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The '''Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles''' '''(IFFLA)''' is an annual film festival held in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]. Established by Christina Marouda in 2003, as a [[nonprofit organization]] devoted to paving the way for a greater appreciation of [[Indian cinema]]<ref name="telegraphindia.com">[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051217/asp/weekend/story_5592729a.asp Greek-born Christina Marouda has dedicated herself to the cause of promoting Indian cinema overseas], ''[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)]]'', 17 December 2005.</ref><ref>[http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/features/article_1292447.php/Indian_Film_Festival_a_hit_in_Los_Angeles Indian Film Festival a hit in Los Angeles] ''[[Monsters and Critics]]'', 17 April 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.laweekly.com/2007-04-12/film-tv/indian-film-festival-of-los-angeles/ Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles] ''[[LA Weekly]]'', 12 April 2007.</ref> and diverse [[Indian culture|culture]] by providing the public with a selection of films from and about the [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian diaspora]] by Indian and international filmmakers.<ref name=sc>[http://www.screenindia.com/news/dual-highlights-of-6th-indian-film-festival-of-los-angeles/291518/ Dual highlights of 6th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles] ''[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]]'', 8 April 2008.</ref>

It features, documentaries and shorts <ref>[http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/030411/film_iffla.html Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Making Their Grand Debut] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227032900/http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/030411/film_iffla.html |date=2008-02-27 }} ''Asian Arts, [[UCLA]]''.</ref> and presents Grand Jury and Audience Choice awards in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Best Short. The IFFLA's Cinematic Scoring Achievement Award is given to composers, honouring film scores.

==Founding==
Marouda, a film lover of [[Greek people|Greek]] descent established the festival to garner greater appreciation amongst Western audiences to all forms of Cinema in India. Growing up in [[Crete]], she watched several Indian films, growing up with the films of [[Satyajit Ray]] and [[Nargis]], and watched several mainstream [[Bollywood]] films, [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali films]] and [[Tamil cinema|Tamil films]] during a trip to India in 1999. Whilst enjoying the "ride from laughter to crying" that Hindi films can take audiences on, the festival was not looking to promote Bollywood cinema as much for there were already outlets for this. Marouda has expressed her admiration for director [[Mani Ratnam]], [[Rajiv Menon]]'s ''[[Kandukondain Kandukondain]]'' and [[The Apu Trilogy]].<ref name="telegraphindia.com"/>

== Individual festivals ==

=== 2003 ===
The first IFFLA was held in 2003.

;Awards:
Audience Award for Best Picture  - ''[[Kannathil Muthamittal]]'' ([[Mani Ratnam]])

=== 2004 ===

=== 2005 ===

=== 2006 ===

;Awards:

:Cinematic Scoring achievement Award - [[Gingger Shankar]]
::  Shankar is a Tamil violinist who received the award for her contributions to ''[[The Passion of the Christ]].''

=== 2007 ===
April 17–22, 2007 at [[ArcLight Hollywood]].  The festival was attended by [[Quentin Tarantino]].

: Opening Night film : ''[[Provoked (film)|Provoked]]'' ( [[Jag Mundhra]])
: Closing Night film : [[Vanaja (film)]] ([[Rajnesh Domalpalli]]).
: Tribute Honorée : [[Deepti Naval]].

;Awards:

Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature:
VALLEY OF FLOWERS (Pan Nalin)
: Special Mention, VANAJA directed by Rajnesh Domalpalli

Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary:
Q2P (Paromita Vohra)

Grand Jury Prize for Best Short:
TEA BREAK ([[Srinivas Sunderrajan]])
: Special Mention, PRINTED RAINBOW directed by [[Gitanjali Rao]]

Audience Award for Best Feature:
''[[Outsourced (film)|Outsourced]]'' Directed by [[John Jeffcoat]]

Audience Award for Best Documentary:
DIVIDED WE FALL directed by Sharat Raju

Audience Award for Best Short:
MONSOON directed by Shyam Balsé

=== 2008 ===
22–27 April 2008 <ref>[http://www.laweekly.com/2008-04-17/film-tv/putting-the-8220-festive-8221-back-into-film-festival/ Putting the "festive" back into film festival] ''[[LA Weekly]]'', 28 April 2007.</ref> at [[ArcLight Hollywood]].

:Tribute honoree: [[Madhuri Dixit]].<ref name=sc/>
:Opening gala: [[Amal (film)|Amal]] ([[Richie Mehta]])
:Closing gala: [[Mumbai Cutting|Mumbai Cutting...A City Unfolds]]

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;Program:

: Docu shorts (QUAMAR - WORKING TO LIVE, SILENT HUES, UNDER THE AHMEDABAD SKY (Sotto Il Cielo Di Ahmedabad))
: BEFORE THE RAINS, A HOME IN THE SKY (Aevdhese Aabhaal), FOUR WOMEN (Naalu Pennungal), SUPER 30 (preceded by THE LOST RAINBOW)

: Narrative shorts (BEAST, LOVE STORY, THE LOST RAINBOW (Haravilele Indradhanush), MIDNIGHT LOST AND FOUND, THE MORNING RITUAL, THE RETURN (Vaapsi), REWIND, SARI (W)RAP, THREE OF US)

: KISSING COUSINS, THE POOL, LOST MOON (Khoya Khoya Chand), FROZEN
 
: [[Madhuri Dixit]]  tribute: THE DEATH SENTENCE ([[Mrityudand]]), JOHNNY GADDAAR

: Narrative shorts (BEAST, LOVE STORY, THE LOST RAINBOW (Haravilele Indradhanush), MIDNIGHT LOST AND FOUND, THE MORNING RITUAL, THE RETURN (Vaapsi), REWIND, SARI (W)RAP, THREE OF US)

: MY HEART IS CRAZY ([[Dil To Pagal Hai]]), THE SEA WITHIN (Ore Kadal), THE GLOW OF WHITE WOMEN
: AN UNENDING JOURNEY, Shot in Bombay, BOBBY

: Docu Shorts (QUAMAR - WORKING TO LIVE, SILENT HUES, UNDER THE AHMEDABAD SKY (Sotto Il Cielo Di Ahmedabad))
: STARS ON EARTH ([[Taare Zameen Par]]), THE SKY BELOW

=== 2009 ===
April 21–27, 2009.

: Opening Night Gala:  [[The Fakir of Venice]] ([[Anand Surapur]])
: Centerpiece Gala: [[Heaven on Earth (2008 film)|Heaven on Earth]] ([[Deepa Mehta]])
: Closing Gala: [[Yes Madam, Sir]] (docu, [[Megan Doneman]])

;Awards:

Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature:
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)

;Program:

: SIKANDAR - Piyush Jha, FIRAAQ - Nandita Das, AIR INDIA 182 (docu, Sturla Gunnarsson), THE DAMNED RAIN (Gabhricha Paus, Satish Manwar),
: GANDHI, MY FATHER - Feroz Abbas Khan, LITTLE ZIZOU - Sooni Taraporevala, LEAVING HOME: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF INDIAN OCEAN (Docu, Jaideep Varma)

: QUICK GUN MURUGAN - Shashank Ghosh, VIRASAT - Priyadarshan, KANCHIVARAM (Priyadarshan), CHILDREN OF THE PYRE (docu, Rajesh S. Jala),

: [[Sita Sings the Blues]] ([[Nina Paley]]), SIDDHARTH THE PRISONER (Pryas Gupta), BOMBAY SUMMER (Joseph Mathew Varghese), LAMHE (Yash Chopra)
: DHIN TAK DHA (short, Shraddha Pasi), [[Supermen of Malegaon]] (Faiza Ahmad Khan),  NAYA DAUR (B.R. Chopra), 7 DAYS IN SLOW MOTION ([[Umakanth Thumrugoti]])

=== 2010 ===

=== 2011 ===

=== 2012 ===

=== 2013 ===

=== 2014 ===

=== 2015 ===

=== 2016 ===

=== 2017 ===

=== 2018 ===
Audience Award for Best Picture - ''[[Take Off (2017 film)|Take Off]]'' ([[Mahesh Narayanan]])

=== 2019 ===
April 11–14, 2019 at Regal L.A.

Opening Night Gala: [[Andhadhun]]

Centerpiece Gala:

Closing Gala: The Odds

==== Awards <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://latfusa.com/article/2019/4/17th-indian-film-festival-of-los-angeles-winners/|title=17th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Winners Announced {{!}} LATF USA|website=latfusa.com|access-date=2019-06-02}}</ref> ====
Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature: Wisdom of Silence

The audience awards: Vivek/Reason <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indianfilmfestival.org/17th-annual-film-festival-of-los-angeles-announces-closing-night-gala-and-more/|title=17th Annual Film Festival of Los Angeles Announces Closing Night Gala and More {{!}} IFFLA|website=www.indianfilmfestival.org|access-date=2019-06-02}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Film festivals in North and Central America]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.indianfilmfestival.org/ Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080427050240/http://www.indianfilmfestival.org/iffla_galas.html Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles official press release - 12 March 2008]
*[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/news/e3ia51ae029511c6ba9b7cd5c984f93cc5c The Hollywood Reporter (article) - Indian film fest hits L.A. on April 22]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121020082811/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-03-12/news-interviews/27743721_1_short-films-dus-kahaniyaan-directors The Times of India (article) - A cut above the rest?]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055032/http://www.rukusavenue.com/rukus.html-Rukus Avenue a Grand Sponsor of 2008 IFFLA]

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