The second edition of the Diorama International Film Festival will be held online from 18 December 2020 to 1 January 2021. The festival will be held around the globe on several platforms such as Filmocracy in the USA; My Open Stage in Turkey; Media Star in Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines; Vodmania in France; and Diorama Live in South East and West Asia.
The organisers will screen 200 films from 64 countries and will also hold webinars in which film personalities from around the world will participate.
Dimple Kapadia, Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Sukhwinder Singh and Udit Narayan are some figures from India who will be participating in the festival. The international participants include actress Laetitia Eido; Hollywood filmmaker Jeffrey Brown; Jonathan Wolf, managing director, American Film Market; Jerome Paillard, executive director, Cannes Film Market; Remi Burrah, CEO, Arte France; and Brian Herskowitz, COO, Digital Film Fund, USA.
The organisers also hold a Film Bazaar with a Script Pitch Fest. This year, eight international film scripts are being pitched to various international production companies. Talking about the festival, Kunal Srivastava, director, Diorama Film Bazaar, said, "We have turned the pandemic into an opportunity not only for the festival and the market but also for our participants. We have enabled them to participate by incurring very low costs and yet achieve the same quality results."