollywood stars will be seen grooving on cities favorite DJ’s beats. Search for perfect Venue ended at XU which is a favorite place for fashion gathering and we are all set for it, Said the Authority.

  

I am excited to be part of Glitterati 18, Looking forward to present an amazing show with Pixie World Creations, Said ace show director Ramesh Dembla.

We target to create glamourous Seasons every quarter to connect whose who from fashion and lifestyle industry and to give a platform to designers, Fashion Institute,models, fashionistas and many more said Mr. Raghu Managing Director of Pixie World Creations. Gala Two of glitterati is slated for November in Goa