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GIKI All Pakistan Media Fest 2010
« on: April 18, 2010, 09:57:47 PM »
GIKI All Pakistan Media Fest 2010 

The Media Fest '10 was held from 26th - 28th February. It was a highly anticipated event and saw a great number of participants from all over the country. The event saw participants battling it out in the following six categories: Animation design, Poster Design competition, Short Film Competition, Photo-Essay competition, On spot Photography competition, On spot Short Commercial competition.

The event commenced with the Opening ceremony at 6pm on Friday. The topics were announced for the on-spot photography and short commercial competitions that were supposed to be submitted by early morning on the last day of the event.

The topics in the photography category were: Colors of life in Black and White, Light of the Night, Dynamic world - photoset in time, The best pictures are the funniest and Panorama.
The topics for the short commercial were: BATA, Gaye Soap, Pampers and Cerelac.

Then screening of some of the entries in the short film competition and the animation competition was done till 11 pm in AHA Auditorium.

The second day of the event began with a hiking trip and participants were shown around GIKI.Screening of more short films was then done in the afternoon and then the movie "Kung fu Panda" was played in the evening. The gala dinner took place at 7pm in central workshop, where event videos and candid interviews were played.

The final day of the event began with the screening of the remaining short film competition videos. Then the entries of the on spot photography competition were screened followed by short commercials. This was followed by closing ceremony at 6.30 pm. With this, a highly successful and richly entertaining Media Fest '10 came to a close.

In the short films category the winners were Riphah International Institute of Media Sciences for their video titled "Bab-e-Jannat".
In the poster design category, Air University emerged victorious.
Best animation went to "IMS-Peshawar".
In the short commercial category top prize was bagged by the Riphah International Institute of Media Sciences.