Lucia, Director Pawan Kumar’s Kannada-language film Lucia has won the coveted Audience Award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival (Liff, July 18-25). The inventive crowd-funded film, powered by UK-based online outfit Distrify, delighted sold out audiences across the city.
Pawan Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?). The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director – Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film...
Pawan Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?). The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director – Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film...
- 7/30/2013
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
A still from Lucia
Kannada-language film Lucia directed by Pawan Kumar has won the Audience Award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival that concluded recently.
The crowd-funded film revolves around an usher at a decrepit cinema who suffers from insomnia. His life changes when he starts getting weird and wonderful dreams but with a caveat. Set in the teeming young metropolis that is Bangalore, the film is a turbulent ride where the lines between dreams and reality are blurred to delirious effect. Lucia features Sathish, Shruthi Hariharan, Hardhika Shetty and Achyuth Kumar.
The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, went to Anurag Goswami for Kaun Kamleshwar?
The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director -Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award goes to...
Kannada-language film Lucia directed by Pawan Kumar has won the Audience Award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival that concluded recently.
The crowd-funded film revolves around an usher at a decrepit cinema who suffers from insomnia. His life changes when he starts getting weird and wonderful dreams but with a caveat. Set in the teeming young metropolis that is Bangalore, the film is a turbulent ride where the lines between dreams and reality are blurred to delirious effect. Lucia features Sathish, Shruthi Hariharan, Hardhika Shetty and Achyuth Kumar.
The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, went to Anurag Goswami for Kaun Kamleshwar?
The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director -Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award goes to...
- 7/30/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Pawan Kumar’s Lucia has won the audience award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival.
The crowd-funded film, backed by UK-based online outfit Distrify and Kannada cinema’s first crowd-funded film, played to sold out audiences across the city.
Director Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?).
The jury, comprising Ill Manors producer Atif Ghani, documentary director Kim Longinotto, BBC London’s Sunny Grewal, shorts director Meghna Gupta and Liff’s Satwant Gill, said: the short film was “confident and ambitious in its storytelling, gave us engaging...
The crowd-funded film, backed by UK-based online outfit Distrify and Kannada cinema’s first crowd-funded film, played to sold out audiences across the city.
Director Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?).
The jury, comprising Ill Manors producer Atif Ghani, documentary director Kim Longinotto, BBC London’s Sunny Grewal, shorts director Meghna Gupta and Liff’s Satwant Gill, said: the short film was “confident and ambitious in its storytelling, gave us engaging...
- 7/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A still from “Filmistaan”
Nitin Kakkar won the “German Star of India” award for his feature film Filmistaan at the 10th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart. The award comprising cash prize of 4000 Euro is given to a film that narrates a very serious political theme in a very poetic and humorous way.
The German Star of India in the short film category went to Calcutta Taxi by Vikram Dasgupta. Set in the grimy backdrop of a city going through a political crisis, Calcutta Taxi unravels the story of three lives that coincide and affect each other.
Salma by Kim Longinotto was awarded the German Star of India in the documentary category. Salma chronicles the life of a woman from south India who was locked by her parents on reaching puberty and decided to fight her way back to the outside world twenty-five years later. Now she is a well-known poet.
The...
Nitin Kakkar won the “German Star of India” award for his feature film Filmistaan at the 10th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart. The award comprising cash prize of 4000 Euro is given to a film that narrates a very serious political theme in a very poetic and humorous way.
The German Star of India in the short film category went to Calcutta Taxi by Vikram Dasgupta. Set in the grimy backdrop of a city going through a political crisis, Calcutta Taxi unravels the story of three lives that coincide and affect each other.
Salma by Kim Longinotto was awarded the German Star of India in the documentary category. Salma chronicles the life of a woman from south India who was locked by her parents on reaching puberty and decided to fight her way back to the outside world twenty-five years later. Now she is a well-known poet.
The...
- 7/22/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Yesterday we gave you an overview about the exciting London Indian Film Festival that is running from July 18th to the 24th. Today we thought we would give you the full list of films and events that will be featured at the Beyond Bollywood film festival!
Films
B.A. Pass | Dir. Ajay Bahl | Hindi, Punjabi, with English subtitles
The Graduate meets film noir in this sizzling tale of seduction and betrayal where a young man is seduced by a gorgeous cougar who leaves him entranced, that is until she farms him out to entertain her lady friends with dangerous consequences. The film’s steamy trailer drew millions of hits on YouTube and the eroticism of the film has drawn the ire of India’s moral police.
Bombay Talkies | Dirs. Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Bannerjee, Anurag Kashyap | Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles | Closing Film.
Mumbai’s spectacular homage to 100 years of...
Films
B.A. Pass | Dir. Ajay Bahl | Hindi, Punjabi, with English subtitles
The Graduate meets film noir in this sizzling tale of seduction and betrayal where a young man is seduced by a gorgeous cougar who leaves him entranced, that is until she farms him out to entertain her lady friends with dangerous consequences. The film’s steamy trailer drew millions of hits on YouTube and the eroticism of the film has drawn the ire of India’s moral police.
Bombay Talkies | Dirs. Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Bannerjee, Anurag Kashyap | Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles | Closing Film.
Mumbai’s spectacular homage to 100 years of...
- 6/28/2013
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
10th Indian film festival Stuttgart has announced its selection. The festival will take place from July 17 to 21 in the German city of Stuttgart.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened at the festival:-
Ashok Rane’s doucmentay Being with Apu
Blood Brothers by Steve Hoover
Dancing Colours by Stuttgart Media University students
Liv & Ingmar by Dheeraj Akolkar
Much Ado about Knotting by Geetika Narang Abbasi and Anandana Kapur
No Problem! 6 Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas by Yasmin Kidwai
Powerless by Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar
Resonance of Mother’s Melody by Dip Bhuyan
Salma by Kim Longinotto
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
The World Before her by Nisha Pahuja
Bombay Talkies by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar and Zoya Akhtar
Shahid by Hansal Mehta
Chokher Bali by Rituparno Ghosh
Bawdi – The Well by Viver Soni
Paroksh by Kuldip Patel
Thaambadhyam by Yugandhara Muthukrishnan
Umbartha by...
Here is the complete list of films to be screened at the festival:-
Ashok Rane’s doucmentay Being with Apu
Blood Brothers by Steve Hoover
Dancing Colours by Stuttgart Media University students
Liv & Ingmar by Dheeraj Akolkar
Much Ado about Knotting by Geetika Narang Abbasi and Anandana Kapur
No Problem! 6 Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas by Yasmin Kidwai
Powerless by Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar
Resonance of Mother’s Melody by Dip Bhuyan
Salma by Kim Longinotto
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
The World Before her by Nisha Pahuja
Bombay Talkies by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar and Zoya Akhtar
Shahid by Hansal Mehta
Chokher Bali by Rituparno Ghosh
Bawdi – The Well by Viver Soni
Paroksh by Kuldip Patel
Thaambadhyam by Yugandhara Muthukrishnan
Umbartha by...
- 6/19/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Aayna Ka Bayna
Samit Kakkad’s Marathi feature Aayna Ka Bayna will close the 13th ReelWorld Film Festival to be held from April 10 – 14, 2013 in Toronto.
Suman Ghosh’s Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights and Vikram Dasgupta’s Calcutta Taxi will also be presented under the Free Family Screening.
Aayna Ka Bayna narrates the story of nine juvenile delinquents in a detention centre under a tyrant warden. They dance for passion, for hope and for their dreams to come true. The film released in India in November 2012.
Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights is about an eighty year old pensioner who wants the street lights switched off during the day to save waste and fights bureaucracy. The film has traveled to the Busan International Film Festival 2012 where it was picked up by the Global Film Initiative for North American distribution. The film premiered in India at the Mumbai...
Samit Kakkad’s Marathi feature Aayna Ka Bayna will close the 13th ReelWorld Film Festival to be held from April 10 – 14, 2013 in Toronto.
Suman Ghosh’s Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights and Vikram Dasgupta’s Calcutta Taxi will also be presented under the Free Family Screening.
Aayna Ka Bayna narrates the story of nine juvenile delinquents in a detention centre under a tyrant warden. They dance for passion, for hope and for their dreams to come true. The film released in India in November 2012.
Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights is about an eighty year old pensioner who wants the street lights switched off during the day to save waste and fights bureaucracy. The film has traveled to the Busan International Film Festival 2012 where it was picked up by the Global Film Initiative for North American distribution. The film premiered in India at the Mumbai...
- 4/5/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Umesh Kulkarni
Marathi-language filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will be on the International Jury of the upcoming Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Two Indian films will compete in this section: Achele by Clara Kraft Isono and Calcutta Taxi by Vikram Dasgupta.
Umesh Kulkarni’s films, along with other Indian shorts, will be screened in a Retrospective called ‘Namaste India’.
Kulkarni’s Vilay and Gaarud have screened at the festival earlier.
The 35th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival will be held from 1st to 9th February, 2013.
Marathi-language filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will be on the International Jury of the upcoming Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Two Indian films will compete in this section: Achele by Clara Kraft Isono and Calcutta Taxi by Vikram Dasgupta.
Umesh Kulkarni’s films, along with other Indian shorts, will be screened in a Retrospective called ‘Namaste India’.
Kulkarni’s Vilay and Gaarud have screened at the festival earlier.
The 35th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival will be held from 1st to 9th February, 2013.
- 1/4/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Shorts often help in the discovery of upcoming talents. No wonder that a few of the filmmakers featured in our list are midway through their debut features.
We prepared this list based on parameters such as selection in A-list festivals, popularity among festival selectors and awards.
Still from Cafe Regular, Cairo
Cafe Regular, Cairo
Ritesh Batra shot his Arabic short film in a cafe in Cairo with local actors. It won the International Critics’ Prize (Fipresci Prize) at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and a Special Jury mention at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. Besides, the film was screened at the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, Fribourg International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012. In yet another feat, Arte France (Franco-German TV network) picked up television rights for the film.
Shor
Written and directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, Shor won the Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Award 2012 at the London Indian Film Festival.
We prepared this list based on parameters such as selection in A-list festivals, popularity among festival selectors and awards.
Still from Cafe Regular, Cairo
Cafe Regular, Cairo
Ritesh Batra shot his Arabic short film in a cafe in Cairo with local actors. It won the International Critics’ Prize (Fipresci Prize) at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and a Special Jury mention at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. Besides, the film was screened at the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, Fribourg International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012. In yet another feat, Arte France (Franco-German TV network) picked up television rights for the film.
Shor
Written and directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, Shor won the Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Award 2012 at the London Indian Film Festival.
- 12/31/2012
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Miriam Chandy Menacherry’s The Rat Race won the award for best documentary, Vikram Dasgupta’s Calcutta Taxi was awarded the best short and Bedabrata Pain’s feature Chittagong bagged two awards- The Jury Award and the Piaggio Foundation Award at the 12th River to River Indian Film Festival in Florence, Italy.
The Rat Race is based on the night lives of Mumbai municipal corporation’s rat killing department. The film was screened at the 14th Mumbai International Film Festival.
Debutant Vikram Dasgupta’s Calcutta Taxi, a Canada – India co-production, is set in the backdrop of the political crisis of Calcutta. The film revolves around three lives that coincide and affect each other in a way that each one gains and loses something. The film will compete in the 35th International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand.
Bedabrata Pain’s Chittagong that won two awards, is set in the turbulence of the 1930s British India.
The Rat Race is based on the night lives of Mumbai municipal corporation’s rat killing department. The film was screened at the 14th Mumbai International Film Festival.
Debutant Vikram Dasgupta’s Calcutta Taxi, a Canada – India co-production, is set in the backdrop of the political crisis of Calcutta. The film revolves around three lives that coincide and affect each other in a way that each one gains and loses something. The film will compete in the 35th International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand.
Bedabrata Pain’s Chittagong that won two awards, is set in the turbulence of the 1930s British India.
- 12/14/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Two Indian films, Achele (Sister) and Calcutta Taxi will compete in International Competition’ section at the 35th International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand. The festival will run from 1st to 9th February, 2013. 138 Indian films were submitted to the festival out of which these two were selected.
Achele written and directed by Clara Kraft Isono, is a UK-India-England co-production based on two sisters in the remote area of Ladakh who struggle with their imminent separation.
Debutant Vikram Dasgupta’s Calcutta Taxi, a Canada – India co-production, is set in the backdrop of the political crisis of Calcutta. The film revolves around three lives that coincide and affect each other in a way that each one gains and loses something. The film is written, directed, produced and edited by Dasgupta.
India will be the guest of honour with a special focus. The winning short films from Clermont-Ferrand are being screened in Kolkata, Chennai and Pune in September.
Achele written and directed by Clara Kraft Isono, is a UK-India-England co-production based on two sisters in the remote area of Ladakh who struggle with their imminent separation.
Debutant Vikram Dasgupta’s Calcutta Taxi, a Canada – India co-production, is set in the backdrop of the political crisis of Calcutta. The film revolves around three lives that coincide and affect each other in a way that each one gains and loses something. The film is written, directed, produced and edited by Dasgupta.
India will be the guest of honour with a special focus. The winning short films from Clermont-Ferrand are being screened in Kolkata, Chennai and Pune in September.
- 12/12/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur I will open the 12th edition of the River to River Florence Indian Film Festival, while its sequel Gangs of Wasseypur II will be the closing film of the festival. A documentary on the life and career of Amitabh Bachchan, Everlasting Light by Ram Madhvani, will be screened during the festival. Bachchan will also be present for a Q&A session post the screening of his film Black.
Besides film screening, the festival will also host interactive sessions on topics like, ‘Shakti: Women in Indian cinema and literature’ and ‘Bollywood and the expression of emotions in today’s India’.
The festival will run from 7th to 13th December in Florence followed by an edition in Rome from 14th to 16th December 2012.
The films in the 2012 line up are:
Much Ado About Knotting
Dir.: Geetika Narang Abbasi and Anandana Kapur
Bharatmata Ki Jai (Long live Bharatmata)
Dir.
Besides film screening, the festival will also host interactive sessions on topics like, ‘Shakti: Women in Indian cinema and literature’ and ‘Bollywood and the expression of emotions in today’s India’.
The festival will run from 7th to 13th December in Florence followed by an edition in Rome from 14th to 16th December 2012.
The films in the 2012 line up are:
Much Ado About Knotting
Dir.: Geetika Narang Abbasi and Anandana Kapur
Bharatmata Ki Jai (Long live Bharatmata)
Dir.
- 11/23/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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