My Cinemaa – Your Voice

Appreciation is the opium of the artist. Nothing else matches the joy an artist experiences when his work is appreciated by an audience. The claps, the whistles, the congratulatory voices can make up for the lack of commercial success to a great extent. Most importantly, being heard and appreciated is the most powerful motivation for an artist to keep going regardless of other factors.

There are a lot of cinephiles in this wide universe who have the talent but lack a platform that gives them the audience they deserve. There are bloggers who write excellent pieces on cinema but go unnoticed in the information overkill of the internet. There are scriptwriters who have it in them to churn out blockbuster after blockbuster but unfortunately, they too are hidden like needles in a haystack. There are some brilliant short-film makers who are dying to find an audience for their films. And the same goes for all other artists – lyricists, editors, cinematographers, actors etc.

We have been through the painful stage when we would write a piece and then wait for those handful of visitors to read it and if we got lucky, comment on it. We understand the heartache caused by work that goes unnoticed. And today, being in a position where we can claim a fairly decent viewership if not a massive one (we’re well on our way to one…by the way ), we would like to extend a hand of support to all those fellow artists out there who are craving for recognition. We’re growing, and we want you to grow with us. Holding hands, rather than pulling each other down. And that’s where My Cinemaa comes in.

My Cinemaa is a new section on CinemaaOnline where we invite contributions from you. Have a review for a film you watched? Have an essay on a cinema related topic? Have a short film? Have a video mashup? If you have any piece of original work related to films, please send it to us at contributions@cinemaaonline.com and we’ll be glad to publish it under the My Cinemaa section once the following conditions are satisfied.

• A disclaimer on the originality of the piece is required on the email. Contributions without the disclaimer will be rejected immediately.
• If your contribution is a text article, it needs to be unpublished at the time it is sent to us and you may not publish it anywhere for 3 days after sending it to us. Please include a disclaimer in your email to that effect. Text contributions without this disclaimer will be rejected immediately. You may publish it elsewhere once it has been published on CinemaaOnline with a backlink to the original article.
• Videos published on the internet prior to being sent to us will be considered for selection. However, please include information about the other sites where the  video has been published prior to being sent to us. We reserve the right to reject video contributions if they have been exposed to a considerable audience through other sources.
• The contribution will have to be passed by our contribution moderation team which includes yours truly along with some other authors on this site.
• We reserve the rights to reject contributions on grounds other than those specified here too and our decision in that regard will be final. No follow-up correspondence will be entertained on the subject. Rejected contributions would be intimated to the sender by email and the sender would then be free to publish the article anywhere. However, we assure you that the moderation process would focus purely on the merit of the work.

Regular contributions through My Cinemaa would automatically imply consideration for being included as an author on CinemaaOnline. Being an author would make you a part of our core team and will entitle you to a say in taking this website forward by being a part of our brainstorming circle.