The Summer Of Flying Fish screened in the Discovery Section at Tiff after premiering in the Directors Fortnight in Cannes this past May. Two films from Chile at Tiff out of 16 Latin American films gives it an extra luster.
Read the review for the film Here
Also notable is the production company behind the film, Jirafa, which was founded in 2001 by one of Chile’s great minds of cinema, Bruno Betatti, whose book, Why Not, about the political policy for the film industry in Chile articulates today’s international film business issues of distribution and exhibition not just in Chile but throughout the world as it explores solutions to the problems most indie filmmakers face today. Betatti also is the Director of the Valdivia Film Festival, Chile’s top festival which I attended in 2005 and 2006 as a guest working with the then-young-now-mature generation of filmmakers whose films are now showing worldwide.
Director Marcela Said, however, was someone I never met. I had the feeling she was younger than the Sebastian Lelio/ Sebastian Silva/ Pablo Larrain/ Matias Bizes set, but on looking at her filmography, I see she is in fact in the same generation. However, she came to filmmaking from a different direction.
Filmmaking came out of Marcela’s love of politics. Born in Chile, she studied philosophy and moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. There she discovered that documentaries offered a way to discuss political issues, a favorite pastime of the French and a crucial one for Chileans.
Her first documentary, which she made in 1999 with the prestigious French production company Les Films d’ici was Valparaiso (the most beautiful city in Chile). In 2001, the 52 minute I Love Pinochet, began as an exploration of human rights. I Love Pinochet was a dialogue with Pinochet supporters, accompanied by images which lifted the film onto a metaphysical plane. The fact that it sold everywhere enabled her to make her next film in 2006, another 54 minute documentary, Opus Dei, which she co-directed with her French film editor husband, Jean de Certeau.
When I was in Chile, I was surprised at the visible marks left by Pinochet on society and by the continued fear of Opus Dei, the most influential and secretive organization of the Catholic Church, whose members many Chileans equate with Pinochet today. I heard people speak of this documentary, an unprecedented journey into the world of Christian fundamentalism in which the will to plant "the cross in the middle of the world" would remove all boundaries between religious and secular life.
Her next film, also codirected with her husband, The Young Butler (El Mocito in Spanish), focuses on the story of Jorgelino Vergara, a man who, from the age of 16, worked in a torture center during the Chilean military regime.
Making these films moved her from the spoken word to images, and as she began to appreciate cinematographic storytelling, and she moved into making her first fiction feature, The Summer of Flying Fish.
This film retains her concerns which are expressed by an atmosphere of fear and tension between the Mapuche people and a particularly incursive white landowner. The film was inspired by a trip she took to the south of Chile where she found a house whose inhabitants lived in an unspoken fear the Mapuche, the native people of the land who were setting fires on trains. The constant silent threat of violence grew as their acts became worse. The invisible threat of violence plays a part in this drama of a determined sixteen year old on a family vacation who is the darling daughter of a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his lake. As he resorts to ever more extreme methods over the course of the summer, Manena experiences her first deception in love and discovers a world that silently co-exists alongside her own: that of the Mapuche Indian workers who claim access to these lands… and who stand up to her father.
She co-wrote this script with Julio Rojas, another member of the pivotal generation who also wrote La vida de los peces (2010),Habitación en Roma (2010) and En la cama (2005). She shot it in 24 days in Chile and did sound and post in Paris. It was in the Berlin Co-Production Market where Jirafa found its French co-producer, Cinéma de facto. It screened in Toulouse as a work in progress and won the Ciné+ Special Prize at Cinéma en Construction at the end of March, which enabled the movie to finalize its post-production. ( Read more at Cineuropa). It was finished 2 days before its premiere in the Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2013 where it was very warmly received. Here at Tiff it was also very well received; “no one left the room” as Marcela put it.
Its international sales agent, Alpha Violet has entered it into many festivals, including Biarritz, Open Doors in Locarno.
It received funds initially from Corfo, Ffa and Cnca of Chile. Fons Sud also supported it and it received finishing funds from the Region Ile de France and Arte’s Cofinova.
Marcela’s next film is a politically incorrect story about the friendship of a woman with a master teacher of dressage. She discovered this true story while working on El Mocito. She herself loves horses and took lessons from The Master until he went to prison for human rights violations during the time he served in Pinochet’s government. He becomes her mentor and she becomes his confidante as he promises to teach her to jump before he goes to prison. It all takes place in the Horse Club. There is much more in the emotional side of the story.
I asked Marcela how with a husband and a 9 year old son she finds time to write.
“I write three hours minimum every day. I also work on other projects.”
Is it hard to be a female director?
“Gender was never a problem. I was raised knowing I could do whatever I wanted. However, a woman always has to prove herself.”
“I must travel and shoot, like for 2 months in Paris and that takes some negotiating with my husband. It helps that I put my son in the films.”
The Summer Of Flying Fish
Chile – 88min – In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Marcela Said
Producers Jirafa and Cinema Defacto
Sales Contact: Alpha Violet – Virginie Devesa
http://www.alphaviolet.com/the-summer-of-flying-fish/
http://www.alphaviolet.com/toronto/...
Read the review for the film Here
Also notable is the production company behind the film, Jirafa, which was founded in 2001 by one of Chile’s great minds of cinema, Bruno Betatti, whose book, Why Not, about the political policy for the film industry in Chile articulates today’s international film business issues of distribution and exhibition not just in Chile but throughout the world as it explores solutions to the problems most indie filmmakers face today. Betatti also is the Director of the Valdivia Film Festival, Chile’s top festival which I attended in 2005 and 2006 as a guest working with the then-young-now-mature generation of filmmakers whose films are now showing worldwide.
Director Marcela Said, however, was someone I never met. I had the feeling she was younger than the Sebastian Lelio/ Sebastian Silva/ Pablo Larrain/ Matias Bizes set, but on looking at her filmography, I see she is in fact in the same generation. However, she came to filmmaking from a different direction.
Filmmaking came out of Marcela’s love of politics. Born in Chile, she studied philosophy and moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. There she discovered that documentaries offered a way to discuss political issues, a favorite pastime of the French and a crucial one for Chileans.
Her first documentary, which she made in 1999 with the prestigious French production company Les Films d’ici was Valparaiso (the most beautiful city in Chile). In 2001, the 52 minute I Love Pinochet, began as an exploration of human rights. I Love Pinochet was a dialogue with Pinochet supporters, accompanied by images which lifted the film onto a metaphysical plane. The fact that it sold everywhere enabled her to make her next film in 2006, another 54 minute documentary, Opus Dei, which she co-directed with her French film editor husband, Jean de Certeau.
When I was in Chile, I was surprised at the visible marks left by Pinochet on society and by the continued fear of Opus Dei, the most influential and secretive organization of the Catholic Church, whose members many Chileans equate with Pinochet today. I heard people speak of this documentary, an unprecedented journey into the world of Christian fundamentalism in which the will to plant "the cross in the middle of the world" would remove all boundaries between religious and secular life.
Her next film, also codirected with her husband, The Young Butler (El Mocito in Spanish), focuses on the story of Jorgelino Vergara, a man who, from the age of 16, worked in a torture center during the Chilean military regime.
Making these films moved her from the spoken word to images, and as she began to appreciate cinematographic storytelling, and she moved into making her first fiction feature, The Summer of Flying Fish.
This film retains her concerns which are expressed by an atmosphere of fear and tension between the Mapuche people and a particularly incursive white landowner. The film was inspired by a trip she took to the south of Chile where she found a house whose inhabitants lived in an unspoken fear the Mapuche, the native people of the land who were setting fires on trains. The constant silent threat of violence grew as their acts became worse. The invisible threat of violence plays a part in this drama of a determined sixteen year old on a family vacation who is the darling daughter of a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his lake. As he resorts to ever more extreme methods over the course of the summer, Manena experiences her first deception in love and discovers a world that silently co-exists alongside her own: that of the Mapuche Indian workers who claim access to these lands… and who stand up to her father.
She co-wrote this script with Julio Rojas, another member of the pivotal generation who also wrote La vida de los peces (2010),Habitación en Roma (2010) and En la cama (2005). She shot it in 24 days in Chile and did sound and post in Paris. It was in the Berlin Co-Production Market where Jirafa found its French co-producer, Cinéma de facto. It screened in Toulouse as a work in progress and won the Ciné+ Special Prize at Cinéma en Construction at the end of March, which enabled the movie to finalize its post-production. ( Read more at Cineuropa). It was finished 2 days before its premiere in the Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2013 where it was very warmly received. Here at Tiff it was also very well received; “no one left the room” as Marcela put it.
Its international sales agent, Alpha Violet has entered it into many festivals, including Biarritz, Open Doors in Locarno.
It received funds initially from Corfo, Ffa and Cnca of Chile. Fons Sud also supported it and it received finishing funds from the Region Ile de France and Arte’s Cofinova.
Marcela’s next film is a politically incorrect story about the friendship of a woman with a master teacher of dressage. She discovered this true story while working on El Mocito. She herself loves horses and took lessons from The Master until he went to prison for human rights violations during the time he served in Pinochet’s government. He becomes her mentor and she becomes his confidante as he promises to teach her to jump before he goes to prison. It all takes place in the Horse Club. There is much more in the emotional side of the story.
I asked Marcela how with a husband and a 9 year old son she finds time to write.
“I write three hours minimum every day. I also work on other projects.”
Is it hard to be a female director?
“Gender was never a problem. I was raised knowing I could do whatever I wanted. However, a woman always has to prove herself.”
“I must travel and shoot, like for 2 months in Paris and that takes some negotiating with my husband. It helps that I put my son in the films.”
The Summer Of Flying Fish
Chile – 88min – In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Marcela Said
Producers Jirafa and Cinema Defacto
Sales Contact: Alpha Violet – Virginie Devesa
http://www.alphaviolet.com/the-summer-of-flying-fish/
http://www.alphaviolet.com/toronto/...
- 9/17/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
A still from Qissa
Q issa, that premieres at Toronto International Film Festival in September, is the culmination of a 12-year long ‘exile’ period for Geneva-based filmmaker Anup Singh.
Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh, who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947.
In an interview to Nandita Dutta, Singh describes his journey of making Qissa, why audiences will relate to it easily, and why he hopes to be invited for a Punjabi meal after the world premiere at Toronto!
How did Qissa originate? You were born in Tanzania and currently live in Switzerland. What drew you towards writing a story about partition and displacement in Punjab?
Qissa had been flickering within me from that terrible day my parents, my two younger sisters and I had to leave forever the city of my birth,...
Q issa, that premieres at Toronto International Film Festival in September, is the culmination of a 12-year long ‘exile’ period for Geneva-based filmmaker Anup Singh.
Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh, who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947.
In an interview to Nandita Dutta, Singh describes his journey of making Qissa, why audiences will relate to it easily, and why he hopes to be invited for a Punjabi meal after the world premiere at Toronto!
How did Qissa originate? You were born in Tanzania and currently live in Switzerland. What drew you towards writing a story about partition and displacement in Punjab?
Qissa had been flickering within me from that terrible day my parents, my two younger sisters and I had to leave forever the city of my birth,...
- 8/29/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Europa Cinemas Label awarded to Tableau Noir; Fipresci prize goes to What Now? Remind Me. Talk of Marco Mueller’s return with new Palazzo project.Scroll down for full list of winners
Catalan director Albert Serra was the surprise winner of this year’s Golden Leopard in Locarno for a historical drama with a difference, Story Of My Death.
Described by Serra by as “a movie about the beauty of horror, and also about the horror of beauty,” Story Of My Death imagines an encounter between Casanova of 18th rationalism and Count Dracula from the romantic 19th century.
French co-producer Capricci Films is handling international sales on the Spanish-French co-production which will be screened in Toronto’s Wavelengths programme next month.
However, films tipped for Leopard statuettes such as Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord and David Wnendt’s Wetlands were passed over by the International Jury headed by Filipino director Lav Diaz. Moreover, local...
Catalan director Albert Serra was the surprise winner of this year’s Golden Leopard in Locarno for a historical drama with a difference, Story Of My Death.
Described by Serra by as “a movie about the beauty of horror, and also about the horror of beauty,” Story Of My Death imagines an encounter between Casanova of 18th rationalism and Count Dracula from the romantic 19th century.
French co-producer Capricci Films is handling international sales on the Spanish-French co-production which will be screened in Toronto’s Wavelengths programme next month.
However, films tipped for Leopard statuettes such as Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord and David Wnendt’s Wetlands were passed over by the International Jury headed by Filipino director Lav Diaz. Moreover, local...
- 8/18/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Film-makers from Georgia were the big winners at the Open Doors awards ceremony at the Locarno Film Festival.
The prizes were handed out at the end of the 11th edition of Locarno’s four-day co-production lab devoted to cinema from the South Caucasus, with a focus on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
See You In Chechnya, a feature documentary about war correspondents, won the Open Doors Production Award worth $22,600 (20,000 Chf).
The film, directed by Georgia’s Alexander Kvatashidze, also won the Arte Open Doors Award worth $8,000 (€6,000). Set for release next year, it already has French, Dutch and Estonian partners on board.
Abysm, directed by Armenia’s Oksana Mirzoyan, picked up the Open Doors Development Award while Madona, by Georgian director Nino Gogua, won the Open Doors Post-Production Award. Both prizes are worth $16,000 (15,000 Chf).
Sleeping Lessons, the second feature from Georgia’s Rusudan Pirvelli, won the Cnc Award, worth $9,300 (€7,000).
The 12 projects that participated in the co-pro lab were selected...
The prizes were handed out at the end of the 11th edition of Locarno’s four-day co-production lab devoted to cinema from the South Caucasus, with a focus on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
See You In Chechnya, a feature documentary about war correspondents, won the Open Doors Production Award worth $22,600 (20,000 Chf).
The film, directed by Georgia’s Alexander Kvatashidze, also won the Arte Open Doors Award worth $8,000 (€6,000). Set for release next year, it already has French, Dutch and Estonian partners on board.
Abysm, directed by Armenia’s Oksana Mirzoyan, picked up the Open Doors Development Award while Madona, by Georgian director Nino Gogua, won the Open Doors Post-Production Award. Both prizes are worth $16,000 (15,000 Chf).
Sleeping Lessons, the second feature from Georgia’s Rusudan Pirvelli, won the Cnc Award, worth $9,300 (€7,000).
The 12 projects that participated in the co-pro lab were selected...
- 8/13/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Italian screenwriter, novelist and poet who formed a successful partnership with the film director Roberto Benigni
Although he was a respected novelist and poet, Vincenzo Cerami, who has died aged 72 after a long illness, was perhaps best known as a screenwriter, thanks to his long partnership with the director Roberto Benigni. The pair co-wrote six films and had their greatest success with La Vita è Bella (Life Is Beautiful, 1997), which starred Benigni as a Jewish internee in a concentration camp, desperately pretending to his young son that it is all a game. The film won three Oscars and had a further four nominations, including for best screenplay. "Knowing Vincenzo was a gift," said Benigni, "because he taught people's hearts to beat."
On their early films together, Cerami was not able to totally sublimate Benigni's excesses as an actor. Nevertheless, Il Piccolo Diavolo (The Little Devil, 1988), Johnny Stecchino (1991) and Il Mostro (The Monster,...
Although he was a respected novelist and poet, Vincenzo Cerami, who has died aged 72 after a long illness, was perhaps best known as a screenwriter, thanks to his long partnership with the director Roberto Benigni. The pair co-wrote six films and had their greatest success with La Vita è Bella (Life Is Beautiful, 1997), which starred Benigni as a Jewish internee in a concentration camp, desperately pretending to his young son that it is all a game. The film won three Oscars and had a further four nominations, including for best screenplay. "Knowing Vincenzo was a gift," said Benigni, "because he taught people's hearts to beat."
On their early films together, Cerami was not able to totally sublimate Benigni's excesses as an actor. Nevertheless, Il Piccolo Diavolo (The Little Devil, 1988), Johnny Stecchino (1991) and Il Mostro (The Monster,...
- 7/24/2013
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia could be among six potential new members of the European Union’s (EU) forthcoming Creative Europe programme, which is expected to begin operations from January 2014.
Speaking at a discussion about cooperation between East and West at this week’s Odessa International Film Festival’s Industry Programme, the European Commission’s Irina Orssich explained that accession candidates countries or countries bordering the EU - such as Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - could negotiate to have full participation or sign bilateral agreements for specific actions.
Key prerequisites for full participation in Creative Europe would be for any of these countries to have the World Trade Organisation’s ¨most-favoured-nation¨ exemption of the audiovisual sector and respect of certain conditions laid down in the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services (Avms) directive.
Alternatively, a national government could decide to conclude a bilateral agreement with the European Commission on specific actions in the future framework programme...
Speaking at a discussion about cooperation between East and West at this week’s Odessa International Film Festival’s Industry Programme, the European Commission’s Irina Orssich explained that accession candidates countries or countries bordering the EU - such as Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - could negotiate to have full participation or sign bilateral agreements for specific actions.
Key prerequisites for full participation in Creative Europe would be for any of these countries to have the World Trade Organisation’s ¨most-favoured-nation¨ exemption of the audiovisual sector and respect of certain conditions laid down in the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services (Avms) directive.
Alternatively, a national government could decide to conclude a bilateral agreement with the European Commission on specific actions in the future framework programme...
- 7/18/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Hova’s new album ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ isn’t coming out until July 9 (or July 4 for Samsung Galaxy users), but lyrics for his song ‘Jay-z Blue’ have been released — and it’s all about his baby Blue Ivy! So sweet!
Jay-z has softened up his tough-as-nails rap image since welcoming his first child Blue Ivy Carter with wife Beyonce on Jan. 7, 2012. A new track on his upcoming album is titled “Jay-z Blue (Daddy Dearest),” and it’s all about his baby girl!
Jay-z
Jay-z’s latest album Magna Carta Holy Grail drops on July 9 — or on July 4 for Samsung Galaxy users — and one of the most touching tracks on the album is about his daughter, 17 months. The rapper opened up about the meaning behind the song in a new Samsung ad.
“It deals with… my pop left when I was young,” Jay-z revealed. “He didn’t teach me how to be a man,...
Jay-z has softened up his tough-as-nails rap image since welcoming his first child Blue Ivy Carter with wife Beyonce on Jan. 7, 2012. A new track on his upcoming album is titled “Jay-z Blue (Daddy Dearest),” and it’s all about his baby girl!
Jay-z
Jay-z’s latest album Magna Carta Holy Grail drops on July 9 — or on July 4 for Samsung Galaxy users — and one of the most touching tracks on the album is about his daughter, 17 months. The rapper opened up about the meaning behind the song in a new Samsung ad.
“It deals with… my pop left when I was young,” Jay-z revealed. “He didn’t teach me how to be a man,...
- 7/1/2013
- by Christina Stiehl
- HollywoodLife
Do you remember the earlier days of gaming on PC with such games as The Twilight Zone when horror didn't revolve around advanced graphics to scare us? If so, you can reminiscence about those days by playing the free-to-play horror adventure the The Last Door. Read on to learn more.
From the Press Release
Independent game company The Game Kitchen is excited to release a new chapter for The Last Door, an episodic point-and-click adventure game featuring stylish low-res graphics and a foreboding orchestral soundtrack, for PC, Linux & Mac and other flash-enabled devices. The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in late 2012, and has now released two full chapters to the public.
The Last Door boasts uniquely exaggerated pixel-art style graphics with an exquisite soundtrack to create a vivid world players can use to immerse themselves in the dark and twisted point-and-click horror-adventure. The spine tingling story unfolds chapter by chapter,...
From the Press Release
Independent game company The Game Kitchen is excited to release a new chapter for The Last Door, an episodic point-and-click adventure game featuring stylish low-res graphics and a foreboding orchestral soundtrack, for PC, Linux & Mac and other flash-enabled devices. The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in late 2012, and has now released two full chapters to the public.
The Last Door boasts uniquely exaggerated pixel-art style graphics with an exquisite soundtrack to create a vivid world players can use to immerse themselves in the dark and twisted point-and-click horror-adventure. The spine tingling story unfolds chapter by chapter,...
- 6/21/2013
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday) starts principal photography on May 24, 2013 and will go on till July 10, 2013. The film will be shot in Mumbai and Goa.
The film deals with the subject of child trafficking and abuse. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, must chase an elusive figure on the streets of Mumbai that steals the children.
It features Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, English Vinglish) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane, Monsoon Shootout).
The film was selected for the Nfdc Film Bazaar in 2012 and Locarno Open Doors co-production market in 2011.
French DoP Jean-Marc Ferriere who shot Sen-Gupta’s previous film Hava Aney Dey is the cinematographer of the film which is produced by India’s Independent Movies, Infinitum Productions, Aryasaa Cine Productions and France’s Dolce Vita Films along with the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc).
The film deals with the subject of child trafficking and abuse. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, must chase an elusive figure on the streets of Mumbai that steals the children.
It features Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, English Vinglish) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane, Monsoon Shootout).
The film was selected for the Nfdc Film Bazaar in 2012 and Locarno Open Doors co-production market in 2011.
French DoP Jean-Marc Ferriere who shot Sen-Gupta’s previous film Hava Aney Dey is the cinematographer of the film which is produced by India’s Independent Movies, Infinitum Productions, Aryasaa Cine Productions and France’s Dolce Vita Films along with the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc).
- 5/22/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
With The Twilight Saga mercifully over and done (at least for now), it's interesting to see which directions its former stars will take. Next up to dip his toe into the horror-themed waters is one of the younger wolves in the pack, BooBoo Stewart, in his new film Devil's Door.
Directed by Elias Matar (Ashes) and produced by Jack Reher (writer - Red Machine, Wet House), Devil's Door stars the aforementioned and pictured Stewart along with Aldo Gonzales ("Anger Management," "Sons of Anarchy"), the lovely Barbara Nedeljakova (Hostel), and Nicholas Turturro ("Blue Bloods," Takers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry).
Devil's Door is described as "an elevated psychological thriller in the vein of a hyper-stylized and grittier version of Death Wish set against the graffiti painted streets of Los Angeles."
More on this one as we get it!
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Directed by Elias Matar (Ashes) and produced by Jack Reher (writer - Red Machine, Wet House), Devil's Door stars the aforementioned and pictured Stewart along with Aldo Gonzales ("Anger Management," "Sons of Anarchy"), the lovely Barbara Nedeljakova (Hostel), and Nicholas Turturro ("Blue Bloods," Takers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry).
Devil's Door is described as "an elevated psychological thriller in the vein of a hyper-stylized and grittier version of Death Wish set against the graffiti painted streets of Los Angeles."
More on this one as we get it!
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Got news? Click here to submit it!
- 5/21/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
They say you need to be patient in the movie business, and that proves to be quite true as news has finally come of the release of Stephen Manuel's multi-award-winning Iron Doors on DVD and VOD today, March 5th.
We first heard of the film back in 2010 during the American Film Market and actually gave it a pretty decent three-knife review (click here for more info). Check out the film's synopsis, trailer, and cover art below.
Synopsis:
Fans of tense, claustrophobic, single-location thrillers like Cube, Saw, and Buried are in for a real treat this month when Stephen Manuel's Iron Doors is released on DVD and VOD in North America by Jinga Films. Its numerous awards include:
Best Actor - Fantasporto
Best 3D Film - 3D Film Festival, Los Angeles
Best Cinematography - European Independent Film Festival
Best Film - Haapsalu Film Festival
Locked in a vault, a...
We first heard of the film back in 2010 during the American Film Market and actually gave it a pretty decent three-knife review (click here for more info). Check out the film's synopsis, trailer, and cover art below.
Synopsis:
Fans of tense, claustrophobic, single-location thrillers like Cube, Saw, and Buried are in for a real treat this month when Stephen Manuel's Iron Doors is released on DVD and VOD in North America by Jinga Films. Its numerous awards include:
Best Actor - Fantasporto
Best 3D Film - 3D Film Festival, Los Angeles
Best Cinematography - European Independent Film Festival
Best Film - Haapsalu Film Festival
Locked in a vault, a...
- 3/5/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
While funding and distribution in India still remain a herculean challenge, 2012 seems to have slightly bettered the prospects for Indian documentaries. At par with their fiction film cousins, they not only made waves at international film festivals but a few of them also achieved limited release in domestic theatres. DearCinema lists the top ten favourite documentaries of the year (based on festival participation, awards and reviews):
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
- 12/27/2012
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Most acts of religiously motivated violence pit one faith against the other, but the uproar across the Middle East over clips of an anti-Islam, American-produced film has managed to draw several faiths into the fray, presenting a unique set of circumstances.
Reports have linked people from three major religions, Islam, Judaism and Christianity with the film, and members of each say they fear repercussions against their own people and their relationships to other religions groups.
There have been more than a dozen deaths of Americans and Middle Eastern nationals during protests; the most high-profile victim was U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, though U.S. officials have said the attack on the Benghazi consulate where he and other Americans were killed may have been planned. Protesters in front of Yemen's U.S. Embassy died in clashes with police Thursday, while in Cairo demonstrators jumped over the wall of the U.
Reports have linked people from three major religions, Islam, Judaism and Christianity with the film, and members of each say they fear repercussions against their own people and their relationships to other religions groups.
There have been more than a dozen deaths of Americans and Middle Eastern nationals during protests; the most high-profile victim was U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, though U.S. officials have said the attack on the Benghazi consulate where he and other Americans were killed may have been planned. Protesters in front of Yemen's U.S. Embassy died in clashes with police Thursday, while in Cairo demonstrators jumped over the wall of the U.
- 9/14/2012
- by Jaweed Kaleem
- Huffington Post
I like the quiet simplicity of this short from German-Colombian filmmaker Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau, titled Oury Jalloh. I only came across it because I was looking over the list of projects selected for the Locarno Open Doors initiative we've highlighted on this site; one of the projects was a feature titled Without Artificial Tits There Is No Salvation. Of course, with a title like that, I have to learn more; a search for the film didn't turn up much, since it hasn't been made yet (hence the Locarno program which pairs projects with producers); but my search did lead me to more info about the filmmaker, who's been making films since 2007. ...
- 8/8/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Locarno, Switzerland -- Veteran producer Arnon Milchan stole the show at the 65th Locarno Film Festival on Tuesday with a highly emotional and personal acceptance for his Leopard of Honor career award under clear skies in the festival’s Piazza Grande, just ahead of the international premiere of French director Noemie Lvivsky’s playful comedy Camille redouble (Camille Rewinds). The awards for the Open Doors sidebar also were handed out Tuesday, while iconic calypso singer Harry Belafonte mused about his role in Carmen Jones, one of Otto Preminger’s most charged productions. The film screened Tuesday as part of Locarno’s comprehensive retrospective of Preminger’s
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- 8/7/2012
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Announced last fall, the Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors co-production mart focused on French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa this year. The prominent Swiss fest recruited African cinema pros to consult in selecting a dozen participating projects that were to be announced in May. Skip ahead 2 months later, the event ended today, after 3 days of filmmakers from Francophone sub-Saharan Africa meeting one-on-one with potential production partners, with a number of them walking away with Open Doors prizes worth as much as 50.000 Swiss Francs ($58,000), and other smaller cash nods. Like this one... Senegalese actress/director Mati Diop’s debut...
- 8/7/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Locarno, Switzerland – The Locarno Film Festival’s packed schedule took place under stormy skies again Sunday, with the presentation of the directors from the Open Doors film lab and the double bill scheduled for the Piazza Grande moved from Europe’s largest outdoor venue to a much less dramatic indoor site. But the rain did not interrupt a full day of events, which also included the world premiere screening of Peter Mettler’s in-competition documentary The End of Time, plus a half a dozen films from the Carte Blanche sidebar focusing on Mexico and a continuation of the festival’s retrospective of
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- 8/5/2012
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tonight may be the big night but last evening, June 9, The Tony Awards Administration Committee hosted the annual Tony Eve Cocktail Party Tony at the InterContinental Hotels amp Resorts to celebrate this year's Special Tony Award winners. The Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre were established in 1990 and are awarded annually to institutions, individuals andor organizations that have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in theatre, but are not eligible in any of the established Tony Award categories. This years Tony Honors were presented to Freddie Gershon, CEO and Chairman of Musica Theatre International, Artie Siccardi, Production Supervisor of Arthur Siccardi Theatrical Services, Inc. who has overseen more than 200 Broadway productions, and Tdf Open Doors, Theatre Development Funds arts education program.
- 6/10/2012
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise has on board Bero Beyer (Augustus Film, Netherlands) and Fabian Massah (Endorphine Productions, Germany) apart from Rakesh Mehra (Independent Movies, Mumbai) and Nfdc. The co-production deals were finalized at Marche du Films in Cannes Film Festival.
Sunrise, which deals with child abuse, will feature Adil Hussain (Life of Pi) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane). The project is expected to go into production early next year.
“ It’s great for me as a large weight has been shifted from my shoulders as I can pass the baton to them and stick only to the creative process of the film. Nfdc backing it also gave the impetus that we were waiting for. But I think that the 156 crowd-funders are the real heroes of the film project,” said Sen-Gupta.
Sen-Gupta has earlier collected $21, 000 for Sunrise on crowd funding website indiegogo.com.
The film will now be an Indo-German-Dutch co-production with a mixed international crew.
Sunrise, which deals with child abuse, will feature Adil Hussain (Life of Pi) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane). The project is expected to go into production early next year.
“ It’s great for me as a large weight has been shifted from my shoulders as I can pass the baton to them and stick only to the creative process of the film. Nfdc backing it also gave the impetus that we were waiting for. But I think that the 156 crowd-funders are the real heroes of the film project,” said Sen-Gupta.
Sen-Gupta has earlier collected $21, 000 for Sunrise on crowd funding website indiegogo.com.
The film will now be an Indo-German-Dutch co-production with a mixed international crew.
- 5/25/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Sidharth Srinivasan
South Korean sales company Finecut has picked up international rights outside India to Sidharth Srinivasan’s horror film The Profane.
The film will be a co-production between India, UK and Korea. It will be co-produced by Andy Starke and Pete Tombs of UK’s Root Films, and Finecut’s Suh Young-Joo.
The synopsis of the film on Finecut’s website: A brother and sister, at odds with the world and one another, take their elderly mother to Varanasi to fulfill her dying wish–to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in the holy river Ganges. But, once there, the mother refuses to die. To find a way out of their dilemma, her two children are forced to resort to extreme measures. Measures that trap them in a world of strange magic and dark desires; a world ruled by the dead rather than the living.
The Profane, which...
South Korean sales company Finecut has picked up international rights outside India to Sidharth Srinivasan’s horror film The Profane.
The film will be a co-production between India, UK and Korea. It will be co-produced by Andy Starke and Pete Tombs of UK’s Root Films, and Finecut’s Suh Young-Joo.
The synopsis of the film on Finecut’s website: A brother and sister, at odds with the world and one another, take their elderly mother to Varanasi to fulfill her dying wish–to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in the holy river Ganges. But, once there, the mother refuses to die. To find a way out of their dilemma, her two children are forced to resort to extreme measures. Measures that trap them in a world of strange magic and dark desires; a world ruled by the dead rather than the living.
The Profane, which...
- 5/17/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Reuters ‘Once’ with Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti.
In a diverse theater season with no clear frontrunner, the Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday morning swept across the board, with nods to major star vehicles like “Death of a Salesman,” offbeat newcomers including the new musical “Once,” work by Broadway veterans such as “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and classic revivals with “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.”
As expected, “Death of a Salesman” scored big. The play with a...
In a diverse theater season with no clear frontrunner, the Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday morning swept across the board, with nods to major star vehicles like “Death of a Salesman,” offbeat newcomers including the new musical “Once,” work by Broadway veterans such as “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and classic revivals with “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.”
As expected, “Death of a Salesman” scored big. The play with a...
- 5/1/2012
- by Ellen Gamerman
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Do you smell that? It’s Tony fever, and it starts right now! The theater awards season kicked off this morning when Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons announced the nominations for this year’s Tony Awards, which will air on CBS on Sunday, June 10 on CBS (hosted by Neil Patrick Harris).
Among the most nominated titles this year was Once, which landed 11 nominations including nods for Best Musical and its two stars, Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti. Fan favorites Newsies and Follies got their due, and there was no dearth of big Hollywood names either, with the likes of Stockard Channing,...
Among the most nominated titles this year was Once, which landed 11 nominations including nods for Best Musical and its two stars, Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti. Fan favorites Newsies and Follies got their due, and there was no dearth of big Hollywood names either, with the likes of Stockard Channing,...
- 5/1/2012
- by Marc Snetiker
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Newport Beach Film Festival
opens today and runs through May 3.
Bertrand Bonello will preside over the Jury for the Nespresso Grand Prize for La Semaine de la Critique (Critics' Week), while João Pedro Rodrigues will be President of the Jury for the Nikon Discovery Award for Short Film. The awards will be presented on Closing Night, May 24, and, once again, here are the lineups they'll be taking in.
Nina Menkes will not only be on the International Jury at the Jeonju International Film Festival, opening today and running through May 4; she'll also be presenting her 1996 feature, The Bloody Child, one of only five films selected to represent 50 years of the Jeonju sister festival, the Viennale.
Michael Guillén previews the lineup of the International Film Festival of Panama, opening today and running through Wednesday.
"12 projects from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa have been selected for Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno's co-production lab.
opens today and runs through May 3.
Bertrand Bonello will preside over the Jury for the Nespresso Grand Prize for La Semaine de la Critique (Critics' Week), while João Pedro Rodrigues will be President of the Jury for the Nikon Discovery Award for Short Film. The awards will be presented on Closing Night, May 24, and, once again, here are the lineups they'll be taking in.
Nina Menkes will not only be on the International Jury at the Jeonju International Film Festival, opening today and running through May 4; she'll also be presenting her 1996 feature, The Bloody Child, one of only five films selected to represent 50 years of the Jeonju sister festival, the Viennale.
Michael Guillén previews the lineup of the International Film Festival of Panama, opening today and running through Wednesday.
"12 projects from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa have been selected for Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno's co-production lab.
- 4/26/2012
- MUBI
Festival Scope has expanded its presence in Hong Kong. In addition to its collaboration with the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the presentation on Festival Scope of a selection of brand new Asian titles, B2B online platform Festival Scope has concluded a partnership with Haf, the Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum.
The partnership highlights the Haf selected talent: a selection of the previous films of the filmmakers who have a project at Haf are now available for screening on Festival Scope. This will help potential co-producers and sales agents to follow-up their meetings in Hong Kong.
Previous films of the Haf selection of up and coming talent were shown in very prestigious film festivals like Berlinale, Rotterdam and Venice. Jacob Wong, Haf representative, says: "Haf is very happy to enter into collaboration with Festival Scope. This will on the one hand, give participating filmmakers wider exposure to industry professionals around the world, and on the other, a better understanding of the work that's being done here for people interested in co-production in Asia"
Festival Scope shares this exclusive space with Cinando. Together they present presents some of the most important coproduction markets worldwide. Festival Scope presents Busan’ s Apm, Rotterdam’s CineMart, Berlinale Coproduction Market, Guadalajara’s Ibero-American Coproduction Meetings, Locarno’s Open Doors Dubai’s Film Connection and Sarajevo’s CineLink among others. Cinando presents Ventana Sur, Afm, Tallinn Black Nights, Busan Ff, Montreal Fnc, San Sebastian and Toronto International Film Festival.
The partnership highlights the Haf selected talent: a selection of the previous films of the filmmakers who have a project at Haf are now available for screening on Festival Scope. This will help potential co-producers and sales agents to follow-up their meetings in Hong Kong.
Previous films of the Haf selection of up and coming talent were shown in very prestigious film festivals like Berlinale, Rotterdam and Venice. Jacob Wong, Haf representative, says: "Haf is very happy to enter into collaboration with Festival Scope. This will on the one hand, give participating filmmakers wider exposure to industry professionals around the world, and on the other, a better understanding of the work that's being done here for people interested in co-production in Asia"
Festival Scope shares this exclusive space with Cinando. Together they present presents some of the most important coproduction markets worldwide. Festival Scope presents Busan’ s Apm, Rotterdam’s CineMart, Berlinale Coproduction Market, Guadalajara’s Ibero-American Coproduction Meetings, Locarno’s Open Doors Dubai’s Film Connection and Sarajevo’s CineLink among others. Cinando presents Ventana Sur, Afm, Tallinn Black Nights, Busan Ff, Montreal Fnc, San Sebastian and Toronto International Film Festival.
- 4/10/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The 2012 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre were announced over the weekend. This year, those deemed to have demonstrated “extraordinary achievement in theatre” are Freddie Gershon, Artie Siccardi, and Tdf Open Doors.Gershon created Music Theatre International’s Broadway Kids/Broadway Jr., which condenses and tours Broadway musicals to elementary and middle schools. Siccardi, who serves as production supervisor of Arthur Siccardi Theatrical Services, Inc., has overseen 200-plus Broadway productions, and the Theatre Development Fund’s Open Doors partners working theater professionals with New York City public high school students in a mentorship program.The awards will be presented Saturday, June 9, at the annual pre-Tony Awards cocktail party.Watch a video about Tdf Open Doors below.
- 3/12/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Mark Peikert)
- backstage.com
Khule Darwaaze (Open Doors) by Ashish Pandey and Samvedanam (Communication) by Methil Komalankutty will be screened at 23rd Ankara International Film Festival in Turkey.
Mumbai-based filmmaker Ashish Pandey’s Khule Darwaaze recently picked up the Best Short Film award at the 4th Jaipur International Film Festival. The film is about an old woman who banks on images from the past to cope with her present that is devoid of any contact with the outer world.
Methil Komalankutty is a non-resident Indian working in Abu Dhabi. His short Samvedanam discusses the strains in family relationship, suffered by the members of a migrant family from India in a foreign land, especially the old who are neglected due to the busy lives of the other members of the family.
The 23rd Ankara International Film Festival will be held from March 15-22, 2012.
Mumbai-based filmmaker Ashish Pandey’s Khule Darwaaze recently picked up the Best Short Film award at the 4th Jaipur International Film Festival. The film is about an old woman who banks on images from the past to cope with her present that is devoid of any contact with the outer world.
Methil Komalankutty is a non-resident Indian working in Abu Dhabi. His short Samvedanam discusses the strains in family relationship, suffered by the members of a migrant family from India in a foreign land, especially the old who are neglected due to the busy lives of the other members of the family.
The 23rd Ankara International Film Festival will be held from March 15-22, 2012.
- 3/12/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Khule Darwaze (Open Doors) by Ashish Pandey won the award for Best Short Film at the 4th Jaipur International Film Festival which concluded on Tuesday. The film had also won the Special Jury award at Short Film Center, Goa 2011 recently.
Mitu Kumar won the Best Short Film Director award for Banwara Mann. Dilli by Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas won the Best Documentary.
The Golden Camel award for Best Director went to Asghar Farhadi for A Separation. Angelo Cianci of France won Best Debut Director for Top Floor Left Wing.
Handover by Saurabh Kumar got a Special Jury Mention—Feature Film.
About 180 films were screened during five days of the festival in Jaipur.
Mitu Kumar won the Best Short Film Director award for Banwara Mann. Dilli by Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas won the Best Documentary.
The Golden Camel award for Best Director went to Asghar Farhadi for A Separation. Angelo Cianci of France won Best Debut Director for Top Floor Left Wing.
Handover by Saurabh Kumar got a Special Jury Mention—Feature Film.
About 180 films were screened during five days of the festival in Jaipur.
- 1/31/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Another Planet directed by Smita Bhide won the ‘Golden Lamp Tree Award’ comprising cash prize of 4 lakh Inr in the International Competition Section at the Short Film Center in Goa recently.
The ‘Silver Lamp Tree Award’ with cash prize of 3 lakh Inr was awarded to the film Crazy Beats Strong Every Time directed by Moon Molson.
The Special Jury Award with a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakhs went to Khule Darwaaze (Open Doors) directed by Ashish Pandey.
The Special Jury Award for a Goan Film in International Competition with cash prize of 50,000 Inr went to Anthony Gonsalves – The Music Legend directed by Ashok Rane.
Vasudha Award for the Best Film on Environmental Issues with a cash prize of 2.75 lakhs Inr went to A Pestering Journey directed by K. R. Manoj.
Short Film Center was held alongside International Film Festival of India, Goa from November 24-December 1,2011.
The ‘Silver Lamp Tree Award’ with cash prize of 3 lakh Inr was awarded to the film Crazy Beats Strong Every Time directed by Moon Molson.
The Special Jury Award with a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakhs went to Khule Darwaaze (Open Doors) directed by Ashish Pandey.
The Special Jury Award for a Goan Film in International Competition with cash prize of 50,000 Inr went to Anthony Gonsalves – The Music Legend directed by Ashok Rane.
Vasudha Award for the Best Film on Environmental Issues with a cash prize of 2.75 lakhs Inr went to A Pestering Journey directed by K. R. Manoj.
Short Film Center was held alongside International Film Festival of India, Goa from November 24-December 1,2011.
- 12/2/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Hitting DVD this Tuesday from Phase 4 Films is the new indie terror flick The Open Door, and to give you a preview of the horrors to come, we've nailed down an exclusive clip for you. Dig it!
From the Press Release
Phase 4 Films is pleased to announce the DVD release of the award-winning horror thriller The Open Door on November 15, 2011. The cast includes Catherine Georges (Obsessed), Sarah Christine Smith (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), Ryan Doom (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) and Daniel Booko (“Hannah Montana”). The Open Door garnered several film festival awards including Best Horror Film (28 Hours Later Film Festival), Audience Choice Award (L.A. Shriekfest Film Festival) and the Silver Screen Award (Nevada Film Festival).
Innocent and trusting Angelica falls in with the wrong crowd at school and finds herself grounded during the biggest party of her senior year. The desperate teen turns to a...
From the Press Release
Phase 4 Films is pleased to announce the DVD release of the award-winning horror thriller The Open Door on November 15, 2011. The cast includes Catherine Georges (Obsessed), Sarah Christine Smith (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), Ryan Doom (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) and Daniel Booko (“Hannah Montana”). The Open Door garnered several film festival awards including Best Horror Film (28 Hours Later Film Festival), Audience Choice Award (L.A. Shriekfest Film Festival) and the Silver Screen Award (Nevada Film Festival).
Innocent and trusting Angelica falls in with the wrong crowd at school and finds herself grounded during the biggest party of her senior year. The desperate teen turns to a...
- 11/14/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Helen Mirren, Sylvia Syms in Stephen Frears' The Queen The European Film Awards usually don't have much of an influence on the Academy Awards. Part of the reason is that many of the European Academy's nominated movies aren't eligible for the Hollywood Academy's awards, whether because they were in the running earlier in the year or because they won't have their qualifying Los Angeles run in time for the following year's Oscars. In fact, some may never even get that chance. Besides, it's unclear how many of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' insular members actually know about the existence of the European Film Academy. Last year's Best Film and Best Director winner, Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, failed to receive a single Academy Award nomination despite mostly positive reviews from U.S. critics. Of the other five 2010 Best European Film nominees, only Juan José Campanella...
- 11/6/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Short Film Center which will take place alongside the 42nd International Film Festival of India, Goa announced its lineup.
Films selected under the Vasudha Award Competition Section are Save Earth by Prakash Mishra (india), Pachilakkkoodu (My Home is Green) by Sajan Sindhu (india), A Pestering Journey by K.R. Manoj(india) and Battle for Survival by Naresh Bedi(india).
Films selected under the International competition section are Khule Darwaaze (Open Doors) by Ashish Pandey (india), Raag Sarkari (bureacracy sonata) by Vinay Shukla (india), Another Planet by Smita Bhide (India), Unearthed by Karan Vazirani (india), Man of the Match by Hitesh Kewalya (india), Save the Girl Child by Sunil H. Naik (india), Inklab by Gaurav Chhabra (india), Anthony Gonsalves – The music legend by Ashoke Rane (india), Hot “n” Fast by Rajinder Singh Puller (india), Paper Planes by Neha Singh (india), Maple Syrup by Alexander N (USA), Crazy Beats Strong Every Time...
Films selected under the Vasudha Award Competition Section are Save Earth by Prakash Mishra (india), Pachilakkkoodu (My Home is Green) by Sajan Sindhu (india), A Pestering Journey by K.R. Manoj(india) and Battle for Survival by Naresh Bedi(india).
Films selected under the International competition section are Khule Darwaaze (Open Doors) by Ashish Pandey (india), Raag Sarkari (bureacracy sonata) by Vinay Shukla (india), Another Planet by Smita Bhide (India), Unearthed by Karan Vazirani (india), Man of the Match by Hitesh Kewalya (india), Save the Girl Child by Sunil H. Naik (india), Inklab by Gaurav Chhabra (india), Anthony Gonsalves – The music legend by Ashoke Rane (india), Hot “n” Fast by Rajinder Singh Puller (india), Paper Planes by Neha Singh (india), Maple Syrup by Alexander N (USA), Crazy Beats Strong Every Time...
- 11/4/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
As Venice International Film Festival began on Wednesday, DearCinema profiles for you the six screenwriters who will participate in the Nfdc Screenwriter’s Lab during the festival.
Screenwriter’s Lab, a 2-part workshop is conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) for the purpose of writing and selling original Indian screenplays in the international market. The workshop at Venice will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, Artistic Director, Binger Filmlab.
In the second of the series, Vasant Nath answers five questions about his project Sebastian Wants to Remember:
Tell us more about your story?
Sebastian Wants to Remember is the story of an aging photographer who loses his memory but remembers one woman who is someone other than his lifelong wife. It’s about how it becomes up to his wife to help him seek out that woman in order for him to regain his memory and thus, love her again.
Screenwriter’s Lab, a 2-part workshop is conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) for the purpose of writing and selling original Indian screenplays in the international market. The workshop at Venice will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, Artistic Director, Binger Filmlab.
In the second of the series, Vasant Nath answers five questions about his project Sebastian Wants to Remember:
Tell us more about your story?
Sebastian Wants to Remember is the story of an aging photographer who loses his memory but remembers one woman who is someone other than his lifelong wife. It’s about how it becomes up to his wife to help him seek out that woman in order for him to regain his memory and thus, love her again.
- 9/1/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Above: Milagros Mumenthaler's award-winner, Abrir Puertas y Ventanas.
Locarno is wrapping up its 64th edition tonight with an awards ceremony that spreads the wealth across nine features in the International Competition and the Cinema of the Present. In a year that was notable for several strong debut films, six of the nine awarded films are "opera primas." (Full disclosure: I served on this year's Opera Prima jury, with the Bangkok Post film critic Kong Rithdee and Le Film Francais correspondent Anthony Bobeau.) The Golden Leopard went to Milagros Mumenthaler's exceptionally confident Chekhovian debut, Abrir Puertas y Ventanas, which has been officially titled in English under the very poor Back to Stay, but which is subtitled on the print with the far better Open Doors, Open Windows, which also scored a prize for Maria Canale as best actress—an odd pick in my view, since the film is...
Locarno is wrapping up its 64th edition tonight with an awards ceremony that spreads the wealth across nine features in the International Competition and the Cinema of the Present. In a year that was notable for several strong debut films, six of the nine awarded films are "opera primas." (Full disclosure: I served on this year's Opera Prima jury, with the Bangkok Post film critic Kong Rithdee and Le Film Francais correspondent Anthony Bobeau.) The Golden Leopard went to Milagros Mumenthaler's exceptionally confident Chekhovian debut, Abrir Puertas y Ventanas, which has been officially titled in English under the very poor Back to Stay, but which is subtitled on the print with the far better Open Doors, Open Windows, which also scored a prize for Maria Canale as best actress—an odd pick in my view, since the film is...
- 8/13/2011
- MUBI
The 3rd edition of the International Film Festival Ahmedabad (Iffa) announced its lineup of feature films and short films in competition today.
Five films from the line-up will get a limited release under PVR’s new label: Director’s Cut & Director’s Rare.
Ketan Mehta’a Rang Rasiya will be the opening film of the festival while the festival will close with the Asian premiere of Anurag Kashyap’s That Girl in Yellow Boots.
Complete lineup:
Independent Short Film Competition Official Selection 2011
1. Linger by Shikha Makan
2. The Cabin Man by Ashish Pandey
3. Open Doors by Ashish Pandey
4. Visible Bra Straps by Ajitesh Sharma
5. Holy Cow by Vijay Nayyar
6. Kamera by Nijo Jonson
7. Shaji by Umair Hasan
8. The 4 Years Story And Storytellers by Sounak Kar
9. Kaveri by Shilpa Mumkempanna
10. To, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by Vrinda Kapoor
11. Vansh by Gargee Kulkarni
12. Potti Budankai by G. Trivikram
13. Better Way by Maac Ahmedabad
14. My...
Five films from the line-up will get a limited release under PVR’s new label: Director’s Cut & Director’s Rare.
Ketan Mehta’a Rang Rasiya will be the opening film of the festival while the festival will close with the Asian premiere of Anurag Kashyap’s That Girl in Yellow Boots.
Complete lineup:
Independent Short Film Competition Official Selection 2011
1. Linger by Shikha Makan
2. The Cabin Man by Ashish Pandey
3. Open Doors by Ashish Pandey
4. Visible Bra Straps by Ajitesh Sharma
5. Holy Cow by Vijay Nayyar
6. Kamera by Nijo Jonson
7. Shaji by Umair Hasan
8. The 4 Years Story And Storytellers by Sounak Kar
9. Kaveri by Shilpa Mumkempanna
10. To, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by Vrinda Kapoor
11. Vansh by Gargee Kulkarni
12. Potti Budankai by G. Trivikram
13. Better Way by Maac Ahmedabad
14. My...
- 8/12/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Locarno Open Doors was held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focused on India selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Alka Raghuram’s Burqa Boxers won a grant of 20,000 Swiss Francs at the lab. In the ninth in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
Alka Raghuram
Burqa Boxers is a documentary about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata.
In a culture where beauty, delicacy, refinement and submission are the prized traits to the ultimate feminine career fulfillment– marriage, young Muslim girls learn boxing at a little club run by Jamil Islam, former boxer, in Kiddirpur, Kolkata.
Burqa Boxers tells the story of these warriors determined to knock out a few stereotypes. Lead by Razia Shabnam, one of the first Indian women to be a coach and an international referee, it will...
Alka Raghuram
Burqa Boxers is a documentary about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata.
In a culture where beauty, delicacy, refinement and submission are the prized traits to the ultimate feminine career fulfillment– marriage, young Muslim girls learn boxing at a little club run by Jamil Islam, former boxer, in Kiddirpur, Kolkata.
Burqa Boxers tells the story of these warriors determined to knock out a few stereotypes. Lead by Razia Shabnam, one of the first Indian women to be a coach and an international referee, it will...
- 8/10/2011
- by Alka Raghuram
- DearCinema.com
Shanker Raman at Locarno
The Trapper’s Snare , a project by Shanker Raman who shot films like Peepli Live, Patang and Frozen won a grant of 30,000 Chf (Swiss Franc) at the Locarno Open Doors.
The awards for the 2011 Open Doors co-production lab were announced on Tuesday.
The Trapper’s Snare is the spiritual journey of a young boy who escapes his fate as a bird trapper, only to be caught in the snare of life.
The second grant worth 20,000 Chf went to Burqa Boxers directed and produced by Alka Raghuram. It is a documentary on women boxers in Kolkata.
Grant for development by Cnc (Centre National du cinéma et de l’image animée) amounting 7.000 Euros went to Lasya (The Gentle Dance) by Anup Singh. Read Locarno Open Doors: Anup Singh’s Lasya.
Grant for development by Arte worth 6.000 Euros was won by Char… The Island Within directed and produced by Sourav Sarangi.
The Trapper’s Snare , a project by Shanker Raman who shot films like Peepli Live, Patang and Frozen won a grant of 30,000 Chf (Swiss Franc) at the Locarno Open Doors.
The awards for the 2011 Open Doors co-production lab were announced on Tuesday.
The Trapper’s Snare is the spiritual journey of a young boy who escapes his fate as a bird trapper, only to be caught in the snare of life.
The second grant worth 20,000 Chf went to Burqa Boxers directed and produced by Alka Raghuram. It is a documentary on women boxers in Kolkata.
Grant for development by Cnc (Centre National du cinéma et de l’image animée) amounting 7.000 Euros went to Lasya (The Gentle Dance) by Anup Singh. Read Locarno Open Doors: Anup Singh’s Lasya.
Grant for development by Arte worth 6.000 Euros was won by Char… The Island Within directed and produced by Sourav Sarangi.
- 8/9/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Locarno (Switzerland), Aug 9: Mumbai-based Shanker Raman and San Francisco-based Alka Raghuram were Tuesday night named the winners of the Grant Open Doors prize at the award ceremony at the Locarno International Film Festival here. Both the filmmakers share the prize money of 50,000 Chf (approximately $67,466).
Shanker won 30,000 Chf (over $40,000) for his script 'The Trapper's Snare', a fiction film about the conflict in Sri Lanka. Alka walked away with 20,000 Chf (over $25,000) for her documentary 'Burqa Boxers', about young Muslim girls learning boxing at a gym in Kolkata and their determination to knock out a few.
Shanker won 30,000 Chf (over $40,000) for his script 'The Trapper's Snare', a fiction film about the conflict in Sri Lanka. Alka walked away with 20,000 Chf (over $25,000) for her documentary 'Burqa Boxers', about young Muslim girls learning boxing at a gym in Kolkata and their determination to knock out a few.
- 8/9/2011
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Locarno (Switzerland), Aug 9: Shanker Raman, a choreographer-turned-writer-turned-director, one of the winners of the Grand Open Doors for his script 'The Trapper's Snare' here, feels this is the best phase for Indian film writers. He also believes that the Indian audience is open to a 'different kind' of cinema.
'It feels fantastic to win the award. I'm delighted. What I'm going to take away from here is the experience of having met 11 other filmmakers from India, an incredible lot who have incredibly inspiring and courageous scripts and ideas,' Mumbai-based Raman told Ians.
He won the award and the prize money of 30,000 Chf.
'It feels fantastic to win the award. I'm delighted. What I'm going to take away from here is the experience of having met 11 other filmmakers from India, an incredible lot who have incredibly inspiring and courageous scripts and ideas,' Mumbai-based Raman told Ians.
He won the award and the prize money of 30,000 Chf.
- 8/9/2011
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Locarno Open Doors will be held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focuses on India has selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Ajay Raina’s Aharban Falls is one of them. A graduate from Ftii Pune, he has been making documentary films in Kashmir. In the seventh in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
My project Aharbal Falls is a love story where the lovers think that in order for them to stay together they must kill all the opposition. How they love, kill and manage to stay free propels the narrative flow of the film. The violence they unleash, believe in and take pleasure from is a reflection of the violence that they have internalized over two decades of violent conflict in Kashmir which is also, a metaphor for...
My project Aharbal Falls is a love story where the lovers think that in order for them to stay together they must kill all the opposition. How they love, kill and manage to stay free propels the narrative flow of the film. The violence they unleash, believe in and take pleasure from is a reflection of the violence that they have internalized over two decades of violent conflict in Kashmir which is also, a metaphor for...
- 8/9/2011
- by Ajay Raina
- DearCinema.com
Locarno (Switzerland), Aug 8: Apart from Bollywood song and dance, India is also seen as major economic player in Switzerland, Indian ambassador Chitra Narayanan said.
'India is seen as a major economic player here and Switzerland itself is a very large and important financial and industrial centre for technology in Europe, and they have lot of knowledge and interest in India,' Narayanan told Ians on the sidelights of the Open Doors section of the ongoing 64th Locarno International Film Festival.
'It is not just Swiss business, European business.
'India is seen as a major economic player here and Switzerland itself is a very large and important financial and industrial centre for technology in Europe, and they have lot of knowledge and interest in India,' Narayanan told Ians on the sidelights of the Open Doors section of the ongoing 64th Locarno International Film Festival.
'It is not just Swiss business, European business.
- 8/8/2011
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Locarno Open Doors will be held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focuses on India has selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Sourav Sarangi’s Char, The Island Within is one of them. His documentary Bilal won the National Award for Best Non-Feature Film in 2010. In the sixth in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
Many moons ago a deluge with fishes and tortoises descended from heaven called river Ganga!
Today the river acts as the international border between India and Bangladesh.
Rubel lives on this border. His family shifted to a tiny and fragile island called Char within the river after their home got eroded years back. The fourteen years kid smuggles rice to survive by crossing the border.
In summer, wind blows strong in this changing landscape, the clouds roll and monsoon arrives.
Many moons ago a deluge with fishes and tortoises descended from heaven called river Ganga!
Today the river acts as the international border between India and Bangladesh.
Rubel lives on this border. His family shifted to a tiny and fragile island called Char within the river after their home got eroded years back. The fourteen years kid smuggles rice to survive by crossing the border.
In summer, wind blows strong in this changing landscape, the clouds roll and monsoon arrives.
- 8/8/2011
- by Sourav Sarangi
- DearCinema.com
Locarno (Switzerland), Aug 8: A bouquet of films from India, from different genres and regions, is being showcased at the 64th Locarno International Film Festival here in an effort to dispel the notion that the Indian film industry, one of the largest in the world, means just Bollywood song and dance.
'The aim was to familiarise the Locarno audience and give them an overview of the development of Indian cinema. Now that's very difficult when you think of what a vast country we are and to do it in about 13-15 films,' said Uma Da Cuna, programmer for the Indian films at the Open Doors section at the ongoing fest.
'So.
'The aim was to familiarise the Locarno audience and give them an overview of the development of Indian cinema. Now that's very difficult when you think of what a vast country we are and to do it in about 13-15 films,' said Uma Da Cuna, programmer for the Indian films at the Open Doors section at the ongoing fest.
'So.
- 8/8/2011
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
A bouquet of films from India, from different genres and regions, is being showcased at the 64th Locarno International Film Festival here in an effort to dispel the notion that the Indian film industry, one of the largest in the world, means just Bollywood song and dance. .The aim was to familiarise the Locarno audience and give them an overview of the development of Indian cinema. Now that.s very difficult when you think of what a vast country we are and to do it in about 13-15 films,. said Uma Da Cuna, programmer for the Indian films at the Open Doors section at the ongoing fest. .So I started with silent cinema .Prapancha Pash. (1929) by Franz Osten and from there we went progressively to Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor. It can.t be a very comprehensive programme, but just enough to show over the decade what we were doing,...
- 8/8/2011
- Filmicafe
Locarno Open Doors will be held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focuses on India has selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Lilium Leonard’s Thread is one of them. This project is the extension of her award-winning diploma film Thread at the Ftii. In the fifth in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
Thread is a fairy tale exploring the extraordinary relationship of two young girls who are both the seamstresses and the contortionists of an Indian circus, two beings which seem to form one and who are slowly moving apart till one of them decides to sew herself to her partner to avoid losing her.
I am currently at the early writing stage of the project, developing the first version of the script.
At Locarno co-production lab, I...
Thread is a fairy tale exploring the extraordinary relationship of two young girls who are both the seamstresses and the contortionists of an Indian circus, two beings which seem to form one and who are slowly moving apart till one of them decides to sew herself to her partner to avoid losing her.
I am currently at the early writing stage of the project, developing the first version of the script.
At Locarno co-production lab, I...
- 8/7/2011
- by Lilium Leonard
- DearCinema.com
Locarno Open Doors will be held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focuses on India has selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday) is one of them. Partho has been collecting funds for Sunrise through crowd-funding. In the fourth in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
Sunrise tells the universal story of the loss of a child, of parental grief. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, takes us into his dreams, nightmares and memories. He errs in the streets of Mumbai chasing an elusive figure that steals the children. The film approaches the taboo subject of child trafficking and abuse.
The film has non-linear narration and will be shot with a very small unit on Hdslr cameras fitted with Cine prime lenses.
Sunrise tells the universal story of the loss of a child, of parental grief. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, takes us into his dreams, nightmares and memories. He errs in the streets of Mumbai chasing an elusive figure that steals the children. The film approaches the taboo subject of child trafficking and abuse.
The film has non-linear narration and will be shot with a very small unit on Hdslr cameras fitted with Cine prime lenses.
- 8/6/2011
- by Partho Sengupta
- DearCinema.com
Locarno Open Doors will be held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focuses on India, has selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Anup Singh’s The Gentle Dance (Lasya) is one of them. Singh is an Ftii graduate and his debut feature was a love story of two refugees titled The Name of a River. In the third in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
A still from Lasya
The Gentle Dance (Lasya) is about the city of Mumbai when the rains come. As the streets flood, a beggar-child is fatally hit by a truck. Her young mother determines to fulfill her promise to the child and find the father who had deserted them a long time ago. She sets off with the child’s body on a journey through...
A still from Lasya
The Gentle Dance (Lasya) is about the city of Mumbai when the rains come. As the streets flood, a beggar-child is fatally hit by a truck. Her young mother determines to fulfill her promise to the child and find the father who had deserted them a long time ago. She sets off with the child’s body on a journey through...
- 8/5/2011
- by Anup Singh
- DearCinema.com
A Pestering Journey by K.R. manoj won the Best Long Documentary while There is Something in the Air by Iram Gufran won the Best Short Documentary at the 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala.
Kaveri by Shilpa Munikempanna won the Best Short Film.
The festival was held from July 31-August 4, 2011 and had received a total of 625 entries.
Complete list of awards:
Best Long Documentary: A Pestering Journey by K.R. Manoj
Best Short Documentary: There is Something in the Air by Iram Gufran
Best Short Fiction: Kaveri by Shilpa Munikempanna
Best Music Video: Sitaharan and the Stories by Anusha Nandakumar
Best Animation Film: Journey to Nagaland by Aditi Chitre
Best Documentary Cameraman: Shehanad Jalal for A Pestering Journey
Best Short Fiction Cameraman: Barun D Jordar for Open Doors
Special Jury Mention
Sound Design:
Aditi Chitre and Preetham Das for Journey to Nagaland
Animation:
It is the...
Kaveri by Shilpa Munikempanna won the Best Short Film.
The festival was held from July 31-August 4, 2011 and had received a total of 625 entries.
Complete list of awards:
Best Long Documentary: A Pestering Journey by K.R. Manoj
Best Short Documentary: There is Something in the Air by Iram Gufran
Best Short Fiction: Kaveri by Shilpa Munikempanna
Best Music Video: Sitaharan and the Stories by Anusha Nandakumar
Best Animation Film: Journey to Nagaland by Aditi Chitre
Best Documentary Cameraman: Shehanad Jalal for A Pestering Journey
Best Short Fiction Cameraman: Barun D Jordar for Open Doors
Special Jury Mention
Sound Design:
Aditi Chitre and Preetham Das for Journey to Nagaland
Animation:
It is the...
- 8/5/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Locarno Open Doors will be held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focuses on India, has selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Satish Manwar’s Jat Panchayat is one of them. Manwar’s debut feature Gabhricha Paus premiered at Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2009. In the second in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
My project Jat Panchayat is about social systems, judicial systems; basically about power systems that govern human life. Above all, it’s about human nature. Every system consists of its rules and regulations, which are at variance from group to group. Yet power structures operate in the same inhuman, dispassionate manner. The structure of the film is that of a road movie and it will explore the life style and belief systems of Nomads from India.
My project Jat Panchayat is about social systems, judicial systems; basically about power systems that govern human life. Above all, it’s about human nature. Every system consists of its rules and regulations, which are at variance from group to group. Yet power structures operate in the same inhuman, dispassionate manner. The structure of the film is that of a road movie and it will explore the life style and belief systems of Nomads from India.
- 8/4/2011
- by Satish Manwar
- DearCinema.com
Locarno Open Doors will be held alongside the 64th Locarno International Film Festival from August 6-9, 2011. Open Doors 2011 that focuses on India, has selected 12 projects for its co-production lab. Sidharth Srinivasan’s Samaadhi (The Penance) is one of them. Srinivasan’s debut feature Pairon Talle premiered at Toronto last year followed by an European premiere at Rotterdam. In the first in the series, DearCinema brings to you details about the filmmaker and the project, in the words of the filmmaker:
Sidharth Srinivasan
I am an independent filmmaker who writes and directs his own material. My latest project Samaadhi (The Penance) is an elevated genre film – a truly Indian horror film that also plays as a family drama. It is a film that explores very rooted notions of transience, impermanence and family ties – notions that are so peculiar to the subcontinent.
This project is currently at an advanced stage of development.
Sidharth Srinivasan
I am an independent filmmaker who writes and directs his own material. My latest project Samaadhi (The Penance) is an elevated genre film – a truly Indian horror film that also plays as a family drama. It is a film that explores very rooted notions of transience, impermanence and family ties – notions that are so peculiar to the subcontinent.
This project is currently at an advanced stage of development.
- 8/3/2011
- by Sidharth Srinivasan
- DearCinema.com
A still from Aag
India has much to look forward to, at the 64th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival that begins on Wednesday, July 3, 2011. The festival has lined up quite an eclectic and exciting mix of Indian films; from the masters Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak to the contemporary Umesh Kulkarni and Vikramaditya Motwane.
Locarno Open Doors, an initiative that focuses on a region where independent cinema is in developmental stage every year has its eyes set firmly on India in the 2012 edition.
A still from Udaan
Open Doors screening will present thirteen “Indian classics” which include Raj Kapoor’s Aag, Jahnu Barua’s Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (The Yellow Birds), Girish Kasaravalli’s Kanasembo Kudureyaneri (Riding the Stallion of a Dream), Shyam Benegal’s Manthan, Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara, Aparna Sen’s Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar, Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Nizalkkuthu...
India has much to look forward to, at the 64th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival that begins on Wednesday, July 3, 2011. The festival has lined up quite an eclectic and exciting mix of Indian films; from the masters Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak to the contemporary Umesh Kulkarni and Vikramaditya Motwane.
Locarno Open Doors, an initiative that focuses on a region where independent cinema is in developmental stage every year has its eyes set firmly on India in the 2012 edition.
A still from Udaan
Open Doors screening will present thirteen “Indian classics” which include Raj Kapoor’s Aag, Jahnu Barua’s Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (The Yellow Birds), Girish Kasaravalli’s Kanasembo Kudureyaneri (Riding the Stallion of a Dream), Shyam Benegal’s Manthan, Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara, Aparna Sen’s Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar, Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Nizalkkuthu...
- 8/2/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
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