IGNITE Film Festival is a Lighthouse initiative to promote and encourage young filmmakers, storytellers and creative individuals. The festival also aims at creating awareness by highlighting various social, political and humanist issues through the showcased films.

IFF is a theme based film festival which will be held every year with a particular theme. Participating films need to incorporate the theme creatively so as to bring freshness, originality and impact in front of judges. The judgment and finalist selection will be made on the basis of uniqueness in execution of the theme, storytelling and presentation style.