Friends at Rachna welcome you to Small Town Film Club in Gangtok.
Small Town Film Club has been intitated by us with the purpose of -
- introducing good films and documentaries to the people of this part of the Himalaya;
- encouraging the youth to start making their own films and providing a platform for showcasing these films;
- networking with like-minded film appreciation clubs worldwide to reach the locally made films to wider audience and bring in films and festivals from elsewhere to the audiences here;
- inviting professionals and independent film-makers to interact with aspiring film-makers and students for technical support and guidance from time to time.
This is a non-profitable venture and our sole aim is to provide a contemporary, non competitive, non-political and liberal platform for using films - fictional or non-fictional, as a mode of expressing regional issues in a creative way.
With the ever increasing accessibility and affordability of new technologies, we believe film-making is a strong tool that the people here, specially the youth, can use to express and share the world as we know it.
We encourage the people here in the eastern Himalaya to try out the form of story-telling that film-making is.
We invite you to share your stories with us.
SUBMITTING YOUR FILM
Category and Genre:
• Short Feature Films (Fictionalized films between 15 to 30 minutes in duration)
• Short Shorts (Fictionalized or Experimental films up to 30 minutes in duration including animated films)
• Documentary Films (Non-Fictional work of any length)
Format:
• The work may originate on any format / medium.
• For screening purposes at Small Town Film Club, we will require you to transfer work to DVD / VCD (PAL).
Selection and Time Frame:
• There is no deadline to submit work for the screenings as the screenings happen every third Saturday of the month.
Submissions:
• Please send a DVD / VCD copy of your work to the address given below.
• You must also submit 5 stills from the film and a photograph of the director, synopsis and a brief on the production and director. Any additional material, such as posters, pamphlets, additional stills etc. will also be welcome.
• You may submit as many works as you want but please submit a separate DVD / VCD for each work.
• Each DVD / VCD should be properly labeled with the title of the work, name of the director, name of the producer or copyright owner, language, and length of the work in minutes.
• A selection committee will view all entries. If your submitted work is selected for screening at Small Town Film Club, you will be notified by e-mail or phone.
• Small Town Film Club is free for genuine film makers. We do not levy any fee for the entries.
Eligibility:
• Films should have been produced in the last five years.
• There are no restrictions on previous screenings of submitted work at other clubs, festivals or its broadcast anywhere in the world. But for local entries from Sikkim, the screenings at Small Town Film Club should be the premiere screening of the work in Gangtok.
• Films should be issue based. Promotionals for commercial ventures and tourism based films are not accepted.
Subtitling:
• Films will normally be screened in their original language/version. Films in language other than English must have subtitles in English.
Small Town Film Club Committee reserves the right to exclude films which are not in conformity with aims of the club, or which could offend the national feelings and susceptibilities of any participating region / community, or are likely to promote racial / communal discrimination.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions, inquiries and suggestions.
Small Town Film Club 
