MUMBAI: The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), the oldest festival for Indian cinema in the US, will partner with three prestigious film schools in New York and India to help directors reach a wider platform with their storytelling.

Aimed at helping foster a new generation of filmmakers, the partnership will be with Subhash Ghai‘s Whistling Woods International (WWI)in Mumbai, the Department of Cinema Studies at Tisch, New York University and the New York Film Academy.

WWI, an institute for film, television, animation, and media arts, awards the top short films from its film students each year. These award-winning shorts will now travel to New York and screen at NYIFF each year allowing emerging filmmakers to reach audiences and industry professionals in the US.

For the last two years, NYIFF has teamed up with the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In addition, the New York Film Academy has offered a one-week scholarship valued at $1,575 for film study to an emerging filmmaker whose work will be screened at the film festival.

Organised by the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC), the 11th annual New York Indian Film Festival will run from 4 to May 8 in Manhattan.
This year‘s line-up includes Incerto, Flip, Punha, Daily Soap, Kalapaani and Uss Paar.