Films Division India will organize ‘Baapu’ a festival of films and arts on Mahatma Gandhi from 2nd to 5th October, 2012. This is to commemorate the 143rd birth anniversary of the Mahatma. The festival will be held at the Rr Theatre, Films Division, Mumbai. Veteran film maker Shyam Benegal will inaugurate the event.
Registration starts from 10 am on 2nd October, 2012.
The festival includes Baapu Bhajans, screening of feature films, documentaries, slide show and interactive sessions with renowned film makers. Some of the feature films are Gandhi, The Making of The Mahatma, Gandhi My Father, Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara and Lage Raho Munna Bhai. While some of the documentaries are Lines of Mahatma, Gandhi An Emerging Reality, Gandhiji through the Eyes of the Cartoonist, Gandhi, Nehru and Modern Art, Gandhiji’s letter to Hitler and Places where Gandhiji lived.
Renowned cineastes Jahnu Barua, Anupam Kher, Feroz Abbas Khan, Rohini Hattangady, Darshan Jariwala...
Registration starts from 10 am on 2nd October, 2012.
The festival includes Baapu Bhajans, screening of feature films, documentaries, slide show and interactive sessions with renowned film makers. Some of the feature films are Gandhi, The Making of The Mahatma, Gandhi My Father, Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara and Lage Raho Munna Bhai. While some of the documentaries are Lines of Mahatma, Gandhi An Emerging Reality, Gandhiji through the Eyes of the Cartoonist, Gandhi, Nehru and Modern Art, Gandhiji’s letter to Hitler and Places where Gandhiji lived.
Renowned cineastes Jahnu Barua, Anupam Kher, Feroz Abbas Khan, Rohini Hattangady, Darshan Jariwala...
- 10/1/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Persistence Resistance 2011: Documentary Practices in India, a festival of documentary films will be held in London from November 1-8, 2011.
“While we start with a focus on Indian documentary practice to create a more informed ground to explore its specific histories, styles and provocations, the aim is to explore further political and aesthetic affiliations across geographical locations and disciplines,” reads a statement on the official website of the festival.
Filmmaker like Arun Khopkar, Deepa Dhanraj, Rahul Roy, Rajula and Shah Saba Dewan, from India, Yasmine Kabir from Bangladesh, as well as UK based filmmakers John Wyver, Mairead McClean, Mao Mollona, Margaret Dickinson and Simon Chambers and will be joined by, and be in conversations with, Alisa Lebow, Alpa Shah, Guilia Battaglia, Laura Bear, Lotte Hoek, Lucia King, Nicole Wolf, Partha Mitter, Radha D’Souza, Ravi Vasudevan, Ros Gray, Rosie Thomas, Stephen Hughes, Stewart Motha and Ziba Mir Hosseini.
The documentaries...
“While we start with a focus on Indian documentary practice to create a more informed ground to explore its specific histories, styles and provocations, the aim is to explore further political and aesthetic affiliations across geographical locations and disciplines,” reads a statement on the official website of the festival.
Filmmaker like Arun Khopkar, Deepa Dhanraj, Rahul Roy, Rajula and Shah Saba Dewan, from India, Yasmine Kabir from Bangladesh, as well as UK based filmmakers John Wyver, Mairead McClean, Mao Mollona, Margaret Dickinson and Simon Chambers and will be joined by, and be in conversations with, Alisa Lebow, Alpa Shah, Guilia Battaglia, Laura Bear, Lotte Hoek, Lucia King, Nicole Wolf, Partha Mitter, Radha D’Souza, Ravi Vasudevan, Ros Gray, Rosie Thomas, Stephen Hughes, Stewart Motha and Ziba Mir Hosseini.
The documentaries...
- 10/22/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from Duvidha
A Retrospective of the works of Indian auteur Mani Kaul will be organized from September 16, 2011 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Most of the films will be shown on 35 mm prints borrowed from the National Film archive of India (Nfai).
The Retrospective will commence with Nazar which will be presented at 7 p.m. on September 16.
The schedule of the event:
Sept 16: 7:00pm
Nazar
(1990/124 min/Hindi)
Cast : Shekhar Kapur, Sambhavi, Surekha Sikri
Aruna Vasudev will speak a few words on the occasion.
Sept 17: 6:45pm
The Nomad Puppeteer
(20 min/English)
A short documentary
7:00pm
Dhrupad
(1983/72 min/Hindi)
Featuring: Fariduddin Dagar, Zia Mohiyuddin Dagar
Introduction by Om Thanvi, author and Editor – Jan Satta
Sept 18: 11:30am
Duvidha
(Hindi/82mins/1973)
Cast: Ravi Menon, Raisa Padamsee
1:00pm
Uski Roti
(1969/95 min/Hindi)
Cast: Garima & Gurdeep Singh
Introduction by Madan Gopal Singh, Sufi singer...
A Retrospective of the works of Indian auteur Mani Kaul will be organized from September 16, 2011 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Most of the films will be shown on 35 mm prints borrowed from the National Film archive of India (Nfai).
The Retrospective will commence with Nazar which will be presented at 7 p.m. on September 16.
The schedule of the event:
Sept 16: 7:00pm
Nazar
(1990/124 min/Hindi)
Cast : Shekhar Kapur, Sambhavi, Surekha Sikri
Aruna Vasudev will speak a few words on the occasion.
Sept 17: 6:45pm
The Nomad Puppeteer
(20 min/English)
A short documentary
7:00pm
Dhrupad
(1983/72 min/Hindi)
Featuring: Fariduddin Dagar, Zia Mohiyuddin Dagar
Introduction by Om Thanvi, author and Editor – Jan Satta
Sept 18: 11:30am
Duvidha
(Hindi/82mins/1973)
Cast: Ravi Menon, Raisa Padamsee
1:00pm
Uski Roti
(1969/95 min/Hindi)
Cast: Garima & Gurdeep Singh
Introduction by Madan Gopal Singh, Sufi singer...
- 9/14/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
“The biggest problem for documentary filmmakers in India is distribution. There is hardly any formal set-up for distribution and exhibition of documentaries in an organized manner. For that reason, filmmakers have to wear many caps simultaneously.”
Indian documentaries garner acclaim and awards at international film festivals but find little success when it comes to braving the distribution chain to reach the common audiences in India. Think about watching a documentary and one can only think of screenings at some select cultural hubs or college campuses. The notion that documentary films have few takers is fast changing, but has that made documentary filmmaking and distribution a less inconvenient and more commercially viable option?
Saba Dewan is a Delhi based filmmaker whose documentaries Dharmayuddha (Holy War, 1989), Nasoor (Festering Wound, 1991), Khel (The Play, 1994), Barf (Snow, 1997), Sita’s Family (2001), Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi (2006) and Naach (The Dance, 2008)have been screened in several Indian and international film festivals.
Indian documentaries garner acclaim and awards at international film festivals but find little success when it comes to braving the distribution chain to reach the common audiences in India. Think about watching a documentary and one can only think of screenings at some select cultural hubs or college campuses. The notion that documentary films have few takers is fast changing, but has that made documentary filmmaking and distribution a less inconvenient and more commercially viable option?
Saba Dewan is a Delhi based filmmaker whose documentaries Dharmayuddha (Holy War, 1989), Nasoor (Festering Wound, 1991), Khel (The Play, 1994), Barf (Snow, 1997), Sita’s Family (2001), Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi (2006) and Naach (The Dance, 2008)have been screened in several Indian and international film festivals.
- 6/22/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
A workshop on Crowd Funding for production and distribution of documentaries will be conducted in the 4th edition of Persistence Resistance film festival. The 2011 Persistence Resistance: Edge of Visual Narrative will be held from February 7-10, 2011 in India International Centre, New Delhi.
This workshop will be conducted on February 8 by Charlie Phillip, director of Markets at Sheffield Doc fest and Jamie King, director Vodo, an on-line distribution platform. Peter Wintonick, from Canada; award winning filmmaker and creator of several public access digital archives, will moderate the workshop.
The festival will screen more than 80 documentary films. Retrospectives of filmmakers Rahul Roy, Kim Longinotto and Arun Khopkar will be held in the festival.
There will be Special packages from Doc Alliance films brought by Dok Leipzig, Selection from London International Documentary Festival and Student films from Zelig School, Italy. The other highlight of the festival is selected films from South Korea curated...
This workshop will be conducted on February 8 by Charlie Phillip, director of Markets at Sheffield Doc fest and Jamie King, director Vodo, an on-line distribution platform. Peter Wintonick, from Canada; award winning filmmaker and creator of several public access digital archives, will moderate the workshop.
The festival will screen more than 80 documentary films. Retrospectives of filmmakers Rahul Roy, Kim Longinotto and Arun Khopkar will be held in the festival.
There will be Special packages from Doc Alliance films brought by Dok Leipzig, Selection from London International Documentary Festival and Student films from Zelig School, Italy. The other highlight of the festival is selected films from South Korea curated...
- 1/28/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Mumbai, Oct 25 – The highlight of the Mumbai Film Festival this year has been the amazing retrospective of Japanese cinema. And giving thumbs up to the same was none other than Takashi Koizumi, Akira Kurosawa’s assistant director for 20 years before the master’s death.
‘This showcase should be done in Japan so that Japanese people can see it too,’ Koizumi said at a seminar on Japanese cinema here.
Writer, filmmaker and historian Arun Khopkar eulogizing the old Japanese masters, said: ‘These are not just great.
‘This showcase should be done in Japan so that Japanese people can see it too,’ Koizumi said at a seminar on Japanese cinema here.
Writer, filmmaker and historian Arun Khopkar eulogizing the old Japanese masters, said: ‘These are not just great.
- 10/25/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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