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IDPA presents Mumbai’s first student film competition
MUMBAI: Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) has joined hands with KC College’s Bachelor of Media Management (BMM) students for Roll, Take, Turn, which has been organised by the latter.
Roll, Take, Turn is Mumbai’s first Student Short Film competition featuring the best of Mumbai’s student films.
IDPA reaches out to young people entering the profession with its special student membership and IDPA is sponsoring the Students Film Competition.
The Best Films were aired on 23 July from 10 am to 2 pm at KC College in Mumbai.
IDPA has also called for entries for IDPA’s Awards For Excellence 2005. Founded in 1956, IDPA is India’s single largest association of producers of documentaries, animation films, advertisement films and TV programmes. Each year IDPA recognises and rewards the talents of Indian short film makers with these awards. Films produced between 1 January 2004 and 30 June 2005 are eligible.
The award categories are as below:
Documentary Short Fiction (upto 60 minutes) Animation
Commercials Public Service Communication Corporate Communication
Student Documentary Student Short Fiction (upto 60 minutes)
Student Animation
Techincal Awards
Technical award for Cinematography
Technical award for Sound Design
Technical award for Editing
Technical award for Script writing
The Ezra Mir Lifetime Achievement Award for a senior professional in recognition of service to the documentary film genre in India will also be given out.
Details of the Awards are available at http://www.idpaindia.org.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
