Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya will be the opening film of the Chicago South Asian Film Festival which will begin on September 30, 2011.
The festival will close with Sonali Gulati’s documentary I Am while Nila Madhab Panda’s I Am Kalam will be screened as the centerpiece of the festival.
Amole Gupte’s Stanley Ka Dabba will also be presented as part of the festival.
The other films that will be screened at the festival are: Athula Liyanage’s Bambara Wallala, Geeta Malik’s Troublemaker, Moinak Biswas and Arjun Gourisaria’s Spring In The Colony, Hemant Gaba’s Shuttlecock Boys, Dr. Bharathy Manjula’s XXWhy, Anu Rana’s Ring Laila, Harjant Gill’s Roots of Love, Nasir Khan’s Made in Pakistan, Pankaj Johar’s documentary Still Standing, and Shelley Saywell’s documentary In the Name of the Family.
The short film section will have Pulkit Datta’s Jason, Sameer Acharya...
The festival will close with Sonali Gulati’s documentary I Am while Nila Madhab Panda’s I Am Kalam will be screened as the centerpiece of the festival.
Amole Gupte’s Stanley Ka Dabba will also be presented as part of the festival.
The other films that will be screened at the festival are: Athula Liyanage’s Bambara Wallala, Geeta Malik’s Troublemaker, Moinak Biswas and Arjun Gourisaria’s Spring In The Colony, Hemant Gaba’s Shuttlecock Boys, Dr. Bharathy Manjula’s XXWhy, Anu Rana’s Ring Laila, Harjant Gill’s Roots of Love, Nasir Khan’s Made in Pakistan, Pankaj Johar’s documentary Still Standing, and Shelley Saywell’s documentary In the Name of the Family.
The short film section will have Pulkit Datta’s Jason, Sameer Acharya...
- 8/23/2011
- 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
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