Zee Group calls for Participation in the Aesthetics Youth Conclave

by Shrutee K/DNS

 Winners of film competition to take home a cash prize upto INR 100,000/-

India, December 31, 2018: The Essel Group and Zee Learn have called for entries to participate in Aesthetics 2019 Youth conclave for VFX, animation and gaming students and industry professionals.This Conclave will offer students and budding professionals an opportunity to interact with industry experts from the fields of 3D Animation, VFX, Graphic Design and Gaming and understand from them latest trends and technologies in the space. This unique platform will also provide an opportunity for students and budding professional to showcase their skills in short film making in different categories and win awards.

The event is scheduled in Mumbai from 10th to 12th January 2019. Participants will need to pay Rs 10,000 to attend that includes 3-day accommodation (shared basis), food etc.Industry speakers such as Tarun Katial, Head-Zee5 & Sidharth Balakrishna, Head - Group Strategy & Innovation, Essel (Zee) Group, and experts from Nazara (India’s largest Gaming Company), Twitter, Gist (A Major AI Company) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Accenture, Adobe, etc are likely to be part of the event. Live Action Entries for the Short Film competition should be a maximum duration of 20 minutes while 2D Animation, 3D Animation, Stop-motion, VFX entries can be of maximum 10-minute duration.

A jury consisting of eminent experts will evaluate the films on parameters like Story, Screenplay, communication design, look and feel, and the technical execution before choosing the winners who have a chance to take home a cash prize of up to Rs. One Lakh.

Following are the film submission details:  

Categories: Live Action, 2D Animation, 3D Animation, VFX, Stop Motion

Video output: .mov (H264 compression) only

Frame size: Minimum 720 x 480 

Do not use images / Videos / Sound / logo / trademark for which you don’t have rights to use or the copyright

Minimum 5 High Resolution (1440X1024 dpi) best stills of the film

Submission date: Jan 3, 2019

About Zee Learn Limited: Zee Learn Limited (ZLL) is India’s leading company in education segment with the fastest growing chain of K-12 schools – Mount Litera Zee School and Asia’s No 1 chain of pre-school network – Kidzee in its portfolio providing end to end education management and advisory services.  Mount Litera Zee Schools is now the fastest growing chain of schools in the private-unaided category with more than 120 schools in 100+ cities. Kidzee with 1900 centers in more than 750 cities is India’s largest Pre School network.

Zee Learn Limited has also developed Zee Institute of Media Arts (ZIMA), a Film and Journalism training institute that offers courses in Direction, Acting, Sound, Editing, Production, Cinematography and more. Another offering from the company, Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA) is the nation’s first full-fledged Classical and Digital Animation Training Academy that trains youth in Animation, VFX and Design in more than 15 cities across the country. www.zeelearn.com and www.zica.org