It’s November – a time for Thanksgiving, feasts, and the presence of relatives. If you have some time off (or are trying to grab some much-needed alone time), here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
Each week we will have more updates and information, so be sure to keep coming back. You can also check our calendar page, which has releases for the rest of the year. Eat well and keep watching!
Week of November 4 Wide
Trolls
Director: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gwen Stefani, Icona Pop, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ron Funches, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel
Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch set off...
Each week we will have more updates and information, so be sure to keep coming back. You can also check our calendar page, which has releases for the rest of the year. Eat well and keep watching!
Week of November 4 Wide
Trolls
Director: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gwen Stefani, Icona Pop, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ron Funches, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel
Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch set off...
- 11/4/2016
- by Zipporah Smith
- Indiewire
Nfdc Film Bazaar is introducing a new segment for films in need of gap financing this year. Eighteen projects will be pitched to potential investors to find finishing funds at the first Investor Pitch in Goa this year.
“We learnt that independent films invariably run out of budget at post-production stage. So we thought of organizing a pitching session of such films from Nfdc Recommends section and presenting them to investors, producers and distributors. Here prospective investors can get to watch full films,” says Deepti DCunha, the curator of Investor Pitch.
In order to try out the idea, Nfdc invited selected filmmakers from the Viewing Room section last year for a pitching forum. Filmmakers were asked to showcase the trailers and talk about their films for about five minutes.
One of the filmmakers who pitched his film at the forum last year was Lajwanti director Pushpendra Singh. He met Delhi-based...
“We learnt that independent films invariably run out of budget at post-production stage. So we thought of organizing a pitching session of such films from Nfdc Recommends section and presenting them to investors, producers and distributors. Here prospective investors can get to watch full films,” says Deepti DCunha, the curator of Investor Pitch.
In order to try out the idea, Nfdc invited selected filmmakers from the Viewing Room section last year for a pitching forum. Filmmakers were asked to showcase the trailers and talk about their films for about five minutes.
One of the filmmakers who pitched his film at the forum last year was Lajwanti director Pushpendra Singh. He met Delhi-based...
- 11/19/2014
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Nfdc has announced the selection for Film Bazaar recommends (Fbr) section of Film Bazaar 2014. Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Labour of Love, Bikas Mishra’s Chauranga, Kamal Swaroop’s Dance of Democracy, Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor, Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla’s Proposition for a Revolution feature among the list of 25 selected films.
Film Bazaar Recommends is a curated section of the market. The selected films are seeking finishing funds, world sales, distribution partners and film festivals.
Here is the complete list of Film Bazaar Recommends section:
12 Acres
Director – Rajesh Thind
Asha Jaoar Majhe
(Labour of Love)
Director – Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Bokul
Director – Reema Borah
Chauranga
(Four Colours)
Director – Bikas Ranjan Mishra
Crd
Director – Kranti Kanade
Dance of Democracy
Director – Kamal Swaroop
For the Love of a Man
Director – Rinku Kalsy
Foreign Puzzle
Director – Chithra Jeyaram
Gaalibeeja
(The Floating Seed)
Director – Babu Eshwar Prasad
Haraamkhor
(The Wretched)
Director – Shlok Sharma
Island...
Film Bazaar Recommends is a curated section of the market. The selected films are seeking finishing funds, world sales, distribution partners and film festivals.
Here is the complete list of Film Bazaar Recommends section:
12 Acres
Director – Rajesh Thind
Asha Jaoar Majhe
(Labour of Love)
Director – Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Bokul
Director – Reema Borah
Chauranga
(Four Colours)
Director – Bikas Ranjan Mishra
Crd
Director – Kranti Kanade
Dance of Democracy
Director – Kamal Swaroop
For the Love of a Man
Director – Rinku Kalsy
Foreign Puzzle
Director – Chithra Jeyaram
Gaalibeeja
(The Floating Seed)
Director – Babu Eshwar Prasad
Haraamkhor
(The Wretched)
Director – Shlok Sharma
Island...
- 11/11/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A package of acclaimed diploma films made by the students of Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii), some of whom later became renowned filmmakers, will be showcased at the 2nd Guwahati International Short Film Festival (Gisff).
This Ftii Golden-Jubilee package, earlier screened at the Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff, 2012), comprises diploma films made by filmmakers like Kumar Shahani, Girish Kasaravalli, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Sriram Raghavan and Rajan Khosa.
The 2nd Guwahati International Short Film Festival (Gisff) will take place from May 4-6, 2012 at District Library, Guwahati.
The films from Ftii to be screened at the festival have been listed below:
37 Down Manmad Passenger (10 min, 1967, Kumar Shahani) Deccan Queen (1966, K.S. Raju) Awashesh (1975, Girish Kasarvalli) Murder at Monkety Hill (1978, Vidhu Vinod Chopra) Bodhvriksha (1985, Rajan Khosa) The Eight Column Affair (1987, Sriram Raghavan) Dispossession (1988, N.H. Prasad) Sundance Cafe (1991, Ravi Davala) Still Life (1994, Subhadro Chowdhary) Jee Karta Tha (1997, Hansa Thapliyal) Chaitra (2000, Kranti Kanade...
This Ftii Golden-Jubilee package, earlier screened at the Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff, 2012), comprises diploma films made by filmmakers like Kumar Shahani, Girish Kasaravalli, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Sriram Raghavan and Rajan Khosa.
The 2nd Guwahati International Short Film Festival (Gisff) will take place from May 4-6, 2012 at District Library, Guwahati.
The films from Ftii to be screened at the festival have been listed below:
37 Down Manmad Passenger (10 min, 1967, Kumar Shahani) Deccan Queen (1966, K.S. Raju) Awashesh (1975, Girish Kasarvalli) Murder at Monkety Hill (1978, Vidhu Vinod Chopra) Bodhvriksha (1985, Rajan Khosa) The Eight Column Affair (1987, Sriram Raghavan) Dispossession (1988, N.H. Prasad) Sundance Cafe (1991, Ravi Davala) Still Life (1994, Subhadro Chowdhary) Jee Karta Tha (1997, Hansa Thapliyal) Chaitra (2000, Kranti Kanade...
- 4/6/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Idol (2011)
Kranti Kanade’s short Idol (2011) comes across first as a plain narrative of irreconcilable tension between the two generations in a Marathi family. The son is a devoted fan of Maradona, a football giant who scored the “goal of the century,” and his father believes in the worship of Ganesh and sticks to his fatherly authority. The son isn’t allowed to watch Maradona on TV in the house, for what was a crucial match. The tension leads to fits of temper and anger which seem sad but inevitable. The narrative remains with you to dwell on deeper issues of the divide in belief systems. The modernism of the football games and telecasts are pitted against the non-negotiable authority of the fathers. The short has the economy of the form, the brevity of presenting an issue and the insight of raising questions. A clean and crisp work, the film...
Kranti Kanade’s short Idol (2011) comes across first as a plain narrative of irreconcilable tension between the two generations in a Marathi family. The son is a devoted fan of Maradona, a football giant who scored the “goal of the century,” and his father believes in the worship of Ganesh and sticks to his fatherly authority. The son isn’t allowed to watch Maradona on TV in the house, for what was a crucial match. The tension leads to fits of temper and anger which seem sad but inevitable. The narrative remains with you to dwell on deeper issues of the divide in belief systems. The modernism of the football games and telecasts are pitted against the non-negotiable authority of the fathers. The short has the economy of the form, the brevity of presenting an issue and the insight of raising questions. A clean and crisp work, the film...
- 4/13/2011
- by Shekhar Deshpande
- DearCinema.com
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) has announced the 13 short films that will screen in the 2011 festival. The 9th edition of the festival will take place from April 12-17 at ArcLight Hollywood.
The shorts were selected from over 350 submissions worldwide. Two of the selected films are from Kranti Kanade and Nisha Ganatra who won the Iffla Film Fund Development Grant in 2010.
Iffla 2011 Shorts Category (Complete list of films with their descriptions, as in a press release by Iffla)
Beholder (Director/Writer Nisha Ganatra)
USA/Los Angeles Premiere/English
Imagine a future where it is mandatory to alter the sexual orientation of an unborn child who doesn’t fit the heterosexual norm.
Idol (Director/Writer Kranti Kanade)
India /Los Angeles Premiere/Marathi, English
A father and son fight in defense of each of their idols, be it Lord Ganesh or soccer superstar Maradona
In That Moment (Director/Writer Shripriya Mahesh...
The shorts were selected from over 350 submissions worldwide. Two of the selected films are from Kranti Kanade and Nisha Ganatra who won the Iffla Film Fund Development Grant in 2010.
Iffla 2011 Shorts Category (Complete list of films with their descriptions, as in a press release by Iffla)
Beholder (Director/Writer Nisha Ganatra)
USA/Los Angeles Premiere/English
Imagine a future where it is mandatory to alter the sexual orientation of an unborn child who doesn’t fit the heterosexual norm.
Idol (Director/Writer Kranti Kanade)
India /Los Angeles Premiere/Marathi, English
A father and son fight in defense of each of their idols, be it Lord Ganesh or soccer superstar Maradona
In That Moment (Director/Writer Shripriya Mahesh...
- 3/4/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Kranti Kanade
Kranti Kanade’s Against Itself, a project that received the first Iffla (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles) Film Fund Development Grant is set to begin production mid-March in India.
The film is about a secular expatriate American schoolmaster in India who struggles against a tide of anti-Christian sentiment that threatens his students, his school and his life. Harvey Keitel, who has starred in films like Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction and The Piano will play the lead role in the film.
Iffla assisted the project with $10,000 in development funds, providing networking opportunities and staging a script read at the most recent festival.
The 9th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) will take place April 12-17, 2011, at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles , California . It will feature over 40 films from or about India. The awards will be given for best feature film, documentary, and short film.
Kranti Kanade’s Against Itself, a project that received the first Iffla (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles) Film Fund Development Grant is set to begin production mid-March in India.
The film is about a secular expatriate American schoolmaster in India who struggles against a tide of anti-Christian sentiment that threatens his students, his school and his life. Harvey Keitel, who has starred in films like Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction and The Piano will play the lead role in the film.
Iffla assisted the project with $10,000 in development funds, providing networking opportunities and staging a script read at the most recent festival.
The 9th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) will take place April 12-17, 2011, at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles , California . It will feature over 40 films from or about India. The awards will be given for best feature film, documentary, and short film.
- 2/13/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
It’s hard not to have a little sympathy for Harvey “The Wolf” Keitel. One of the very finest screen actors of his generation, he is synonymous with starring in the very best films of the very best directors of his era. His turns for Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara and Quentin Tarantino are still as engrossing as they ever were, and yet, against all sense, Keitel has been virtually without an outstanding leading role in over a decade. This trend maybe about to be reversed, however, as Keitel looks to be taking on just about the most incongruous role of his career as an American headmaster of an Indian school in Against Itself.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Keitel’s schoolmaster character is a secular man trying desperately to prevent his pupils from being drawn into sectarian battles of their local communities. Keitel’s enthusiasm for the narrative and cognizance...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Keitel’s schoolmaster character is a secular man trying desperately to prevent his pupils from being drawn into sectarian battles of their local communities. Keitel’s enthusiasm for the narrative and cognizance...
- 2/9/2011
- by Ben Szwediuk
- Obsessed with Film
Announcements were made today that veteran actors Harvey Keitel and Richard Gere are set to star in two new feature films!
According to THR, Harvey Keitel has signed on to star in Against Itself, written and directed by Kranti Kanade. This will be his first Indian film and he will play an American schoolmaster in India struggling to protect his students and school from anti-Gandhian forces. Shooting begins in mid-March on the film, which will be filmed in English and will be possibly dubbed in Hindi.
Read more on Casting news: Harvey Keitel and Richard Gere sign on for new roles…...
According to THR, Harvey Keitel has signed on to star in Against Itself, written and directed by Kranti Kanade. This will be his first Indian film and he will play an American schoolmaster in India struggling to protect his students and school from anti-Gandhian forces. Shooting begins in mid-March on the film, which will be filmed in English and will be possibly dubbed in Hindi.
Read more on Casting news: Harvey Keitel and Richard Gere sign on for new roles…...
- 2/8/2011
- by Jim Napier
- GordonandtheWhale
You know, we give Robert De Niro a lot of flack for signing on to whatever crap project comes his way, but people seem to forget that Harvey Keitel has pretty much been doing the same thing for the past couple of decades too, taking his career where the paycheck pops up next, which leads to the extreme variations in the films he winds up doing. Case in point: THR reports that Keitel has signed on star in "Against Itself." Produced by Sanjay Singh ("Udaan") and written and directed by Kranti Kanade ("Mahek," "Chaitra") this one boasts some strong award-winning…...
- 2/7/2011
- The Playlist
His li’l film, Udaan, is sweeping up big honours and with his confidence boosted by 14 awards, debutant producer Sanjay Singh is now going international with an English film that could be dubbed in Hindi.Against Itself, written and directed by National Award winner Kranti Kanade, revolves around a boarding school in India and its secular teacher whose Gandhian principles invite discord.“He’s a westerner, yet more Indian than any Indian,” elucidates Singh, who, during a trip to Los Angeles last December, was able to send the script across to Harvey Keitel through his agent.Much to Singh’s delight, the ...
- 2/3/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
“Against Itself”, the latest feature film project of Kranti Kanade (Director: “Mahek” 2007) received a major boost this week, when it was selected for a development grant of Usd 10,000 from the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla). Kranti, trained at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) talks to Bikas Mishra about his upcoming project.
Tell us a little about the project "Against Itself"?
It is about a secular expatriate American schoolmaster in India who struggles against a tide of anti-Christian sentiment that threatens his students, his school and his life.
Is it the project, you are working on since you completed "Mahek". If you can share what all you've been doing after "Mahek" in 2007?
It has taken me more than three years to work on this screenplay. Mainly because I started with romanticism and then mid way through, I felt...
Tell us a little about the project "Against Itself"?
It is about a secular expatriate American schoolmaster in India who struggles against a tide of anti-Christian sentiment that threatens his students, his school and his life.
Is it the project, you are working on since you completed "Mahek". If you can share what all you've been doing after "Mahek" in 2007?
It has taken me more than three years to work on this screenplay. Mainly because I started with romanticism and then mid way through, I felt...
- 2/15/2010
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) has awarded the first Iffla Film Fund Development Grant to writer/director Kranti Kanade. Kanade, who is based in both Los Angeles and the Indian city of Pune, will receive a grant of $10,000 as well as Final Draft and Sony Creative software. His script will be showcased at a staged reading during the eighth annual Iffla that will take place April 20-25 at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Kanade’s script Against Itself centers on a secular expatriate American schoolmaster in India who struggles against a tide of anti-Christian sentiment that threatens his students, his school and his life.
“I am absolutely shocked with happiness by this beautiful news,” declared Kanade. “I am truly grateful to Iffla for giving me this award and this amazing opportunity.”
The development grant jury included acclaimed screenwriters Gill Dennis (Walk The Line, The Tatooed Soldier), Anurag Kashyap (Dev D,...
Kanade’s script Against Itself centers on a secular expatriate American schoolmaster in India who struggles against a tide of anti-Christian sentiment that threatens his students, his school and his life.
“I am absolutely shocked with happiness by this beautiful news,” declared Kanade. “I am truly grateful to Iffla for giving me this award and this amazing opportunity.”
The development grant jury included acclaimed screenwriters Gill Dennis (Walk The Line, The Tatooed Soldier), Anurag Kashyap (Dev D,...
- 2/11/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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