Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is expanding its efforts to engage the industry side of the business and in June will host its inaugural IFFLA Industry Day.
The festival was founded in 2002 and, now in its third decade of operation, has pivoted to a strategy of year-round programming and events.
The center piece of the IFFLA Industry Day will be a pitch competition that involves selected emerging and established film and TV writers and directors who pitch their upcoming project to a panel of executives from different sectors of the industry.
The executives and a live public audience will provide feedback and heighten the sense of discovery. The winner will receive a $10,000 development grant.
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