Asia Peace Film Festival (APFF) Quetta Edition 2019 is all set to celebrate the creative and diverse credentials of Quetta recognising the city’s placement as a ‘Cultural Kaleidoscope’ of Balochistan as the first ever film festival is being organised in Quetta from June 17-19, 2019.

The call for entries for the Creative Quetta Festival is open until June 10 in categories of short film, documentaries, animation and music video.

Quetta is an incomparable point of creative convergence and a melting-pot of diverse cultures of the province and country.

Being a proud custodian of the 9,000-years old Neolithic Mehrgarh civilisation, Balochistan’s premier art of story-telling remains one of the highly acclaimed modes of creative expressions which make storytelling a literary and musical genre as well as a cultural and entertainment event for the people at large

“To strengthen the plural, diverse and inclusive identity of Quetta, the APFF would be bringing together a large number of filmmakers, artists, animators, performers, media wizards, parliamentarians, academics, peace activists and dynamic students of cinematography from all over the country and across Asia,” the festival’s convener Ashraf Kakar said, while addressing media.

Being a proud custodian of 9,000-years old Neolithic Mehragarh civilisation, Balochistan’s premier art of story-telling remains one of the highly acclaimed modes of creative expressions which make story telling a literary and musical genre as well as a cultural and entertainment event for the people at large.

The five awards would be decorated in categories of Best short film, Best animation, Best documentary and Best music video while the themes for Film Competition include Peace, Culture, Heritage, Diversity, Inclusiveness, Co-existence, Peace Building with special focus on Balochistan’s people, culture, arts, music, history and heritage.

Besides film and media students and independent film and documentary makers, students from universities and media schools are encouraged to submit their thesis films, documentaries, interviews, reports, music, videos and animations.

Every entry will be evaluated on basis of relevance of the subject with the festival theme, production standard, production style, sound and visual treatment, production quality, innovation, brevity and type of equipment used. Certificate of acknowledgement of participation would be awarded to all participating teams.