All Lights India International Film Festival (ALIIFF), Kochi’s most awaited celluloid carnival and Indywood Film Market is all set to run from 15th to 21st of this November. This is South Asia’s biggest film festival. ALIIFF 2015 will have leading artistes and technicians of International reputation attending the festival which includes the Core Team, Advisory Panel, Expert Committee members and also the Brand Ambassadors. Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala Oommen Chandy is the patron for both ALIIFF and Indywood Film Market. The Core team includes the founder director and distinguished film maker Sohan Roy, and renowned director B. Unnikrishnan who is the General Secretary of AIFEC (All India Film Employees Confederation).

The brand ambassadors include veteran Malayalam actor Padmasree Mohanlal who will represent regional Malayalam Cinema. Whereas Tollywood’s Daggubati Venkatesh represents Telugu Cinema and Subodh Bhave from Maharashtra will be representing the Marathi Film Industry. Popular actor cum producer Prosenjit Chatterjee is the festival’s face for Bengali films and Bollywood’s unconventional actress Kalki Koechlin has also been confirmed to serve as the brand ambassador for ALIIFF’S thematic showcase – ‘Cinema for Care’. South Indian angelic beauty Nikki Gilrani has also been roped in as the brand ambassador of ‘Cinema for Children’. The recent addition to this list is actress Manju Warrier, who has been roped in as the face of ‘Cinema for Women'. The festival is a grand celebrity fiesta. The film souk will also be the venue for networking parties, well organized workshops, panel discussions and Trade Expos.

The jury includes Iranian director Khosro Masoumi, Czech film journalist and festival programmer Radovan Holub, Actress cum director Ghazal Masoumi, independent film maker from Israel – Dan Wolman, noted film journalist and researcher Uma da Cunha, Singaporean film maker Kan Lume, Indian writer cum director Anjali Bhushan and Asian film critic and researcher Andronika Martonova for the All Lights India International Film Festival. Stay tuned with Galatta.com for exclusive updates on the festival!