Former Cannes film market director Jerome Paillard, Indian actor and producer Rana Daggubati and Nicole Guillemet who was co-director of the Sundance Film Festival have joined the advisory board of the inaugural Cinevesture International Film Festival in India.
The advisory board also includes Indian filmmaker Ajitpal Singh, Bangladeshi director Nuhash Humayun and “Make Money Screenwriting” series author Julian Friedmann.
The festival will take place in Chandigarh, northern India, March 27-31. Bina Paul, who was artistic director at the International Film Festival of Kerala for more than a decade, will fulfil that role at the Chandigarh event. Film critic Namrata Joshi serves as market curator.
The festival is the brainchild of Nina Lath Gupta, who previously headed Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest co-production market, from 2006 to 2018. Cinevesture’s focus is on building the business of film and addressing the needs of a producer at various stages of filmmaking.
“There is...
The advisory board also includes Indian filmmaker Ajitpal Singh, Bangladeshi director Nuhash Humayun and “Make Money Screenwriting” series author Julian Friedmann.
The festival will take place in Chandigarh, northern India, March 27-31. Bina Paul, who was artistic director at the International Film Festival of Kerala for more than a decade, will fulfil that role at the Chandigarh event. Film critic Namrata Joshi serves as market curator.
The festival is the brainchild of Nina Lath Gupta, who previously headed Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest co-production market, from 2006 to 2018. Cinevesture’s focus is on building the business of film and addressing the needs of a producer at various stages of filmmaking.
“There is...
- 2/5/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Bangladeshi director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is attending Mumbai Film Festival with feature-length drama Something Like An Autobiography, which is playing in the festival’s Icons: South Asia section after premiering in the Jiseok section at Busan.
The project is the first in a series of 12 films that Farooki is co-producing with Bangladeshi streaming platform Chorki, among which he will direct the first two installments, with other established and newcomer filmmakers from Bangladesh directing the other ten films. Farooki recently wrapped the second film in the series, Last Defenders Of Monogamy, starring Chanchal Chowdhury in the story of married man and father who finds his firm belief in monogamy being tested.
Farooki and his wife, actress Nusrat Imrose Tisha, both star in the first film in the anthology, playing a semi-autobiographical version of themselves – a husband-and-wife filmmaking couple trying for a baby after the wife has endured several years of being...
The project is the first in a series of 12 films that Farooki is co-producing with Bangladeshi streaming platform Chorki, among which he will direct the first two installments, with other established and newcomer filmmakers from Bangladesh directing the other ten films. Farooki recently wrapped the second film in the series, Last Defenders Of Monogamy, starring Chanchal Chowdhury in the story of married man and father who finds his firm belief in monogamy being tested.
Farooki and his wife, actress Nusrat Imrose Tisha, both star in the first film in the anthology, playing a semi-autobiographical version of themselves – a husband-and-wife filmmaking couple trying for a baby after the wife has endured several years of being...
- 11/4/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Film Bazaar: Kanwal Sethi’s drama Once Again and creative documentary Buddhagram won the inaugural Facebook Awards at the close of this year’s Film Bazaar (November 20-24).
Once Again, which screened in Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab, stars Neeraj Kabi and Shefali Shah in the story of a romance between a widow and an ageing star.
Kabir Mehta’s Buddhagram, which was selected for the Film Bazaar Recommends section, is a mixed media verite style of documentary about flamboyant Goan cricketer Buddhadev Mangaldas. The two Facebook awards came with $10,000 of vouchers for Facebook advertising.
India’s Prasad Labs also gave out two awards, which cover the costs of each project for digital intermediate. Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep And The Sacred Mountain, which was filmed in the rare Pahari language, won the Prasad award for a Wip Lab project, while Sanalkumar Sasidharan’s Sexy Durga won the Prasad award in Film Bazaar Recommends.
Sexy...
Once Again, which screened in Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab, stars Neeraj Kabi and Shefali Shah in the story of a romance between a widow and an ageing star.
Kabir Mehta’s Buddhagram, which was selected for the Film Bazaar Recommends section, is a mixed media verite style of documentary about flamboyant Goan cricketer Buddhadev Mangaldas. The two Facebook awards came with $10,000 of vouchers for Facebook advertising.
India’s Prasad Labs also gave out two awards, which cover the costs of each project for digital intermediate. Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep And The Sacred Mountain, which was filmed in the rare Pahari language, won the Prasad award for a Wip Lab project, while Sanalkumar Sasidharan’s Sexy Durga won the Prasad award in Film Bazaar Recommends.
Sexy...
- 11/24/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Rlj Entertainment picks up Kickboxer: Vengeance; CinemaCon honour for Bryce Dallas Howard; and more…
Focus Features will release Jeff Nichols’ upcoming drama Loving in the Us in an exclusive release on November 4 followed by wide expansion a week later.
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage in the 1950s led to banishment, prison, and finally Supreme Court vindication.
Focus paid $9m for Loving for North America and most of the world in Berlin after CAA showed early footage. Nichols’ sci-fi drama Midnight Special starring Michael Shannon, Edgerton, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, and Kirsten Dunst opens this week in the Us via Warner Bros.
Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise that made him famous. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath. The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, [link...
Focus Features will release Jeff Nichols’ upcoming drama Loving in the Us in an exclusive release on November 4 followed by wide expansion a week later.
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage in the 1950s led to banishment, prison, and finally Supreme Court vindication.
Focus paid $9m for Loving for North America and most of the world in Berlin after CAA showed early footage. Nichols’ sci-fi drama Midnight Special starring Michael Shannon, Edgerton, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, and Kirsten Dunst opens this week in the Us via Warner Bros.
Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise that made him famous. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath. The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, [link...
- 3/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Rlj Entertainment picks up Kickboxer: Vengeance; CinemaCon honour for Bryce Dallas Howard; and more…
Focus features will release Jeff Nichols’ upcoming race drama Loving in the Us in an exclusiverelease on November 4 followed by wide expansion a week late.
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage in the 1950s led to banishment, prison and finally a Supreme Court triumph.
Focus pounced on worldwide rights in a $9m deal in Berlin after CAA showed footage. Nichols’ sci-fi drama Midnight Special starring Michael Shannon, Edgerton, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, and Kirsten Dunst opens this week in the Us via Warner Bros.
Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise that made him famous. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath. The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, [link...
Focus features will release Jeff Nichols’ upcoming race drama Loving in the Us in an exclusiverelease on November 4 followed by wide expansion a week late.
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage in the 1950s led to banishment, prison and finally a Supreme Court triumph.
Focus pounced on worldwide rights in a $9m deal in Berlin after CAA showed footage. Nichols’ sci-fi drama Midnight Special starring Michael Shannon, Edgerton, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, and Kirsten Dunst opens this week in the Us via Warner Bros.
Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise that made him famous. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath. The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, [link...
- 3/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: CinemaCon honour for Bryce Dallas Howard; Brightlight Pictures staffs up; and more…
Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath.
The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, Georges St-Pierre, and Cain Velasquez. Logothetis produced with Nicholas Celozzi, Ted Field, Allen Knudson, Samuel Cory Timpson and Rob Hickman, who arranged the majority of the financing.
Rlj brokered the deal with Logothetis, Field, Brian O-Shea, and Mike Weber on behalf of the film. Kickboxer: Vengeance will open in theatres and on VOD later this year.
Bryce Dallas Howard will receive the CinemaCon Award For Excellence In Acting in Las Vegas on April 14. The official convention of The National Association Of Theatre Owners takes place from April 11-14 at Caesars Palace. Howard’s next film is the August 12 release of Peter’s Dragon...
Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath.
The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, Georges St-Pierre, and Cain Velasquez. Logothetis produced with Nicholas Celozzi, Ted Field, Allen Knudson, Samuel Cory Timpson and Rob Hickman, who arranged the majority of the financing.
Rlj brokered the deal with Logothetis, Field, Brian O-Shea, and Mike Weber on behalf of the film. Kickboxer: Vengeance will open in theatres and on VOD later this year.
Bryce Dallas Howard will receive the CinemaCon Award For Excellence In Acting in Las Vegas on April 14. The official convention of The National Association Of Theatre Owners takes place from April 11-14 at Caesars Palace. Howard’s next film is the August 12 release of Peter’s Dragon...
- 3/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
2015 was a year in which many a filmmaker took objection to the rather strict censor guidelines being imposed by censor chief Phalaj Nilhani. However with the start of the New Year, the I&B Ministry has given all those who suffered under the Cbfc's scissors a ray of hope, with the announcement of launching a special committee headed by the film-maker Shyam Benegal, to suggest measures to help Board members understand the nuances of film certification. According to a press note released by the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry, a committee headed by Shri Shyam Benegal has been constituted to suggest the paradigm for ensuring such a milieu. The recommendations of this Committee are expected to provide a holistic framework and enable those tasked with the work of certification of films to discharge their responsibilities keeping in view this framework. Apart from this, the Committee would be expected to take...
- 1/2/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Shanker Raman’s Gurgaon and Rahul Jain’s Machines both picked up Prasad Digital Intermediate Awards at the close of Film Bazaar on Nov 25.
Both projects were screened in Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab.
Gurgaon, selected in the fiction section, revolves around the impact that sudden wealth has on a family living on the outskirts of Delhi.
Jain’s Machines, which screened in the documentary section, presents a sensory experience of working conditions in a textile factory in Gujarat.
The awards were presented by Work-in-Progress Lab mentors Marco Mueller and Derek Malcolm. “Every year I come here, the documentaries get just a little bit better and this year, in particular, has been a very good year,” Malcolm said.
Nina Lath Gupta, MD of India’s National Film Development Corp, said: “The response at the ninth edition of Film Bazaar has been overwhelming. It’s been great to see Indian cinema grow. For me, every...
Both projects were screened in Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab.
Gurgaon, selected in the fiction section, revolves around the impact that sudden wealth has on a family living on the outskirts of Delhi.
Jain’s Machines, which screened in the documentary section, presents a sensory experience of working conditions in a textile factory in Gujarat.
The awards were presented by Work-in-Progress Lab mentors Marco Mueller and Derek Malcolm. “Every year I come here, the documentaries get just a little bit better and this year, in particular, has been a very good year,” Malcolm said.
Nina Lath Gupta, MD of India’s National Film Development Corp, said: “The response at the ninth edition of Film Bazaar has been overwhelming. It’s been great to see Indian cinema grow. For me, every...
- 11/26/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Foreign and local producers who want to shoot in India now have a central agency they can contact, the Film Facilitation Office (Ffo), to help with obtaining shooting permissions and sourcing locations and crew.
Housed under Film Bazaar organisers, the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), the new body will oversee a ‘single window clearance’ system for shooting permits, working with India’s seven union territories and 29 states.
India’s Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, and Shri Sunil Arora, secretary in the I&B Ministry, will formally announce the launch of the Ffo at Film Bazaar today.
“We need a fully fledged film facilitiation office that coordinates with the states, with the production industry, with those bodies that have advanced technical facilities – and does that kind of hand-holding without being overly intrusive,” Arora told Screen.
“That is why, instead of housing the office within a typical government set-up, we’ve housed...
Housed under Film Bazaar organisers, the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), the new body will oversee a ‘single window clearance’ system for shooting permits, working with India’s seven union territories and 29 states.
India’s Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, and Shri Sunil Arora, secretary in the I&B Ministry, will formally announce the launch of the Ffo at Film Bazaar today.
“We need a fully fledged film facilitiation office that coordinates with the states, with the production industry, with those bodies that have advanced technical facilities – and does that kind of hand-holding without being overly intrusive,” Arora told Screen.
“That is why, instead of housing the office within a typical government set-up, we’ve housed...
- 11/21/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Filmmaker Kiran Rao will spearhead a new and unique film centre in Mumbai 'FilmBay', a National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) initiative to be launched by the end of this year. The 'FilmBay' will provide an alternative, exhibition space for independent and art-house cinema and documentaries that may never get a traditional commercial Bollywood release. Kiran Rao, as Creative Director, will be supported by renowned members of the industry, Anupama Chopra, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Rohan Sippy,who will bring in their collective expertise to make the Film Centre a diverse, eclectic hub for debate and discussion. Being a collaboration between Nfdc and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the 'FilmBay' will be based at an existing theatre at Sherly Rajan Village (Bandra west), which will be completely revamped by Nfdc and will be equipped with an exhibition hall, a 100-seater digital cinema, a reading and research library, a bookshop and a cafeteria.
- 3/25/2015
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Indian filmmaker Kiran Rao has been appointed creative director of Mumbai’s first arthouse cinema, FilmBay, an initiative of India’ National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), to be launched by the end of this year.
The FilmBay aims to screen independent and arthouse films and documentaries that are otherwise unlikely to receive a traditional theatrical release in India.
It will also serve as a discussion and educational hub for the local film industry and cinephile audience. It will also hold screenings for local school children.
Rao will be supported by Mumbai film festival director Anupama Chopra and filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Rohan Sippy.
FilmBay will be based at an existing theatre at Sherly Rajan Village in the Bandra West district of Mumbai. Nfdc will revamp the venue, which will be equipped with an exhibition hall, 100-seater digital cinema, a reading and research library, a bookshop and a cafeteria.
The venue has...
The FilmBay aims to screen independent and arthouse films and documentaries that are otherwise unlikely to receive a traditional theatrical release in India.
It will also serve as a discussion and educational hub for the local film industry and cinephile audience. It will also hold screenings for local school children.
Rao will be supported by Mumbai film festival director Anupama Chopra and filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Rohan Sippy.
FilmBay will be based at an existing theatre at Sherly Rajan Village in the Bandra West district of Mumbai. Nfdc will revamp the venue, which will be equipped with an exhibition hall, 100-seater digital cinema, a reading and research library, a bookshop and a cafeteria.
The venue has...
- 3/25/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Day-And-Date Release of Nfdc’s internationally acclaimed Punjabi language feature film Qissa, directed by Anup Singh and starring Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome, Rasika Duggal. Post Qissa’s successful global release across Germany, France and Netherlands and international acclaim garnered in various film festivals across the world, Qissa shall now be released by Nfdc in select theatres across key cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh, Chennai and Kolkata on February 20, 2015, the same day that it will be available to buy on DVD or on Nfdc’s newly launched Video-on-Demand site www.cinemasofindia.com.
Nfdc’s diverse portfolio of classics and contemporary art-house films, including Qissa, will be available for online streaming on subscription and pay-per-view basis on the VoD site.
This Day-And-Date release will mark the first time that a feature film of such international acclaim is being distributed in theaters and simultaneously on home viewing and pay-per-view in India.
Nfdc’s diverse portfolio of classics and contemporary art-house films, including Qissa, will be available for online streaming on subscription and pay-per-view basis on the VoD site.
This Day-And-Date release will mark the first time that a feature film of such international acclaim is being distributed in theaters and simultaneously on home viewing and pay-per-view in India.
- 2/3/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s No Man’s Land was awarded the $16,000 (Rs1m) Nfdc Development Award at the close of the Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 20-24).
Produced by Farooki’s Dhaka-based Chabial, the film is about a member of the Ahmadiyya minority in Pakistan, which is discriminated against by the Sunni majority, and how he struggles with his identity in both his home country and the Us.
Meanwhile, Raam Reddy’s Thithi won an award for Digital Intermediate services at Prasad Efx under the ‘Work-in-Progress Feature’ category. Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla’s Proposition For A Revolution took the same award in the Work-in-Progress documentary section.
Film Bazaar also introduced three $16,000 (Rs1m) interest-free repayable loans for projects seeking completion financing in the ‘Film Bazaar Recommends’ section.
Indian filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra extended a $16,000 loan to Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor, on behalf of Vinod Chopra Films and Rajkumar Hirani. In addition...
Produced by Farooki’s Dhaka-based Chabial, the film is about a member of the Ahmadiyya minority in Pakistan, which is discriminated against by the Sunni majority, and how he struggles with his identity in both his home country and the Us.
Meanwhile, Raam Reddy’s Thithi won an award for Digital Intermediate services at Prasad Efx under the ‘Work-in-Progress Feature’ category. Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla’s Proposition For A Revolution took the same award in the Work-in-Progress documentary section.
Film Bazaar also introduced three $16,000 (Rs1m) interest-free repayable loans for projects seeking completion financing in the ‘Film Bazaar Recommends’ section.
Indian filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra extended a $16,000 loan to Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor, on behalf of Vinod Chopra Films and Rajkumar Hirani. In addition...
- 11/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
A still from Vinay Shukla and Khushboo Ranka’s Proposition for a Revolution
Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab has announced its selection in Fiction and Documentary categories.
The Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab gives filmmakers a chance to have their rough-cut feature-length films viewed by an eminent panel of international advisers. These advisers have a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker with an intention to help the filmmaker achieve an accomplished final cut of the film.
Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 will be held from November 20-24 in Goa Mariott Resort.
Work-in-Progress Lab 2014:
Fiction :
Bokul by Reema Borah Highway by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Nil Battey Sannata by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Tathagat by Manav Kaul Thithi by Raam Reddy
Documentary :
12 Acres by Rajesh Thind Maidaan (Home Ground) by Kavita Carneiro Nehi Mozo Hanü Dizo Le (Without You, I am Nothing) by Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar Proposition for a Revolution by Khushboo Ranka...
Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab has announced its selection in Fiction and Documentary categories.
The Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab gives filmmakers a chance to have their rough-cut feature-length films viewed by an eminent panel of international advisers. These advisers have a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker with an intention to help the filmmaker achieve an accomplished final cut of the film.
Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 will be held from November 20-24 in Goa Mariott Resort.
Work-in-Progress Lab 2014:
Fiction :
Bokul by Reema Borah Highway by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Nil Battey Sannata by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Tathagat by Manav Kaul Thithi by Raam Reddy
Documentary :
12 Acres by Rajesh Thind Maidaan (Home Ground) by Kavita Carneiro Nehi Mozo Hanü Dizo Le (Without You, I am Nothing) by Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar Proposition for a Revolution by Khushboo Ranka...
- 11/8/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Described as a defining film in the history of Indian cinema, The Lunchbox which has won numerous domestic and international accolades in its slight over a year’s run at the box office wins yet another award. Produced by Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap, and Guneet Monga, Ritesh Batra’s directorial debut which stars Irrfan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur was recently conferred the ‘Film with the Best Return on Investment’ award at the Star Box Office India’s 2014 awards. Mr. Vivek Rangachari, Producer, Dar Motion Pictures and Guneet Monga from Sikhya Entertainment were present on the occasion to receive the award.
Critically acclaimed and globally loved The Lunchbox is a story about a mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Critically acclaimed and globally loved The Lunchbox is a story about a mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
- 10/18/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg veteran was most recently MD of Berlin-based Primehouse.
The film communities of Germany and India, in particular, as well as further afield will be saddened to hear the news of the sudden and unexpected death of Frank Stehling.
Stehling, 57, died on Wed, 2 July, following a heart attack.
Active in the film industry for over 25 years as an author, director and producer, Stehling also worked for 10 years at the Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (later known as Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg) where he was responsible for the production funding department and the Media-funded programmes.
His time at the film funder also saw him serving as a board member of the Berlinale Talent Campus and masterminding the Berlin Today Award, which has become an international launchpad for new talents.
In 2005, he left the Medienboard to set up Berlin-based Primehouse which developed the links between film, television and interactive media to provide producers with financial and marketing support during the project development phase.
In...
The film communities of Germany and India, in particular, as well as further afield will be saddened to hear the news of the sudden and unexpected death of Frank Stehling.
Stehling, 57, died on Wed, 2 July, following a heart attack.
Active in the film industry for over 25 years as an author, director and producer, Stehling also worked for 10 years at the Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (later known as Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg) where he was responsible for the production funding department and the Media-funded programmes.
His time at the film funder also saw him serving as a board member of the Berlinale Talent Campus and masterminding the Berlin Today Award, which has become an international launchpad for new talents.
In 2005, he left the Medienboard to set up Berlin-based Primehouse which developed the links between film, television and interactive media to provide producers with financial and marketing support during the project development phase.
In...
- 7/8/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is releasing Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely on DVD and Video-On-Demand (www.cinemasofindia.com) platforms under the organisation’s distribution brand, Cinemas of India, on June 13.
Miss Lovely will be the first film to be released by Nfdc on both platforms outside of its own catalogue of more than 300 films across 21 Indian languages.
Nfdc’s Home Video catalogue includes 87 restored and digitized titles and is distributed Pan India by its retail partner Shemaroo. Miss Lovely film DVDs will be available across all large format stores, leading bookstores pan India and websites like Flipkart.com priced at Inr 299.
As for the Video-on-Demand platform, the film will be available for streaming in India and subcontinent regions- Nepal and Bhutan priced at Usd 1.99 (Pay-per-View). The website currently hosts more than 75 of its classic and award winning titles for streaming in Free, Pay-Per-View, and Subscription (SVoD) on a monthly basis.
Miss Lovely will be the first film to be released by Nfdc on both platforms outside of its own catalogue of more than 300 films across 21 Indian languages.
Nfdc’s Home Video catalogue includes 87 restored and digitized titles and is distributed Pan India by its retail partner Shemaroo. Miss Lovely film DVDs will be available across all large format stores, leading bookstores pan India and websites like Flipkart.com priced at Inr 299.
As for the Video-on-Demand platform, the film will be available for streaming in India and subcontinent regions- Nepal and Bhutan priced at Usd 1.99 (Pay-per-View). The website currently hosts more than 75 of its classic and award winning titles for streaming in Free, Pay-Per-View, and Subscription (SVoD) on a monthly basis.
- 6/10/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The India Pavilion at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, being organized by The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), will be inaugurated on May 15. Kamal Haasan, Chairman, Ficci Media and Entertainment Committee – South, will lead the Indian delegation at Cannes along with Ramesh Sippy, Uday Chopra, Ranvir Shorey and Mallika Sherawat.
Uday Chopra, who is the co-producer of Cannes’ opening film Grace of Monaco, will later join executive producer Jonathan Reiman and screenwriter Arash Amel on a panel discussion about the making of the film.
This will be followed by a panel discussion with the cast and crew of Titli including director Kanu Behl, actor Ranvir Shorey and international representative Guneet Monga.
May 16 will see a panel discussion with industry representatives from key countries focusing on potential co-production arrangement with India. Nina Lath Gupta, Managing Director, Nfdc and Franck Priot, Deputy Director, Film France will be joined by representatives from Canada,...
Uday Chopra, who is the co-producer of Cannes’ opening film Grace of Monaco, will later join executive producer Jonathan Reiman and screenwriter Arash Amel on a panel discussion about the making of the film.
This will be followed by a panel discussion with the cast and crew of Titli including director Kanu Behl, actor Ranvir Shorey and international representative Guneet Monga.
May 16 will see a panel discussion with industry representatives from key countries focusing on potential co-production arrangement with India. Nina Lath Gupta, Managing Director, Nfdc and Franck Priot, Deputy Director, Film France will be joined by representatives from Canada,...
- 5/15/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 7th edition of Cinemascapes 2013 was held on 19th & 20Th October, 2013 in Hotel Novotel, Mumbai. Like every year, the event based on Cinematic Tourism was organized by Cross Section Media Pvt. Ltd. and supported by The Film & Television Producers Guild of India Ltd. Confederation of Indian Industries (Cii) were the Industry Association Partners while Ernst & Young Llp were Knowledge partners.
The event was inaugurated by Hon’ble Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Shri Manish Tewari. The Minister, in his keynote address, reflected on the need to leverage the growing synergy between the entertainment and tourism industries to optimum effect & the introduction of a Single Window Clearance System which will hopefully simplify and streamline the process of availing permissions for shooting in India, amongst a host of other issues. Guild President Shri Mukesh Bhatt spoke about mutually beneficial relationship between Cinema & Tourism which was leading to a win win situation for the stakeholders.
The event was inaugurated by Hon’ble Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Shri Manish Tewari. The Minister, in his keynote address, reflected on the need to leverage the growing synergy between the entertainment and tourism industries to optimum effect & the introduction of a Single Window Clearance System which will hopefully simplify and streamline the process of availing permissions for shooting in India, amongst a host of other issues. Guild President Shri Mukesh Bhatt spoke about mutually beneficial relationship between Cinema & Tourism which was leading to a win win situation for the stakeholders.
- 10/28/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
India has selected Gyan Correa’s The Good Road as its entry for the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards, while Bangladesh has submitted Mostofa S. Farooki’s Television.
The Indian selection came as a surprise as Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox had appeared to be a frontrunner in recent months. Warmly received at this year’s Cannes and Telluride film festivals, Batra’s Mumbai-set love story has been sold widely by sales agent The Match Factory and has a Us distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, on board.
Produced by the National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), the Gujarati-language The Good Road tells the story of three sets of people travelling through the Kachchh region of Gujarat. The cast includes Sonali Kulkarni and Ajay Gehi, while technical talent includes Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty and DoP Amitabha Singh.
The film was selected by a committee appointed by the Film Federation of India (Ffi), which was headed by Bengali...
The Indian selection came as a surprise as Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox had appeared to be a frontrunner in recent months. Warmly received at this year’s Cannes and Telluride film festivals, Batra’s Mumbai-set love story has been sold widely by sales agent The Match Factory and has a Us distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, on board.
Produced by the National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), the Gujarati-language The Good Road tells the story of three sets of people travelling through the Kachchh region of Gujarat. The cast includes Sonali Kulkarni and Ajay Gehi, while technical talent includes Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty and DoP Amitabha Singh.
The film was selected by a committee appointed by the Film Federation of India (Ffi), which was headed by Bengali...
- 9/23/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Six projects have been selected by the Nfdc (National Film Development Corporation, India) for the 2013 Screenwriters Lab, which is relocating to Toronto.
The Lab has previously been hosted by Locarno and Venice festivals, each having hosted two editions of the Screenwriters workshop.
The six projects, selected from more than 350 applications, will first be work-shopped in Toronto and further in Goa this November before being presented in the annual Film Bazaar Co-Pro Market.
The projects include:
Daily Nikhil MahajanDark Waters Bela NegiMother Goddess Coaching Classes Varun GroverMy Brother the Salesman and I Shanker RamanT for Taj Mahal Ashish Aryan, Sachin LadiaThe Spark Rajesh Jala
Cameron Bailey, artistic director of Tiff, said: “Indian independent cinema is taking the world by storm and it all begins with its screenwriters. We’re proud to welcome this workshop to the Toronto International Film Festival, and support the Nfdc’s important work.”
Nina Lath Gupta, MD of Nfdc , said: “Nfdc is delighted to be expanding...
The Lab has previously been hosted by Locarno and Venice festivals, each having hosted two editions of the Screenwriters workshop.
The six projects, selected from more than 350 applications, will first be work-shopped in Toronto and further in Goa this November before being presented in the annual Film Bazaar Co-Pro Market.
The projects include:
Daily Nikhil MahajanDark Waters Bela NegiMother Goddess Coaching Classes Varun GroverMy Brother the Salesman and I Shanker RamanT for Taj Mahal Ashish Aryan, Sachin LadiaThe Spark Rajesh Jala
Cameron Bailey, artistic director of Tiff, said: “Indian independent cinema is taking the world by storm and it all begins with its screenwriters. We’re proud to welcome this workshop to the Toronto International Film Festival, and support the Nfdc’s important work.”
Nina Lath Gupta, MD of Nfdc , said: “Nfdc is delighted to be expanding...
- 8/14/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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