ViBGYOR Film Festival is an international short and documentary film festival held annually in Thrissur

Thrissur

This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...

 city in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 state of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. ViBGYOR Film Festival is organised by ViBGYOR Film collective, a coalition of Chetana Media Institute, Nottam Traveling Film Festival, Navachitra Film Society, Visual Search, Moving Republic, Cense, GAIA, with the support of Thrissur Municipal Corporation

Thrissur Municipal Corporation

The Thrissur Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Thrissur in Kerala, India. It is the second-largest city corporation in the state of Kerala by area...

, Zilla Panchayath, Federation of Film Societies of India, Kerala Chalachitra Academy, Information & Public Relations, ActionAid India, ICCO-South Asia and other various Film Societies. The ViBGYOR Film Festival is the largest alternate film festival in India; and second only to the government sponsored Mumbai International Film Festival

Mumbai International Film Festival

Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films , is a festival organised in the city of Mumbai by the 'Film Division', Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. It has been organised since 1990, and focuses on documentary, short and animation...

 (MIFF). The inaugural edition of ViBGYOR was held from February 22–25, 2006 in Thrissur. The Second Edition of ViBGYOR was held from May 10–13, 2007 at the Sangeetha Nataka Akademy Campus (Regional Theatre and Natyagriham), Thrissur

Thrissur

This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...

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Event history

• First Edition: February 2006
• Second Edition: May 2007
• Third Edition: February 2008
• Fourth edition: February 2009
• Fifth edition: February 2010
• Sixth edition: January 2011