Konkona Sen Sharma has definitely had a great start to the first half of 2017, amidst all the controversies and the ‘ban’ fiasco! The actress and director recently took home the prestigious award for the Best Actress at the New York Indian Film Festival for her film, Lipstick Under My Burkha. This is the second win for the 37 year old actress, who also won the Best Director Award for her debut film, A Death in the Gunj. While Konkona and the makers of the film Lipstick Under My Burkha couldn’t manage a screening in India till now, courtesy the censor board deeming the film as ‘vulgur’ and ‘too sexual’, the film has been getting rave reviews wherever it has been screened till now, most recent being the acclaimed New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff). Early this year, the Censor Board projected a huge ban on the film, which is directed...
- 5/9/2017
- FilmiPop
It’s over but it opened L.A.’s newest spring season of unlimited international film screenings all over the city throughout the month of April and into Cannes.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
- 4/21/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
A Billion Colour Story wins audience award for best narrative.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (Iffla) wrapped on Sunday with a screening of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Hotel Salvation and the presentation of the awards.
Bobby Sarma Baruah’s The Golden Wing (pictured) won the grand jury prize for best feature, while Karishma Dube’s Devi earned the best short prize.
In the audience awards, Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy’s A Billion Colour Story won best feature (narrative) and An Insignificant Man by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla took the best feature (documentary) prize.
Amar Kaushik’s Aaba was named best short.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles took place from April 5-9 at Regal L.A. Live.
For further details click here.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (Iffla) wrapped on Sunday with a screening of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Hotel Salvation and the presentation of the awards.
Bobby Sarma Baruah’s The Golden Wing (pictured) won the grand jury prize for best feature, while Karishma Dube’s Devi earned the best short prize.
In the audience awards, Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy’s A Billion Colour Story won best feature (narrative) and An Insignificant Man by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla took the best feature (documentary) prize.
Amar Kaushik’s Aaba was named best short.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles took place from April 5-9 at Regal L.A. Live.
For further details click here.
- 4/10/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Four jury prize winners qualify for Academy consideration.
Top brass at Aspen Film handed out more than $15,000 in prizes as the 26th Aspen Shortsfest concluded on Sunday evening.
Amar Kaushik’s Aaba (Grandfather) from India won best drama and Martha Gregory’s Us entry Three Red Sweaters prevailed in the documentary competition.
Fabio Friedli’s Swiss selection In A Nutshell won best animation and the best comedy award went to Carlo Francisco Manatad’s Fatima Maria Torres And The Invasion Of Space Shuttle Pinas 25 from the Philippines.
Call Of Cuteness (Germany) by Brenda Lien won best short short. The animation, comedy, drama and short shorts winners are all eligible for Oscar consideration.
Schoolyard Blues (Sweden) by Maria Eriksson was named best student short.
The top five audience award winners in order of most votes were: Eyes Of Exodus (Greece-usa) by Alexandria Liveris; In a Nutshell by Fabio Friedli; Get Up, Kinshasa! (France...
Top brass at Aspen Film handed out more than $15,000 in prizes as the 26th Aspen Shortsfest concluded on Sunday evening.
Amar Kaushik’s Aaba (Grandfather) from India won best drama and Martha Gregory’s Us entry Three Red Sweaters prevailed in the documentary competition.
Fabio Friedli’s Swiss selection In A Nutshell won best animation and the best comedy award went to Carlo Francisco Manatad’s Fatima Maria Torres And The Invasion Of Space Shuttle Pinas 25 from the Philippines.
Call Of Cuteness (Germany) by Brenda Lien won best short short. The animation, comedy, drama and short shorts winners are all eligible for Oscar consideration.
Schoolyard Blues (Sweden) by Maria Eriksson was named best student short.
The top five audience award winners in order of most votes were: Eyes Of Exodus (Greece-usa) by Alexandria Liveris; In a Nutshell by Fabio Friedli; Get Up, Kinshasa! (France...
- 4/10/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A certain mutant send-off may have gotten the most global attention out of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, but if one retracts their claws, some of the finest in major international cinema comes into focus. Ahead of our picks of the best of the festival, the jury has delivered their awards.
Led by Paul Verhoeven, the jury made up of Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Olafur Eliasson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Jentsch, Diego Luna, and Wang Quan’an gave the Hungarian drama On Body and Soul the top prize of Golden Bear, while Aki Kaurismäki picked up Best Director for The Other Side of Hope and Kim Min-hee earned Best Actress for her latest Hong Sang-soo collaboration On The Beach At Night Alone.
Check out the winners below (with a hat tip to Deadline) along with links to reviews where available. One can also see our full coverage here.
Golden Bear for Best...
Led by Paul Verhoeven, the jury made up of Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Olafur Eliasson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Jentsch, Diego Luna, and Wang Quan’an gave the Hungarian drama On Body and Soul the top prize of Golden Bear, while Aki Kaurismäki picked up Best Director for The Other Side of Hope and Kim Min-hee earned Best Actress for her latest Hong Sang-soo collaboration On The Beach At Night Alone.
Check out the winners below (with a hat tip to Deadline) along with links to reviews where available. One can also see our full coverage here.
Golden Bear for Best...
- 2/19/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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