Bangladeshi filmmaker Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s 2020 London and Busan selection “The Salt in Our Waters,” which will play at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Nov. 8, is a stark reminder of the issues the event is trying to highlight.
Sumit shot the film during the monsoon of 2018 in the hamlet of Gangamatir Char, home to 20 fishing families, in Patuakhali district, located at the southernmost tip of Bangladesh.
But, Gangamatir Char does not exist anymore.
Sumit was unable to return to the location for a year and a half due to the pandemic and finally managed to visit in July this year.
“When I returned to that beloved place, to those beloved people, all I found were some broken tree branches and the rising tide,” Sumit tells Variety. “I learned that the sea level in this area has risen dramatically in the last two to three years.
Sumit shot the film during the monsoon of 2018 in the hamlet of Gangamatir Char, home to 20 fishing families, in Patuakhali district, located at the southernmost tip of Bangladesh.
But, Gangamatir Char does not exist anymore.
Sumit was unable to return to the location for a year and a half due to the pandemic and finally managed to visit in July this year.
“When I returned to that beloved place, to those beloved people, all I found were some broken tree branches and the rising tide,” Sumit tells Variety. “I learned that the sea level in this area has risen dramatically in the last two to three years.
- 11/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Marco Orsini, president of the not-for-profit International Emerging Film Talent Association (Iefta), is firmly in favor of a back to basics distribution approach for independent films from the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region, the Horn of Africa and some parts of South Asia.
Orsini says that quality independent films would most likely be selected at some high-end film festivals and attract sales agents, but Covid-19 shut down many of the potential theatrical markets for these films. Many went straight to VOD platforms instead.
“I think a lot of the VOD platforms have begun to put a sting into how sales agents work, they become diminished,” Orsini told Variety in an interview conducted at the recent El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt. “But at the same time, filmmakers, I feel, have been brainwashed to believe that the golden carrot is Netflix.”
“I think that would be a great end game…...
Orsini says that quality independent films would most likely be selected at some high-end film festivals and attract sales agents, but Covid-19 shut down many of the potential theatrical markets for these films. Many went straight to VOD platforms instead.
“I think a lot of the VOD platforms have begun to put a sting into how sales agents work, they become diminished,” Orsini told Variety in an interview conducted at the recent El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt. “But at the same time, filmmakers, I feel, have been brainwashed to believe that the golden carrot is Netflix.”
“I think that would be a great end game…...
- 11/1/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Rezwan Shahriar Sumit was born and raised in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. “City Life”, his first short, earned him a place at the Berlinale Talents in 2008. He went on to study at the Graduate Film Program of New York University as a Tisch Fellow. There he produced Barbara Cigarroa’s short “Dios Nunca Muere” that played at NYFF, AFI Fest, Palm Springs, and Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. His first feature “The Salt in Our Waters” has been awarded France’s Cnc Aide aux cinémas du monde, Tfl Audience Design Fund, Bangladesh’s national film grant, and the Spike Lee Fellowship.
On the occasion of “The Salt in Our Waters” having its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival we spoke to writer and director Rezwan Shahriar Sumit about the hardship of finding finance, Director Spike Lee’s ray of hope, working with Dop Chananun Chotrungroj, studying abroad and much more.
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On the occasion of “The Salt in Our Waters” having its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival we spoke to writer and director Rezwan Shahriar Sumit about the hardship of finding finance, Director Spike Lee’s ray of hope, working with Dop Chananun Chotrungroj, studying abroad and much more.
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- 10/24/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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