Pune: In a significant move, two prominent players in Film and Fashion Industries have announced strategic collaboration to meet the growing demands for talents.
Pune headquartered Badal Saboo Group (BSG), a leading business conglomerate with interests in Fashion, Real Estate Advisory, International Trading and Hospitality, has joined hands with Kerala-based Indywood Film Carnival, an ambitious project of 10 billion US dollar Project Indywood, to provide an international platform for talents especially youngsters to exhibit their skills.
Indywood Founder Director Sohan Roy said that creating pool of talents is the need of the hour as the demand of entertainment industry is rising globally. "India’s entertainment and media sector is expected to exceed 40 billion US dollar by 2020. India is currently one of the biggest cinema markets in the world. By joining hands with Face of India we expect to build one of the largest talent hunts in the country. It will be an ideal platform to encourage and promote talents," he said.
Indywood Film Carnival (http://www.indywood.co.in/) is one of the largest film based events in the country. The 3rd edition of Indywood Film Carnival will be held at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, from December 1 to 4.
Badal Saboo, Chairman, BSG and Face of India, said “Our country is blessed with lot of talents and skills. However many of them doesn't get a chance to showcase their talents. By partnering with Indywood we believe that more people would be benefited and utilize the platform wisely.”
The state wise winners will compete at the national level for the Face of India title at the Grand Finale in Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad. Besides the winners of this year’s Face of India title will get direct entry to the Face of Asia Model hunt. They would also get a chance of winning a feature film deal.
Face of India has also roped in Alesia Raut (Supermodel & Fashion Choreographer) and her team, to help coordinate the entire hunt. The aspiring participants can send register via www.faceofindia.in/indywood starting 05 October 2017. Entries will remain open till 10th of November 2017.