Eight projects of multiple genres, including magic realism, fantasy, horror/thriller, women’s empowerment, cross-border politics, Lgtbq+ issues, and mental illness, have been selected for the 16th edition of Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab, an ongoing initiative to develop, nurture, and promote original voices from all over India. The eight screen writers, who also happen to be filmmakers of ad films, short films, documentaries, and feature films, have written the selected scripts in multiple languages, including Hindi, Marathi, English, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, Odia, and Tibetan.
Two of the writers are National Award Winners for “Best Marathi Film” and “Best Cinematography.”
“We, at Nfdc, strongly feel that a well-written script forms the foundation of a compelling story, engaging characters, and meaningful dialogue, all of which are essential elements of a successful film.” said Mr. Prithul Kumar, Managing Director of Nfdc.
“We are at the forefront of not only training our writers to better develop their unique stories,...
Two of the writers are National Award Winners for “Best Marathi Film” and “Best Cinematography.”
“We, at Nfdc, strongly feel that a well-written script forms the foundation of a compelling story, engaging characters, and meaningful dialogue, all of which are essential elements of a successful film.” said Mr. Prithul Kumar, Managing Director of Nfdc.
“We are at the forefront of not only training our writers to better develop their unique stories,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
Eight projects of multiple genres, including magic realism, fantasy, horror/thriller, women’s empowerment, cross-border politics, Lgtbq+ issues, and mental illness, have been selected for the 16th edition of Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab, an ongoing initiative to develop, nurture, and promote original voices from all over India. The eight screen writers, who also happen to be filmmakers of ad films, short films, documentaries, and feature films, have written the selected scripts in multiple languages, including Hindi, Marathi, English, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, Odia, and Tibetan.
Two of the writers are National Award Winners for “Best Marathi Film” and “Best Cinematography.”
“We, at Nfdc, strongly feel that a well-written script forms the foundation of a compelling story, engaging characters, and meaningful dialogue, all of which are essential elements of a successful film.” said Mr. Prithul Kumar, Managing Director of Nfdc.
“We are at the forefront of not only training our writers to better develop their unique stories,...
Two of the writers are National Award Winners for “Best Marathi Film” and “Best Cinematography.”
“We, at Nfdc, strongly feel that a well-written script forms the foundation of a compelling story, engaging characters, and meaningful dialogue, all of which are essential elements of a successful film.” said Mr. Prithul Kumar, Managing Director of Nfdc.
“We are at the forefront of not only training our writers to better develop their unique stories,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Editorial Desk
Stars Acting Up At Busan
Oscar-winning Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung will headline the Actors’ House section of the upcoming Busan International Film Festival, it was announced on Thursday.
Introduced in 2021, Actors’ House is a special series that connects audiences and film enthusiasts with iconic actors from the current generation through its in-depth discussions. “There’s much anticipation to hear her words of wisdom, as she’s known for her insightful observations,” said the festival.
Others this year include: Han Hyo-joo, Song Joong-ki and Korean-American actor and author John Cho. Han is known for performances in 2015’s “The Beauty Inside,” “W” (2016), “Happiness (2021), and last year’s “The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure.” She will be in Busan with Netflix-backed “Believer 2” and recently appeared in the Disney+ original series, “Moving.”
Song, who hosted the 2021 Busan festival’s opening ceremony, was recently seen in “Hopeless,” one of the handful of Korean films in Cannes this year.
Oscar-winning Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung will headline the Actors’ House section of the upcoming Busan International Film Festival, it was announced on Thursday.
Introduced in 2021, Actors’ House is a special series that connects audiences and film enthusiasts with iconic actors from the current generation through its in-depth discussions. “There’s much anticipation to hear her words of wisdom, as she’s known for her insightful observations,” said the festival.
Others this year include: Han Hyo-joo, Song Joong-ki and Korean-American actor and author John Cho. Han is known for performances in 2015’s “The Beauty Inside,” “W” (2016), “Happiness (2021), and last year’s “The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure.” She will be in Busan with Netflix-backed “Believer 2” and recently appeared in the Disney+ original series, “Moving.”
Song, who hosted the 2021 Busan festival’s opening ceremony, was recently seen in “Hopeless,” one of the handful of Korean films in Cannes this year.
- 9/14/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Malaysia’s Rajendran brothers, producer Kumanavannan and director Gogularaajan, are angry and have a divinity-tinged story to tell.
Tamil and Malay-language project “Depth of Darkness” (“Kaali”) comes to India’s Film Bazaar co-production market from Busan, where in October, it won the development award at incubator program Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab), an initiative supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas), the Singapore Film Commission (Sfc), the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and Taiwan Creative Content Agency (Taicca).
“Depth of Darkness” is set in the 1960s, in a secluded Malaysian oil palm plantation which borders a thick forest. Kaali, an innocent, young wife and plantation worker of the Tamil diaspora community yearns to be a mother but is unable to conceive. This subjects her to the oppression of her own society and family. A series of tragic events lead Kaali to realize the...
Tamil and Malay-language project “Depth of Darkness” (“Kaali”) comes to India’s Film Bazaar co-production market from Busan, where in October, it won the development award at incubator program Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab), an initiative supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas), the Singapore Film Commission (Sfc), the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and Taiwan Creative Content Agency (Taicca).
“Depth of Darkness” is set in the 1960s, in a secluded Malaysian oil palm plantation which borders a thick forest. Kaali, an innocent, young wife and plantation worker of the Tamil diaspora community yearns to be a mother but is unable to conceive. This subjects her to the oppression of her own society and family. A series of tragic events lead Kaali to realize the...
- 11/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap will be serving as directing mentor along with fellow filmmakers Anthony Chen, Ifa Isfansyah, Joko Anwar and Ho Yuhang, for the ongoing Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab) initiative at the Busan International Film Festival.
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking, reports Variety.
An incubator programme for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
According to Variety, the programme is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp...
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking, reports Variety.
An incubator programme for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
According to Variety, the programme is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp...
- 10/6/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Celebrated filmmakers Anthony Chen (“Wet Season”), Anurag Kashyap (“Dobaaraa”), Ifa Isfansyah (“Losmen Bu Broto”), Joko Anwar (“Impetigore”) and Ho Yuhang (“The Ghost Bride”) are serving as directing mentors for the ongoing Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab) initiative at the Busan International Film Festival.
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in depth conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking.
An incubator program for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
The program is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines...
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in depth conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking.
An incubator program for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
The program is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines...
- 10/6/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The New Zealand International Film Festival will return to an in-person event this year, but in a scaled-down format. It will operate in multiple cities between July 28 and Sept. 4, 2022.
Management explained the downsizing as both a reaction to the impact of Covid-19 and as a means to bouncing back bigger in 2023.
It operated as a hybrid festival in 2020 and then in 2021 in cinemas in 11 towns and cities. But it was forced to cancel screenings in Auckland and Hamilton due to the last year’s lockdowns. Capacity reductions in other venues “had a significant impact on our gross revenue.”
The 2022 festival will visit Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Hawke’s Bay, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Masterton, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin and Gore.
The temporary format means fewer films, fewer venues (particularly in Auckland and Wellington), a shorter duration in each city, a smaller team delivering the festival and reduced above-the-line marketing activity.
Management explained the downsizing as both a reaction to the impact of Covid-19 and as a means to bouncing back bigger in 2023.
It operated as a hybrid festival in 2020 and then in 2021 in cinemas in 11 towns and cities. But it was forced to cancel screenings in Auckland and Hamilton due to the last year’s lockdowns. Capacity reductions in other venues “had a significant impact on our gross revenue.”
The 2022 festival will visit Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Hawke’s Bay, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Masterton, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin and Gore.
The temporary format means fewer films, fewer venues (particularly in Auckland and Wellington), a shorter duration in each city, a smaller team delivering the festival and reduced above-the-line marketing activity.
- 3/24/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Marten Rabarts has stepped down as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff), and is moving on to take up a key role in a new film and arts project in Europe.
Rabarts’ decision to leave the role was taken some months ago but he deferred it until he had delivered the current edition of the festival, which is ongoing.
Festival chair Catherine Fitzgerald said that Rabarts was appointed with a vision to bring new and exciting developments to the festival, however with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, these became impossible and just the delivery of the festivals was a challenge. The 2020 edition of the festival was hybrid, while the current edition is in-person, with the Auckland and Hamilton legs having to be canceled due to pandemic restrictions.
During his tenure at Nziff, Rabarts executed a number of initiatives to boost its international visibility including, making it...
Rabarts’ decision to leave the role was taken some months ago but he deferred it until he had delivered the current edition of the festival, which is ongoing.
Festival chair Catherine Fitzgerald said that Rabarts was appointed with a vision to bring new and exciting developments to the festival, however with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, these became impossible and just the delivery of the festivals was a challenge. The 2020 edition of the festival was hybrid, while the current edition is in-person, with the Auckland and Hamilton legs having to be canceled due to pandemic restrictions.
During his tenure at Nziff, Rabarts executed a number of initiatives to boost its international visibility including, making it...
- 11/20/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The New Zealand International Film Festival had to cancel the Auckland leg of its multi-city exhibition series, but will continue in Wellington and Christchurch and other regional stops with a diverse lineup that includes an impressive Asian selection.
Wellington will screen a total of 164 feature films from 51 countries over 18 days (Nov. 4-21) across its eight venues. Christchurch will screen 95 features from 37 countries.
International highlights include Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Zhang Yimou’s “One Second,” and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Oscars contender Jasmila Zbanic’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Germany’s Oscar contender, Maria Schrader’s “I’m Your Man,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” and “My Salinger Year” also screen. So too does Jane Campion’s U.S.-set, New Zealand-made “The Power of the Dog.” The middle of the festival includes Cannes Palme D’or winner “Titane” and Paulo Sorrentino’s Venice grand...
Wellington will screen a total of 164 feature films from 51 countries over 18 days (Nov. 4-21) across its eight venues. Christchurch will screen 95 features from 37 countries.
International highlights include Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Zhang Yimou’s “One Second,” and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Oscars contender Jasmila Zbanic’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Germany’s Oscar contender, Maria Schrader’s “I’m Your Man,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” and “My Salinger Year” also screen. So too does Jane Campion’s U.S.-set, New Zealand-made “The Power of the Dog.” The middle of the festival includes Cannes Palme D’or winner “Titane” and Paulo Sorrentino’s Venice grand...
- 10/12/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has revealed 12 local titles that will play at the festival this year.
The films include eight documentaries, two dramas and two retrospective films and seven of them are world premieres. Following its U.S. premiere on HBO Max, Jan Oliver Lucks’ “There Is No I in Threesome” will have its theatrical world premiere at the festival.
Films also include Michelle Savill’s “Millie Lies Low”; Luit Bieringa’s “Signed, Theo Schoon”; Peter Bell Brook’s “Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life”; and Lula Cucchiara “Fiona Clark: Unafraid.”
Briar March’s “Mothers of the Revolution”; a restored and remastered version of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita’s landmark film “Patu!”; Tu Neill’s “Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life”; John Mills and Aileen O’Sullivan’s “Whetu Marama – Bright Star”; Kathleen Gallagher’s “Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp, the Sacred Place” And Dr. Annie Goldson...
The films include eight documentaries, two dramas and two retrospective films and seven of them are world premieres. Following its U.S. premiere on HBO Max, Jan Oliver Lucks’ “There Is No I in Threesome” will have its theatrical world premiere at the festival.
Films also include Michelle Savill’s “Millie Lies Low”; Luit Bieringa’s “Signed, Theo Schoon”; Peter Bell Brook’s “Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life”; and Lula Cucchiara “Fiona Clark: Unafraid.”
Briar March’s “Mothers of the Revolution”; a restored and remastered version of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita’s landmark film “Patu!”; Tu Neill’s “Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life”; John Mills and Aileen O’Sullivan’s “Whetu Marama – Bright Star”; Kathleen Gallagher’s “Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp, the Sacred Place” And Dr. Annie Goldson...
- 9/9/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Upcoming festival dates shifted from July to October.
The New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has shifted the dates of its 2021 edition from July to October, to ensure it can screen features selected by the Cannes Film Festival which hopes to take place in July this year.
Organisers plan to host a physical event in 30 cinemas across 13 towns and cities, after last year’s edition took place as a hybrid model, when most of the films premiered online due to the pandemic.
But while the festival usually begins in July or August, this year’s edition will launch on October...
The New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has shifted the dates of its 2021 edition from July to October, to ensure it can screen features selected by the Cannes Film Festival which hopes to take place in July this year.
Organisers plan to host a physical event in 30 cinemas across 13 towns and cities, after last year’s edition took place as a hybrid model, when most of the films premiered online due to the pandemic.
But while the festival usually begins in July or August, this year’s edition will launch on October...
- 3/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Upcoming festival dates shifted from July to October.
The New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has shifted the dates of its 2021 edition from July to October, to ensure it can screen features selected by the Cannes Film Festival.
Organisers plan to host a physical event in 30 cinemas across 13 towns and cities, after last year’s edition took place as a hybrid model, when most of the films premiered online due to the pandemic.
But while the festival usually begins in July or August, this year’s edition will launch on October 28 in Auckland before travelling to further locations until December...
The New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has shifted the dates of its 2021 edition from July to October, to ensure it can screen features selected by the Cannes Film Festival.
Organisers plan to host a physical event in 30 cinemas across 13 towns and cities, after last year’s edition took place as a hybrid model, when most of the films premiered online due to the pandemic.
But while the festival usually begins in July or August, this year’s edition will launch on October 28 in Auckland before travelling to further locations until December...
- 3/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Nfdc deputy general manager and former Film Bazaar director died on May 17, aged 47.
Tributes from the Indian and international film industry have been flooding in for Raja Chhinal, deputy general manager of India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), who died on May 17, aged 47.
Chhinal passed away at Blk Hospital in Delhi where he was receiving treatment after suffering from a brain abscess and undergoing surgery for the infection. A funeral service was held in Delhi today. He is survived by his wife Menaka and twin daughters Vanna and Vania.
A tireless campaigner for independent Indian cinema, Chhinal was a...
Tributes from the Indian and international film industry have been flooding in for Raja Chhinal, deputy general manager of India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), who died on May 17, aged 47.
Chhinal passed away at Blk Hospital in Delhi where he was receiving treatment after suffering from a brain abscess and undergoing surgery for the infection. A funeral service was held in Delhi today. He is survived by his wife Menaka and twin daughters Vanna and Vania.
A tireless campaigner for independent Indian cinema, Chhinal was a...
- 5/19/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The 2020 edition of the New Zealand International Film Festival will take place entirely online, after organizers conceded that the coronavirus crisis has made it impossible to pull off a conventional festival in theaters.
“Nziff At Home – Online will be a true film festival experience featuring world and New Zealand premieres of films each night, and including virtual red-carpet, and filmmaker Q&As and we can potentially invite more international guests to present their films to our festival audiences than ever before using virtual means,” said Marten Rabarts, festival director who is curating his first edition.
“Some films will be screened as special ‘one-off’ events, and many of the films presented will be exclusive to Nziff and won’t have other New Zealand screenings.”
Organizers said that Rabarts has received has assurances from key film distributors in Australia, New Zealand and around the world that they are committed to making the online edition work well.
“Nziff At Home – Online will be a true film festival experience featuring world and New Zealand premieres of films each night, and including virtual red-carpet, and filmmaker Q&As and we can potentially invite more international guests to present their films to our festival audiences than ever before using virtual means,” said Marten Rabarts, festival director who is curating his first edition.
“Some films will be screened as special ‘one-off’ events, and many of the films presented will be exclusive to Nziff and won’t have other New Zealand screenings.”
Organizers said that Rabarts has received has assurances from key film distributors in Australia, New Zealand and around the world that they are committed to making the online edition work well.
- 4/30/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The fourth edition of the International Film Festival & Award kicked off in fine style Thursday night. The opening night event allowed plenty of chance for mingling before and after a quadri-lingual ceremony that still managed to wrap up in just 45 minutes.
After a trio of tenors opened proceedings with “Over The Rainbow” it was evident that glamour and celebration were the intended take-aways, not the challenging themes presented by several of the Iffam’s selected films, and certainly not political discourse.
Macau is the well-behaved Special Administrative Region, just a ferry ride away from Hong Kong, the larger and more troublesome S.A.R. which these days stands as the front line of the ongoing clash between liberal democracy and China’s authoritarian version of economic development.
Outside the breathless ceremony, security guards were highly visible and widely dispersed, seemingly posted on every corner within a half mile zone. Inside,...
After a trio of tenors opened proceedings with “Over The Rainbow” it was evident that glamour and celebration were the intended take-aways, not the challenging themes presented by several of the Iffam’s selected films, and certainly not political discourse.
Macau is the well-behaved Special Administrative Region, just a ferry ride away from Hong Kong, the larger and more troublesome S.A.R. which these days stands as the front line of the ongoing clash between liberal democracy and China’s authoritarian version of economic development.
Outside the breathless ceremony, security guards were highly visible and widely dispersed, seemingly posted on every corner within a half mile zone. Inside,...
- 12/5/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Pushpendra Singh’s ’The Shepherdess And The Seven Songs’ won the Vkaao Wip Lab Award.
Natesh Hegde’s Pedro and Ajitpal Singh’s Swizerland were presented with the Prasad Lab Di Award and Moviebuff Appreciation Award at the close of Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), on Sunday night.
The two projects were selected from the five that participated in Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab. Prasad Lab Di and Moviebuff Appreciation Awards were also presented to one incomplete project in the Film Bazaar Recommends section – Where Is Pinki?, from Prithvi Konanur.
The awards include...
Natesh Hegde’s Pedro and Ajitpal Singh’s Swizerland were presented with the Prasad Lab Di Award and Moviebuff Appreciation Award at the close of Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), on Sunday night.
The two projects were selected from the five that participated in Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab. Prasad Lab Di and Moviebuff Appreciation Awards were also presented to one incomplete project in the Film Bazaar Recommends section – Where Is Pinki?, from Prithvi Konanur.
The awards include...
- 11/25/2019
- ScreenDaily
Ido Abram will head the organisation formerly known as Eye International.
Netherlands film promotion body Eye International is to relaunch as See Nl and has appointed Ido Abram as its new director, starting from September 25.
See Nl will carry out the same function as Eye International, of being an umbrella body for the promotion of Dutch films and film culture.
Abram replaces Marten Rabarts, who has been head of the organisation for four and a half years.
As announced earlier this year, New Zealander Rabarts is returning to his native country to become director of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Netherlands film promotion body Eye International is to relaunch as See Nl and has appointed Ido Abram as its new director, starting from September 25.
See Nl will carry out the same function as Eye International, of being an umbrella body for the promotion of Dutch films and film culture.
Abram replaces Marten Rabarts, who has been head of the organisation for four and a half years.
As announced earlier this year, New Zealander Rabarts is returning to his native country to become director of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
- 9/6/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Marten Rabarts, current head of Eye International at the Eye Film Museum Netherlands, has been appointed Film Festival Director – Kaiurungi to lead the New Zealand International Film Festival.
He starts the new position in October 2019 and will oversee the 2020 edition. The 2019 Nziff, taking place in July and August, has been programmed with significant input from Bill Gosden, who retired at the end of March after 40 years. It will be delivered by the existing Nziff programming team which includes program manager Michael McDonnell and programmer Sandra Reid.
Rabarts was born in New Zealand but has lived in Australia, the U.K., the U.S., India, and for most of the last 20 years in The Netherlands. Past jobs have included artistic director of the Binger FilmLab, and head of training and development at the Nfdc in India.
“A film festival can’t pretend to offer easy answers in our turbulent times, but...
He starts the new position in October 2019 and will oversee the 2020 edition. The 2019 Nziff, taking place in July and August, has been programmed with significant input from Bill Gosden, who retired at the end of March after 40 years. It will be delivered by the existing Nziff programming team which includes program manager Michael McDonnell and programmer Sandra Reid.
Rabarts was born in New Zealand but has lived in Australia, the U.K., the U.S., India, and for most of the last 20 years in The Netherlands. Past jobs have included artistic director of the Binger FilmLab, and head of training and development at the Nfdc in India.
“A film festival can’t pretend to offer easy answers in our turbulent times, but...
- 4/30/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Marten Rabarts.
Marten Rabarts will succeed Bill Gosden as the director of the New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff), starting with the 2020 edition.
Currently responsible for the promotion of Dutch film and film culture worldwide as the head of Eye International at the Eye Film Museum, he will take up the position in October.
Rabarts will attend this year’s festival, which runs from July 18 – August 4 in Auckland, July 26 – August 11 in Wellington, August 1 – 18 in Dunedin and August 8-25 in Christchurch.
The line-up has been programmed with significant input from Gosden, who retired at the end of March after 40 years’ distinguished service, and will be delivered by the Nziff programming team led by program manager Michael McDonnell and programmer Sandra Reid.
Nziff Trust chair Catherine Fitzgerald said: “As so many applicants noted, Bill Gosden left unique and large shoes to fill on his recent retirement. From a richly skilled and talented field of applicants,...
Marten Rabarts will succeed Bill Gosden as the director of the New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff), starting with the 2020 edition.
Currently responsible for the promotion of Dutch film and film culture worldwide as the head of Eye International at the Eye Film Museum, he will take up the position in October.
Rabarts will attend this year’s festival, which runs from July 18 – August 4 in Auckland, July 26 – August 11 in Wellington, August 1 – 18 in Dunedin and August 8-25 in Christchurch.
The line-up has been programmed with significant input from Gosden, who retired at the end of March after 40 years’ distinguished service, and will be delivered by the Nziff programming team led by program manager Michael McDonnell and programmer Sandra Reid.
Nziff Trust chair Catherine Fitzgerald said: “As so many applicants noted, Bill Gosden left unique and large shoes to fill on his recent retirement. From a richly skilled and talented field of applicants,...
- 4/30/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Rabarts moves from Eye International in the Netherlands.
Marten Rabarts has been appointed the new festival director of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Rabarts currently heads Eye International in Amsterdam where he is responsible for the promotion of Dutch film and film culture worldwide. He is also a board member of European Film Promotion.
Rabarts will attend this year’s festival throughout July and August this year; the event takes place in multiple cities including Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington. He will then start in his position from October.
A native of Coromandel on New Zealand’s North Island, Rabarts...
Marten Rabarts has been appointed the new festival director of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Rabarts currently heads Eye International in Amsterdam where he is responsible for the promotion of Dutch film and film culture worldwide. He is also a board member of European Film Promotion.
Rabarts will attend this year’s festival throughout July and August this year; the event takes place in multiple cities including Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington. He will then start in his position from October.
A native of Coromandel on New Zealand’s North Island, Rabarts...
- 4/29/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Two Dutch Latino coproductions which premiered in Sundance were produced by Raymond van der Kaaij: I Dream in Another Language/ Sueño en otro idioma and Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl, a coproduction of The Netherlands, Brazil and Paraguay. Van der Kaaij also produced the award-winning hybrid drama Bodkin Ras and coproduced the U.K. indie hit Love & Friendship.
In a way I Dream in Another Language (U.S.: Filmrise, Isa: Mundial), an intriguing film about saving an aborigine language and love, actually began at the Amsterdam based Binger Institut, now a privately funded development workshop. Back in 2010 it was publically funded by the Dutch Ministry of Culture and was headed by Marten Rabarts who is now head of international film promotion for the Eye Institut, The Netherlands fabulous new film museum, archive and educational hub built on newly reclaimed land behind the train station in Amsterdam,...
In a way I Dream in Another Language (U.S.: Filmrise, Isa: Mundial), an intriguing film about saving an aborigine language and love, actually began at the Amsterdam based Binger Institut, now a privately funded development workshop. Back in 2010 it was publically funded by the Dutch Ministry of Culture and was headed by Marten Rabarts who is now head of international film promotion for the Eye Institut, The Netherlands fabulous new film museum, archive and educational hub built on newly reclaimed land behind the train station in Amsterdam,...
- 7/31/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Five filmmakers selected for writing and editing residencies.
Pjlf Three Rivers has announced the five filmmakers selected for this year’s writing and editing residencies, which will take place over the summer in Italy.
The initiative, supported by the Pjlf Arts Fund and the Chatwin Scholarship, is also continuing its partnership with the Dubai International Film Festival (Diff). The five selected filmmakers will present their projects at Diff’s Dubai Film Market in December.
India’s Haobam Paban Kumar and Hungary’s Balazs Simonyi have been selected for the first writing residency to take place in May-June. Marten Rabarts and Franz Rodenkirchen will work with the two filmmakers on their projects, Joseph’s Story and Heartstop, respectively.
The second writing residency, to take place in August and September, will see Rabarts and Gyula Gazdag work with Florian Habicht on Under A Full Moon and Ishtiaque Zico on Cinema, City And Cats.
Three Rivers ran an...
Pjlf Three Rivers has announced the five filmmakers selected for this year’s writing and editing residencies, which will take place over the summer in Italy.
The initiative, supported by the Pjlf Arts Fund and the Chatwin Scholarship, is also continuing its partnership with the Dubai International Film Festival (Diff). The five selected filmmakers will present their projects at Diff’s Dubai Film Market in December.
India’s Haobam Paban Kumar and Hungary’s Balazs Simonyi have been selected for the first writing residency to take place in May-June. Marten Rabarts and Franz Rodenkirchen will work with the two filmmakers on their projects, Joseph’s Story and Heartstop, respectively.
The second writing residency, to take place in August and September, will see Rabarts and Gyula Gazdag work with Florian Habicht on Under A Full Moon and Ishtiaque Zico on Cinema, City And Cats.
Three Rivers ran an...
- 5/23/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
What a surprising city Rotterdam is and the Festival and Cinemart are full of surprises too.
Being in The Netherlands is like a homecoming for me. My first major job in the film industry was with 20th Century Fox International and City Fox Films in Amsterdam in 1975 which is when I first attended the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, three years after its founding by Huub Bals. It was much smaller then. Iffr’s logo is a tiger, loosely based on the M.G.M. lion as an alternative. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. It has become one of the most important events in the film world, an integral part of the winter circuit of Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals.
“Fox and HIs Friends”
Except for my...
Being in The Netherlands is like a homecoming for me. My first major job in the film industry was with 20th Century Fox International and City Fox Films in Amsterdam in 1975 which is when I first attended the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, three years after its founding by Huub Bals. It was much smaller then. Iffr’s logo is a tiger, loosely based on the M.G.M. lion as an alternative. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. It has become one of the most important events in the film world, an integral part of the winter circuit of Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals.
“Fox and HIs Friends”
Except for my...
- 3/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Rotterdam ’17: International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) One of the World’s Largest Film FestivalsThe festival screened 484 films this year, of which 105 world premières, and attracted more than 314,000 visits. Iffr welcomed 316 filmmakers and 1,910 film professionals from all over the world. A record number of 63 feature films were rated at an average of 4 (out of 5) or higher in the audience award. January 25 — February 5, 2017Iffr Tiger Logo 2017
The festival opened on 25 January with the international première of “Lemon”, in the presence of filmmaker Janicza Bravo, actors Brett Gelman and Judy Greer. On Friday, 27 January, Iffr welcomed King Willem-Alexander onto the red carpet for the world première of “Double Play” by filmmaker Ernest Dickerson. Many of the international cast and crew were also present.
On Monday 30 January Rotterdam received dignitaries from all over Europe, who together with Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Jet Bussemaker, put their signatures to the revised Council...
The festival opened on 25 January with the international première of “Lemon”, in the presence of filmmaker Janicza Bravo, actors Brett Gelman and Judy Greer. On Friday, 27 January, Iffr welcomed King Willem-Alexander onto the red carpet for the world première of “Double Play” by filmmaker Ernest Dickerson. Many of the international cast and crew were also present.
On Monday 30 January Rotterdam received dignitaries from all over Europe, who together with Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Jet Bussemaker, put their signatures to the revised Council...
- 2/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Films and projects travel from Sundance to Rotterdam and Rotterdam’s love affair with Latin America becomes apparent.
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
- 2/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Dubai Film Market is introducing a selection of Indian projects for the first time this year through a partnership with Europe’s Pjlf Three Rivers Residency.
The five projects are being scripted by hot new talents such as Kanu Behl, whose debut feature Titli premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2014, and Raj Rishi More, whose project is being produced by The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra.
The Three Rivers residency provides writer-directors with a month-long distraction-free space to work on their scripts in the Italian countryside, with the help of an expert mentor, before presenting their projects at Diff. Although focusing on Indian projects in its first year, the organisers hope to open the programme to international writer-directors, including those from the Arab world, from next year.
“We feel writers sometimes need a much more concentrated period to hone their ideas and get away from all the distractions of a day job and daily life,” said producer...
The five projects are being scripted by hot new talents such as Kanu Behl, whose debut feature Titli premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2014, and Raj Rishi More, whose project is being produced by The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra.
The Three Rivers residency provides writer-directors with a month-long distraction-free space to work on their scripts in the Italian countryside, with the help of an expert mentor, before presenting their projects at Diff. Although focusing on Indian projects in its first year, the organisers hope to open the programme to international writer-directors, including those from the Arab world, from next year.
“We feel writers sometimes need a much more concentrated period to hone their ideas and get away from all the distractions of a day job and daily life,” said producer...
- 12/9/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The film-makers will each receive an expert mentor to help develop their feature projects.
Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) is partnering with the Pjlf Three Rivers Residency, designed to support Indian film-makers in developing their scripts. The residency provides six writer-directors a year with a distraction-free space to write their scripts, the help of an expert mentor and the opportunity to present their projects at Diff.
The six filmmakers selected this year include Kanu Behl [pictured], whose debut Titli screened at Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2014, Arun Karthick, who debuted with Rotterdam title The Strange Case Of Shiva, Raj Rishi More, who served as assistant director on The Lunchbox, Miransha Naik, Sonal Jain and Pushan Kripalani. Naik recently completed post-production on Juze, which has been picked up by Films Boutique and secured a French release through Sophie Dulac Distribution.
This year’s advisers include Molly Stensgaard, Franz Rodenkirchen, Marten Rabarts, Gyula Gazdag and Olivia Stewart, who has developed...
Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) is partnering with the Pjlf Three Rivers Residency, designed to support Indian film-makers in developing their scripts. The residency provides six writer-directors a year with a distraction-free space to write their scripts, the help of an expert mentor and the opportunity to present their projects at Diff.
The six filmmakers selected this year include Kanu Behl [pictured], whose debut Titli screened at Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2014, Arun Karthick, who debuted with Rotterdam title The Strange Case Of Shiva, Raj Rishi More, who served as assistant director on The Lunchbox, Miransha Naik, Sonal Jain and Pushan Kripalani. Naik recently completed post-production on Juze, which has been picked up by Films Boutique and secured a French release through Sophie Dulac Distribution.
This year’s advisers include Molly Stensgaard, Franz Rodenkirchen, Marten Rabarts, Gyula Gazdag and Olivia Stewart, who has developed...
- 9/11/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Audience Development & Innovation Lab, Think Tank on the future of co-production markets take place in Sarajevo
Sarajevo Film Festival’s Industry Days this year introduced a workshop called Audience Development & Innovation Lab, in the frame of the Avant Premieres programme, intended to to strengthen the network of regional cinemas and to provide a platform where they can share strengths, weaknesses and examples of best practice.
“Because of dominance of Hollywood, for all the independent and regional films, a special promotion is necessary,” Tina Hajon, the Avant Premieres co-ordinator, told Screendaily.
“The classic way of distribution and promotion is obsolete, and for every release a tailor-made promotion should be devised. This workshop will provide our exhibitors with real tools for keeping their present audiences and getting new ones, and for promoting their activities and independent films in the best way possible,” Hajon concluded.
Organised in co-operation with Europa Cinemas, the workshop was led by Duncan Carson from London...
Sarajevo Film Festival’s Industry Days this year introduced a workshop called Audience Development & Innovation Lab, in the frame of the Avant Premieres programme, intended to to strengthen the network of regional cinemas and to provide a platform where they can share strengths, weaknesses and examples of best practice.
“Because of dominance of Hollywood, for all the independent and regional films, a special promotion is necessary,” Tina Hajon, the Avant Premieres co-ordinator, told Screendaily.
“The classic way of distribution and promotion is obsolete, and for every release a tailor-made promotion should be devised. This workshop will provide our exhibitors with real tools for keeping their present audiences and getting new ones, and for promoting their activities and independent films in the best way possible,” Hajon concluded.
Organised in co-operation with Europa Cinemas, the workshop was led by Duncan Carson from London...
- 8/20/2016
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Panel discussed the future of co-production in the proposed Digital Single Market.
The second panel of the European Film Forum – “Public funding for co-productions: Cooperating better across borders in the borderless digital world” – took place at the Sarajevo Film Festival on August 21.
The session was a response to the EU initiative to create a Digital Single Market in the 28 member territories that would allow consumers to access content across borders - a move the European entertainment industry says would destroy hard-won co-production, distribution and exhibition models, and facilitate only significant players such as Netflix, Apple and Amazon in distributing content across the continent.
Sff’s Head of Industry, Jovan Marjanović, moderated the lively discussion between Marten Rabarts of the Eye Institute Netherlands; Hrvoje Hribar, head of the Croatian Audiovisual Institute (Havc); Robert Balinski of the Polish Film Institute; Dorien Van De Pas of the Netherlands Film Fund; Tamara Tahishvili of the Georgian National Film Center; and independent...
The second panel of the European Film Forum – “Public funding for co-productions: Cooperating better across borders in the borderless digital world” – took place at the Sarajevo Film Festival on August 21.
The session was a response to the EU initiative to create a Digital Single Market in the 28 member territories that would allow consumers to access content across borders - a move the European entertainment industry says would destroy hard-won co-production, distribution and exhibition models, and facilitate only significant players such as Netflix, Apple and Amazon in distributing content across the continent.
Sff’s Head of Industry, Jovan Marjanović, moderated the lively discussion between Marten Rabarts of the Eye Institute Netherlands; Hrvoje Hribar, head of the Croatian Audiovisual Institute (Havc); Robert Balinski of the Polish Film Institute; Dorien Van De Pas of the Netherlands Film Fund; Tamara Tahishvili of the Georgian National Film Center; and independent...
- 8/22/2015
- ScreenDaily
Dutch film promotion outfit appoints successor to veteran Claudia Landsberger.
Marten Rabarts is to replace Claudia Landsberger as head of Eye International (formerly Holland Film) from March 1.
Screen revealed in November that Landsberger was to step after 20 years at the Dutch film promotion outfit to establish herself as an international film consultant for her new company, BaseWorx For Film.
New Zealand-born Rabarts, currently head of development and training at the National Film Development Corporation in India, was previously artistic director of Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam for 12 years.
Rabarts said: “Representing and promoting Dutch cinema, film-makers and industry abroad is a task I can’t wait to get my teeth into.
“The ever increasing flow of diverse and high quality work, evidenced already in 2015 with a Foreign Oscar shortlist contender (Accused) as well as a major new work by Peter Greenaway (Eisenstein in Guanajuato) in Berlin Film Festival competition indicates the robust good health of our industry.
“I look...
Marten Rabarts is to replace Claudia Landsberger as head of Eye International (formerly Holland Film) from March 1.
Screen revealed in November that Landsberger was to step after 20 years at the Dutch film promotion outfit to establish herself as an international film consultant for her new company, BaseWorx For Film.
New Zealand-born Rabarts, currently head of development and training at the National Film Development Corporation in India, was previously artistic director of Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam for 12 years.
Rabarts said: “Representing and promoting Dutch cinema, film-makers and industry abroad is a task I can’t wait to get my teeth into.
“The ever increasing flow of diverse and high quality work, evidenced already in 2015 with a Foreign Oscar shortlist contender (Accused) as well as a major new work by Peter Greenaway (Eisenstein in Guanajuato) in Berlin Film Festival competition indicates the robust good health of our industry.
“I look...
- 1/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has announced the nine scripts selected for the second edition of the National Script Lab to be held from October 2014 – March 2015.
Actor Konkona Sensharma and editor Ranjeet Bahadur are among the nine writers whose scripts have been selected.
The first screenwriting workshop will be held from October 12 – 17, 2014 at the Courtyard Marriott, Chakan, Pune, followed by two more workshops and one-to-one consultation sessions over the next six months.
Marten Rabarts (Senior Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc), Olivia Stewart (Producer of The House of Mirth, Brassed Off, and script consultant on The Lunchbox), and Rajat Kapoor, writer-director of Ankhon Dekhi will mentor these scriptwriters.
Also as part of the National Script Lab program, the screenwriters will also attend Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 (Nov 20–24) to network and introduce their upcoming projects to both the Indian and international film industry delegates attending the market.
This year the Script Lab...
Actor Konkona Sensharma and editor Ranjeet Bahadur are among the nine writers whose scripts have been selected.
The first screenwriting workshop will be held from October 12 – 17, 2014 at the Courtyard Marriott, Chakan, Pune, followed by two more workshops and one-to-one consultation sessions over the next six months.
Marten Rabarts (Senior Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc), Olivia Stewart (Producer of The House of Mirth, Brassed Off, and script consultant on The Lunchbox), and Rajat Kapoor, writer-director of Ankhon Dekhi will mentor these scriptwriters.
Also as part of the National Script Lab program, the screenwriters will also attend Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 (Nov 20–24) to network and introduce their upcoming projects to both the Indian and international film industry delegates attending the market.
This year the Script Lab...
- 10/3/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The first of Sarajevo’s Industry Days featured a discussion on the challenges of international co-production.
As the Sarajevo City of Film Fund expands this year from short micro-budget films to international features, the first of the festival’s Industry Days saw the conference “International co-production – spreading the European co-production model overseas”.
The panel comprised Sarajevo’s head of industry Jovan Marjanovic; coordinator of the Mexican Film Commission at Imcine, Mariana Cerrilla Noriega; Isabel Davis, head of international film fund at the BFI; Oscar-winning producer Cedomir Kolar of Paris-based Asap Films; and Sanja Ravlic, head of coproductions at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. The talk was moderated by Marten Rabarts of the National Film Development Corporation of India.
One major point discussed was that small territories find it tough to sign bilateral treaties that encourage co-production.
“When we approached Germany with an offer to sign a bilateral treaty, we were told they do not have time for that...
As the Sarajevo City of Film Fund expands this year from short micro-budget films to international features, the first of the festival’s Industry Days saw the conference “International co-production – spreading the European co-production model overseas”.
The panel comprised Sarajevo’s head of industry Jovan Marjanovic; coordinator of the Mexican Film Commission at Imcine, Mariana Cerrilla Noriega; Isabel Davis, head of international film fund at the BFI; Oscar-winning producer Cedomir Kolar of Paris-based Asap Films; and Sanja Ravlic, head of coproductions at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. The talk was moderated by Marten Rabarts of the National Film Development Corporation of India.
One major point discussed was that small territories find it tough to sign bilateral treaties that encourage co-production.
“When we approached Germany with an offer to sign a bilateral treaty, we were told they do not have time for that...
- 8/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
Film Bazaar, the South Asian film market organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), has selected the six finalists of Screenwriters’ Lab 2014.
Now in its eighth edition, the first stage of the Lab will be held at the Sarajevo Film Festival (August 15-23), with the second stage held prior and during Film Bazaar (November 20-24). Previous Screenwriters’ Lab partners have included the Venice, Toronto and Locarno film festivals.
Film Bazaar is held alongside the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in the south Indian state of Goa.
The selected scripts include The Boyfriend, from Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia; Aamir Bashir’s Winter; Hitesh Bhatia’s Char Log Kya Kahenge; Vandana Kohli’s Flow; All About Her, from Ruchi Joshi; and The Sunset Club from Karan Tejpal.
Ahluwalia previously directed Miss Lovely, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2013. The Boyfriend recently received the Hubert Bals Fund for script and project development. Miss Lovely was selected...
Now in its eighth edition, the first stage of the Lab will be held at the Sarajevo Film Festival (August 15-23), with the second stage held prior and during Film Bazaar (November 20-24). Previous Screenwriters’ Lab partners have included the Venice, Toronto and Locarno film festivals.
Film Bazaar is held alongside the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in the south Indian state of Goa.
The selected scripts include The Boyfriend, from Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia; Aamir Bashir’s Winter; Hitesh Bhatia’s Char Log Kya Kahenge; Vandana Kohli’s Flow; All About Her, from Ruchi Joshi; and The Sunset Club from Karan Tejpal.
Ahluwalia previously directed Miss Lovely, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2013. The Boyfriend recently received the Hubert Bals Fund for script and project development. Miss Lovely was selected...
- 7/8/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Nfdc Film Bazaar announced today the six finalists of the Screenwriters’ Lab 2014.
In its eighth edition, the first stage of the Lab will be held at the Sarajevo Film Festival (15 – 23 August 2014) and the second stage during Film Bazaar (20- 24 November 2014) in Goa.
The six scripts / screenwriters selected are:
The Boyfriend – Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia Winter- Aamir Bashir Char Log Kya Kahenge – Hitesh Bhatia Flow – Vandana Kohli All about Her – Ruchi Joshi The Sunset Club – Karan Tejpal
Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia’s The Boyfriend will be the second feature from the team behind Miss Lovely, directed by Ashim Ahluwalia, which was screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Ashim recently received the Hubert Bals Fund for script and project development for the same project.
Aamir Bashir’s Winter is his second feature film after Harud(Autumn), which premiered at Toronto Film Festival in 2010.
Char Log Kya Kahenge is the first feature script by Hitesh Bhatia,...
In its eighth edition, the first stage of the Lab will be held at the Sarajevo Film Festival (15 – 23 August 2014) and the second stage during Film Bazaar (20- 24 November 2014) in Goa.
The six scripts / screenwriters selected are:
The Boyfriend – Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia Winter- Aamir Bashir Char Log Kya Kahenge – Hitesh Bhatia Flow – Vandana Kohli All about Her – Ruchi Joshi The Sunset Club – Karan Tejpal
Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia’s The Boyfriend will be the second feature from the team behind Miss Lovely, directed by Ashim Ahluwalia, which was screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Ashim recently received the Hubert Bals Fund for script and project development for the same project.
Aamir Bashir’s Winter is his second feature film after Harud(Autumn), which premiered at Toronto Film Festival in 2010.
Char Log Kya Kahenge is the first feature script by Hitesh Bhatia,...
- 7/7/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Marten Rabarts
The name may suggest so but the recently announced Nfdc Romance Screenwriters’ Lab isn’t only about romance. Although it is being conducted in association with Harlequin, the publisher of the popular romance series Mills & Boon, the lab is open to all shades of love, not just the gooey one.
“It’s called the Romance Lab but it’s about love stories which are a very broad category. It could be a classic romantic comedy, a coming-of-age story or a heartbreaking love story. There’s no specific genre, it could be anything from comedy to tragedy,” explains Marten Rabarts, the brain behind Nfdc Labs.
The structure of the Romance Screenwriters’ Lab will be similar to other screenwriting labs conducted by the Nfdc. While they will organize a three-part workshop with the selected participants on scriptwriting, mentored by writers/directors; Harlequin will conduct separate book-writing workshops with the participants.
The name may suggest so but the recently announced Nfdc Romance Screenwriters’ Lab isn’t only about romance. Although it is being conducted in association with Harlequin, the publisher of the popular romance series Mills & Boon, the lab is open to all shades of love, not just the gooey one.
“It’s called the Romance Lab but it’s about love stories which are a very broad category. It could be a classic romantic comedy, a coming-of-age story or a heartbreaking love story. There’s no specific genre, it could be anything from comedy to tragedy,” explains Marten Rabarts, the brain behind Nfdc Labs.
The structure of the Romance Screenwriters’ Lab will be similar to other screenwriting labs conducted by the Nfdc. While they will organize a three-part workshop with the selected participants on scriptwriting, mentored by writers/directors; Harlequin will conduct separate book-writing workshops with the participants.
- 5/15/2014
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
DearCinema.com is organizing an interactive session titled “From Script to Screen” with Ritesh Batra in Mumbai on May 10, 2014. The writer-director will talk about the process of screenwriting with regard to his successful feature The Lunchbox.
Ritesh Batra has written and directed The Lunchbox that won him several awards including Asian Film award and Asia Pacific Screen award for Best Screenplay. Running for the 10th week, it has now become the highest grossing foreign film at the Us box-office. It has sold to over 70 territories worldwide.
Batra was named the Sundance Time Warner Storytelling Fellow at the 2009 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. His short film Café Regular, Cairo (2011) has screened at over 40 international film festivals and won 12 awards.
Batra has also conducted Screenwriting workshop for the Doha Film Institute.
This is the third in the series of DearCinema interactive sessions planned for independent filmmakers round the year. The first...
Ritesh Batra has written and directed The Lunchbox that won him several awards including Asian Film award and Asia Pacific Screen award for Best Screenplay. Running for the 10th week, it has now become the highest grossing foreign film at the Us box-office. It has sold to over 70 territories worldwide.
Batra was named the Sundance Time Warner Storytelling Fellow at the 2009 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. His short film Café Regular, Cairo (2011) has screened at over 40 international film festivals and won 12 awards.
Batra has also conducted Screenwriting workshop for the Doha Film Institute.
This is the third in the series of DearCinema interactive sessions planned for independent filmmakers round the year. The first...
- 4/30/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
DearCinema.com in association with Catapoolt is organizing an interactive session “From the Producer’s Perspective” with leading independent producer Guneet Monga in Mumbai on April 12, 2014.
This is the second in a series of DearCinema interactive sessions planned for independent filmmakers throughout the year. The first session on “How to pitch your script” was held successfully with international script adviser Marten Rabarts in March.
Guneet Monga, of Sikhya Entertainment and Anurag Kashyap Films, has produced some of the most successful Indian films of recent times including The Lunchbox, Peddlers, Monsoon Shootout and Gangs of Wasseypur. In this interactive session, Monga will share her insights on what producers look for in projects and how to make them viable for international markets, besides her expertise in producing and distributing indie films in India.
The session will take place in Andheri (West), Mumbai on Saturday, April 12 from 10 am-12 pm. There is an entry...
This is the second in a series of DearCinema interactive sessions planned for independent filmmakers throughout the year. The first session on “How to pitch your script” was held successfully with international script adviser Marten Rabarts in March.
Guneet Monga, of Sikhya Entertainment and Anurag Kashyap Films, has produced some of the most successful Indian films of recent times including The Lunchbox, Peddlers, Monsoon Shootout and Gangs of Wasseypur. In this interactive session, Monga will share her insights on what producers look for in projects and how to make them viable for international markets, besides her expertise in producing and distributing indie films in India.
The session will take place in Andheri (West), Mumbai on Saturday, April 12 from 10 am-12 pm. There is an entry...
- 4/3/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Script consultant Marten Rabarts at DearCinema Script-Pitching Session in Mumbai, Photograph by: Shaheen Muhammed
DearCinema organized an interactive session with international script consultant Marten Rabarts on “How to pitch your script at international platforms” on March 8 in Mumbai.
For those who couldn’t attend the session, here are 10 takeaways from it:
1.
For European co-producers, co-producing with India is not about the money. You have more money in India than we have in Europe, from private sources. The kind of money we have available in Europe for Indian filmmakers is cultural subsidy or soft money. European producers co-produce with India because they want to develop their own infrastructure or build relationships with India.
2.
What you get by working with a really experienced and culturally sensitive co-producer is knowledge of that market outside of your own country. A co-producer can work with you creatively to fine-tune the project that makes it viable for the international market.
DearCinema organized an interactive session with international script consultant Marten Rabarts on “How to pitch your script at international platforms” on March 8 in Mumbai.
For those who couldn’t attend the session, here are 10 takeaways from it:
1.
For European co-producers, co-producing with India is not about the money. You have more money in India than we have in Europe, from private sources. The kind of money we have available in Europe for Indian filmmakers is cultural subsidy or soft money. European producers co-produce with India because they want to develop their own infrastructure or build relationships with India.
2.
What you get by working with a really experienced and culturally sensitive co-producer is knowledge of that market outside of your own country. A co-producer can work with you creatively to fine-tune the project that makes it viable for the international market.
- 3/15/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
DearCinema.com is organizing an interactive session on “How to Pitch your Script at international platforms” in Mumbai on March 8.
The session will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, former artistic director of Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab who now heads Training and Development at the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc). Marten also works as a mentor with Berlin Talent ScriptStation and Torino Filmlab.
The session will be helpful in understanding how filmmakers and producers should pitch their scripts to potential investors, sales agents and distributors at co-production markets, forums and international film festivals.
It is being organized for DearCinema readers who contributed to the website’s crowdfunding campaign last year. DearCinema.com ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to fund the new design of the website. 73 readers from 24 cities had contributed to the campaign.
However, if you are interested to attend this session, please fill out the form below by March 6, Thursday, and...
The session will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, former artistic director of Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab who now heads Training and Development at the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc). Marten also works as a mentor with Berlin Talent ScriptStation and Torino Filmlab.
The session will be helpful in understanding how filmmakers and producers should pitch their scripts to potential investors, sales agents and distributors at co-production markets, forums and international film festivals.
It is being organized for DearCinema readers who contributed to the website’s crowdfunding campaign last year. DearCinema.com ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to fund the new design of the website. 73 readers from 24 cities had contributed to the campaign.
However, if you are interested to attend this session, please fill out the form below by March 6, Thursday, and...
- 3/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has announced the names of mentors for the first edition of Producers’ Lab to be organized at Film Bazaar 2013 from November 21-23.
The Producers’ Lab will consist of interactive workshops, case studies, and one-on-one meetings, spread over three days. There will be sessions on: Role of a Producer, Development Process of a Film, Budgeting, Navigating International Co-productions, Film Financing and Importance of Film Festivals and Markets.
The mentors are:
Roshanak Behesht Nedjad – Producer, Football Undercover, Liebeslied
Cedomir Kolar – Producer, No Man’s Land; Co-Producer, The Lunchbox
Laurent Danielou – MD, Rezo Films
Teresa Hoefert De Turegano – Funding Consultant, Medienboard
Marten Rabarts – Senior Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc
Pawan Kumar – Director, Lucia, Lifeu Ishtene
Applications are still open for Producers’ Lab. Click here to apply.
The Producers’ Lab will consist of interactive workshops, case studies, and one-on-one meetings, spread over three days. There will be sessions on: Role of a Producer, Development Process of a Film, Budgeting, Navigating International Co-productions, Film Financing and Importance of Film Festivals and Markets.
The mentors are:
Roshanak Behesht Nedjad – Producer, Football Undercover, Liebeslied
Cedomir Kolar – Producer, No Man’s Land; Co-Producer, The Lunchbox
Laurent Danielou – MD, Rezo Films
Teresa Hoefert De Turegano – Funding Consultant, Medienboard
Marten Rabarts – Senior Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc
Pawan Kumar – Director, Lucia, Lifeu Ishtene
Applications are still open for Producers’ Lab. Click here to apply.
- 10/8/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has announced nine scripts selected for the National Script Lab to be spread over September 2013 – Jan 2014.
Marten Rabarts- Senior Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc; Olivia Stewart- Script Advisor, Binger Filmlab and Ritesh Batra, writer-director of The Lunchbox will mentor these scriptwriters during extensive four-month residential workshops.
The selected scripts are a mix of regular stories and adaptations.
As part of the four-month program, the participants will get to attend Nfdc’s Film Bazaar 2013 (Nov 20–24) and a chance to network and interact with both the Indian and international film fraternity attending the market.
The first session of the workshop will be held from 30 Sept – 6 Oct, 2013 while the second session will be held from 4 – 10 Nov, 2013. The third and fourth sessions will be held from 20 – 24 Nov, 2013 and 4 – 12 Jan, 2014 respectively. Locations are to be announced.
Selected Scripts:
1. Varun Tondon – Anjaan Galli Gumnaan Nagar
2. Sona Urvashi – The...
Marten Rabarts- Senior Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc; Olivia Stewart- Script Advisor, Binger Filmlab and Ritesh Batra, writer-director of The Lunchbox will mentor these scriptwriters during extensive four-month residential workshops.
The selected scripts are a mix of regular stories and adaptations.
As part of the four-month program, the participants will get to attend Nfdc’s Film Bazaar 2013 (Nov 20–24) and a chance to network and interact with both the Indian and international film fraternity attending the market.
The first session of the workshop will be held from 30 Sept – 6 Oct, 2013 while the second session will be held from 4 – 10 Nov, 2013. The third and fourth sessions will be held from 20 – 24 Nov, 2013 and 4 – 12 Jan, 2014 respectively. Locations are to be announced.
Selected Scripts:
1. Varun Tondon – Anjaan Galli Gumnaan Nagar
2. Sona Urvashi – The...
- 9/25/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Nfdc has extended the deadline for submissions for Script Lab 2013. The new deadline is August 15, 2013.
The Script Lab will focus on Literary Adaptations and scripts will be accepted from across the country.
Eight scripts will be selected, a mix of regular stories and adaptations, from the entries received. Marten Rabarts- Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc and Olivia Stewart- Script Advisor, Binger Filmlab will mentor these scriptwriters, with extensive four-month residential workshops spread over September 2013 – Jan 2014.
Each workshop will be of seven days. As part of the four-month program, the participants will get to attend Nfdc’s Film Bazaar 2013 (20th Nov –Nov 24th) and a chance to network and interact with both the Indian and international film fraternity attending the market.
Application Fee for the lab is Inr 1000/
For more details on Nfdc Labs, click here...
The Script Lab will focus on Literary Adaptations and scripts will be accepted from across the country.
Eight scripts will be selected, a mix of regular stories and adaptations, from the entries received. Marten Rabarts- Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc and Olivia Stewart- Script Advisor, Binger Filmlab will mentor these scriptwriters, with extensive four-month residential workshops spread over September 2013 – Jan 2014.
Each workshop will be of seven days. As part of the four-month program, the participants will get to attend Nfdc’s Film Bazaar 2013 (20th Nov –Nov 24th) and a chance to network and interact with both the Indian and international film fraternity attending the market.
Application Fee for the lab is Inr 1000/
For more details on Nfdc Labs, click here...
- 7/27/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A Script Lab with a special focus on Literary Adaptations is being organized by Nfdc Labs, the training and development arm of Nfdc (National Film Development Corporation).
Scripts will be accepted from across the country, the deadline for submissions being 31st July.
Eight scripts will be selected, a mix of regular stories and adaptations, from the entries received. Marten Rabarts- Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc and Olivia Stewart- Script Advisor, Binger Filmlab will mentor these scriptwriters, with extensive four-month residential workshops spread over September 2013 – Jan 2014.
Each workshop will be of seven days. As part of the four-month program, the participants will get to attend Nfdc’s Film Bazaar 2013 (20th Nov –Nov 24th) and a chance to network and interact with both the Indian and international film fraternity attending the market.
Application Fee for the lab is Inr 1000/
For more details on Nfdc Labs, click here...
Scripts will be accepted from across the country, the deadline for submissions being 31st July.
Eight scripts will be selected, a mix of regular stories and adaptations, from the entries received. Marten Rabarts- Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc and Olivia Stewart- Script Advisor, Binger Filmlab will mentor these scriptwriters, with extensive four-month residential workshops spread over September 2013 – Jan 2014.
Each workshop will be of seven days. As part of the four-month program, the participants will get to attend Nfdc’s Film Bazaar 2013 (20th Nov –Nov 24th) and a chance to network and interact with both the Indian and international film fraternity attending the market.
Application Fee for the lab is Inr 1000/
For more details on Nfdc Labs, click here...
- 7/3/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In 2012, we published 777 new stories, which were read by 712,406 unique visitors. We received 3.8 million page views, the highest in our six year long journey.
Here is what was most read and shared on DearCinema.com in 2012:
Top-10 posts Doubting the woman: Paoli Dam in Chhatrak Amour Beasts of the southern wild scripts available online Documentary Review:Love in India by Q (Kaushik Mukherjee) Never thought a film with 25 songs could go to Cannes: Anurag Kashyap (Interview: Anurag Kashyap, Gangs of Wasseypur) Demystifying Cannes Film Festival: India at Cannes 2012 Shanghai Review: Lost in Adaptation David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis: A Vision of the ‘Hyperreal’ Interview: It must be boring to be a star: Nawazuddin Siddiqui Who selected Barfi for Oscars Review: Dark Shadows by Tim Burton Top-10 Interviews Never thought a film with 25 songs could go to Cannes: Anurag Kashyap (Interview: Anurag Kashyap, Gangs of Wasseypur) Interview: It must be boring...
Here is what was most read and shared on DearCinema.com in 2012:
Top-10 posts Doubting the woman: Paoli Dam in Chhatrak Amour Beasts of the southern wild scripts available online Documentary Review:Love in India by Q (Kaushik Mukherjee) Never thought a film with 25 songs could go to Cannes: Anurag Kashyap (Interview: Anurag Kashyap, Gangs of Wasseypur) Demystifying Cannes Film Festival: India at Cannes 2012 Shanghai Review: Lost in Adaptation David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis: A Vision of the ‘Hyperreal’ Interview: It must be boring to be a star: Nawazuddin Siddiqui Who selected Barfi for Oscars Review: Dark Shadows by Tim Burton Top-10 Interviews Never thought a film with 25 songs could go to Cannes: Anurag Kashyap (Interview: Anurag Kashyap, Gangs of Wasseypur) Interview: It must be boring...
- 1/4/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Nfdc launches its maha-ambitious Nfdc Labs initiative at Film Bazaar, Goa : Film Festivals & Markets
This probably is the most ambitious training and development initiative in the history of cinema ever. The initiative will be led by Marten Rabarts the former Artistic Director of Binger Filmlab who has joined Nfdc as its head of training and development. It’s a multi-pronged programme, carefully designed to reach the far corners of Indian sub-continent and explore, discover, train, nurture, and promote truly talented screenplay writers and filmmakers and catapult them to the world stage and ensure that they get their well-deserved place under the sun. Read More...
- 11/22/2012
- Bollywood Trade
The National Film Development Corporation (Ndfc) has started a new initiative titled Ndfc Labs to cater to the needs of creative producers and development professionals. The first programme to be organized under the initiative is a two part Lab for Creative Producers in Mumbai.
Marten Rabarts, the ex artistic director of Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab heads the Nfdc Labs. Marten’s induction into Nfdc was announced during Cannes Film Festival this year. Marten had organized a “Think Tank” session with filmmakers in July this year. In an interview to DearCinema.com, Marten had shared the outcome of the Think tank session, “One of the things that the filmmaking community during the Think Tank session identified to be lacking is the role of a creative producer in a film: someone who is there alongside the director and writer. So I am trying to find ways to empower the producers who are there...
Marten Rabarts, the ex artistic director of Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab heads the Nfdc Labs. Marten’s induction into Nfdc was announced during Cannes Film Festival this year. Marten had organized a “Think Tank” session with filmmakers in July this year. In an interview to DearCinema.com, Marten had shared the outcome of the Think tank session, “One of the things that the filmmaking community during the Think Tank session identified to be lacking is the role of a creative producer in a film: someone who is there alongside the director and writer. So I am trying to find ways to empower the producers who are there...
- 9/18/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
DearCinema profiles the screenwriters who are participating in the Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab from September 1-3 at the ongoing Venice Film Festival.
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Anupam Barvé answers five questions about his project “The Shadow Lines”:
Tell us more about your project.
‘The Shadow Lines’, a critically acclaimed novel by award-winning writer Amitav Ghosh is one of the most respected works in Indian-English literary fiction. To adapt the novel for the screen has been my dream for a long time. Last year, I acquired a formal option on the novel. This option entails that I will have the claim for cinematic adaptation of the book over the next few months.
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Anupam Barvé answers five questions about his project “The Shadow Lines”:
Tell us more about your project.
‘The Shadow Lines’, a critically acclaimed novel by award-winning writer Amitav Ghosh is one of the most respected works in Indian-English literary fiction. To adapt the novel for the screen has been my dream for a long time. Last year, I acquired a formal option on the novel. This option entails that I will have the claim for cinematic adaptation of the book over the next few months.
- 9/5/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
DearCinema profiles the screenwriters who are participating in the Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab from September 1-3 at the ongoing Venice Film Festival.
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Siddharth Sinha answers five questions about his project “Behind the Camera”:
Tell us more about your project.
While making a film, three teenage friends come across the questions of love, jealousy and loneliness. The whole confusion takes a toll on them and the film takes a back seat but later the film only brings them back though not necessarily with all questions answered. “Behind the Camera” intends to portray the youth of urban India, their personal crisis and inter personal relationships with a newly...
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Siddharth Sinha answers five questions about his project “Behind the Camera”:
Tell us more about your project.
While making a film, three teenage friends come across the questions of love, jealousy and loneliness. The whole confusion takes a toll on them and the film takes a back seat but later the film only brings them back though not necessarily with all questions answered. “Behind the Camera” intends to portray the youth of urban India, their personal crisis and inter personal relationships with a newly...
- 9/4/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Ruchika Oberoi
DearCinema profiles the screenwriters who are participating in the Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab from September 1-3 at the ongoing Venice Film Festival.
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Ruchika Oberoi answers five questions about her project “Island City”:
Tell us more about your project.
‘Island City’ is a collection of three tenuously connected stories dealing with themes of industrialization, urbanization and alienation in Mumbai. The first is a black-comic tale of an office drone who wins the office ‘Fun Committee’ award which forces him to go on an absurd fun spree. The second is the story of how the domineering head of a family suddenly goes into a coma and...
DearCinema profiles the screenwriters who are participating in the Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab from September 1-3 at the ongoing Venice Film Festival.
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Ruchika Oberoi answers five questions about her project “Island City”:
Tell us more about your project.
‘Island City’ is a collection of three tenuously connected stories dealing with themes of industrialization, urbanization and alienation in Mumbai. The first is a black-comic tale of an office drone who wins the office ‘Fun Committee’ award which forces him to go on an absurd fun spree. The second is the story of how the domineering head of a family suddenly goes into a coma and...
- 9/3/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Kanu Behl
DearCinema profiles the screenwriters who are participating in the Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab from September 1-3 at the ongoing Venice Film Festival.
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Kanu Behl answers five questions about his project “Titli”:
Tell us more about your project.
‘Titli’ tells the story of a boy itching to run away from home to escape an oppressive brother, forcing him into a life of crime. And how he himself starts turning into the person he hates most as he obsesses over fulfilling his dreams.
At what stage of development is it?
The film is in the final stage of script development.
Is a director/producer attached with the project?...
DearCinema profiles the screenwriters who are participating in the Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab from September 1-3 at the ongoing Venice Film Festival.
Screenwriters’ Lab, a 2-part workshop conducted by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking community. The participants will be mentored by Marten Rabarts, Olivia Stewart, Urmi Juvekar and Bianca Taal.
Kanu Behl answers five questions about his project “Titli”:
Tell us more about your project.
‘Titli’ tells the story of a boy itching to run away from home to escape an oppressive brother, forcing him into a life of crime. And how he himself starts turning into the person he hates most as he obsesses over fulfilling his dreams.
At what stage of development is it?
The film is in the final stage of script development.
Is a director/producer attached with the project?...
- 9/2/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
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