IFFK – Finest Event of Kerala? Seems so.
The International Film Festival of Kerala aka IFFK must be the finest and the awesomest annual event of the state. We’ll see why.
150+ movies. 8 theaters. 8 days. And thousands of delegates. Now, coordinating something of this intensity is no cakewalk. But it appeared so. Thanks to the wonderful effort by the team at Azinova Technologies. They were the ones who managed the festival logistics with a robust and very efficient system.
It starts with a non-buggy online registration page designed with usability in mind. There was online payment option powered by Paypal. Now there aren’t very many events in Kerala you can really do that for registering.
Upon registering you’ll have a serial number and a passcode. These are to be used to login and make reservations. Easy, fast, simple reservation. The reservation system and interface was so awesome that people ‘reserved’ seats just for the pleasure of doing it!
Your pass/delegate card will have your serial number barcoded. If you’ve made a reservation for a particular show, you walk up to the barcode scanner and wait to see “Access Granted” flash. And you watch the movie, happily all through.
A Wordpress powered blog was setup at iffk.in/blog which served the purpose of a help desk too.
And an SMS Gateway was setup and you could reserve using it. It periodically pushed updates and notifications (like change in schedule).
We know, this ain’t some path-breaking technology that was taken fresh out of the labs. But it was really neat and must be the biggest event in Kerala with a niceness ranking this high!
(We’re sad that we couldn’t grab some screenshots of the stuff we said ‘was awesome’. But still.)
wow..so very informative!
The event, as how it was last year, wasn’t as tech friendly as this year i guess. Lookin forward to more of green room news;)
Congrats on the new venture and wishing all the very best for making it BIG! Yeah, do the samba and play it LOUD!