CALORIE | Call for Filmmakers
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About
Science Gallery Bengaluru invites filmmakers to create a short film as part of our exhibition-season CALORIE.
A calorie measures energy. But it also measures effort, appetite, and access. It connects the body to the planet, metabolism to industry, and sustenance to inequality. Calorie turns to these linkages—between food and fuel, between work and nourishment—to think about how energy is produced, shared, and spent across scales of life.
We invite filmmakers to respond to these questions through layered, multidisciplinary storytelling. Films might follow the life of a seed, a meal, or a worker—moments where consumption and transformation reveal larger systems of exchange. Each story, however small, hints at how energy shapes the conditions of our lives.
We encourage inventive engagements with the film form—fiction, documentary, essay, or hybrid. We discourage simplistic, didactic, or purely informational approaches.
Proposals will be shortlisted based on:
- Pertinence to the subject
- Creative engagement with the film form and narrative structure
- Clarity of perspective and argument
- The filmmaker’s past work and artistic approach
- Research depth and methodological clarity
- Budgetary feasibility
Timeline
- Call opens: 19 October 2025
- Call closes: 19 November 2025
- Shortlist: 26 November 2025
- Launch: 10 April 2026
Allocation of funds
The shortlisted filmmaker will be provided with a commissioning grant of 12 Lakh INR. The funds will be allocated in three stages:
- Story Development - 25%
- Shooting on the field - 25%
- Final Cut - Post production - 50%