Welcome to "Bharat Katha" a collection of real stories of real people from India. 1n3b5s
Bharat Katha Bhārat is the official Sanskrit name of India, Bhārat Ganarājya, and the name is derived from the ancient Indian texts, the Puranas, which refers to the land that comprises India as Bharat Varsha, and uses this term to distinguish it from other Varshas or continents. Katha (story) is a folk narrative style of story telling. What is? - "Bharat Katha" is a collection of real stories of real people from India. How do I find them? - I'd like to thin...
Expanding Taiwanese film making 3tz6x
We may be returning to the success enjoyed by Taiwanese Cinema in 2000 when CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON ruled the international box office and YI YI was prominent in the film festival circuit. Over the last two years the most successful films in Taiwan were domestic productions, Taiwanese films have increased their presence at international film festivals and open access to the huge market in mainland China provides now an advantage no other foreign country enjoys. Potentially the...
New York: Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2011 6b4z1s
Running its 22nd edition in cooperation with the Film Society of Lincoln Center the Human Rights Watch Film Festival presented from June 16 – 3019 films from 12 countries and premiered 17. As in past editions, most productions selected were first rate prompting animated debates reinforcing the audience commitment to human rights issues. Thus the viewers enjoyed again reflexive cinema at its best. Most filmmakers were present to discuss their productions and to provide additional insights into...
New York: The Hebron Dilemma at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 152l12
THIS IS MY LAND…HEBRON is among the most important films featured at the June 2011 New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival. It is an outstanding Italian-Israeli documentary coproduced by Giulia Amati and Stephen Natanson which has received many rewards since its release in 2010. The film presents interviews with Israeli journalists and politicians as well as statements by spokes persons for the settlers and Palestinians. It provides an extraordinary insight into the mindsets of the warring p...
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Director: Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas.
DILLI is a moving collection of heartfelt interviews with Delhi slum dwellers. Its lens focuses on a group of dwellers, bringing to life the untold story of mass exodus of thousands who were bulldozed from their homes and transferred to a makeshift facade - Bawana without water, shelter or drainage, while the city was being beautified for Commonwealth Games 2010. DILLI - city of dreams - is a universal story of millions of underprivileged around the world. DILLI holds up a mirror not only to India, but to every nation around the world, whose poor live forgotten under bridges, children go hungry, and fathers work thousands of miles from their families to provide. DILLI brings awareness. And awareness is the first step towards action.
Bollywood at Cannes 235v52
During the 64th Cannes Film festival-Bollywood has made its presence with some projects including National award winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Heroine'-starring Aishwarya Rai, and 'Prague' directed by the creative head of 'Dev.D'- Ashish Shukla,also Shekhar Kapoors 'Bollywood-The Greatest Love Story Ever Told' was premiered in out of competition segment. Three projects with three different genres where Heroine is dealing with life of an actress as Madhurs real life docus, Bollywoo...
Ensemble screened on "Tolerance Day" in Aruba, golf cart driving on th eway to the theatre to introduce the film 71216t
Bruno Chatelin with the team of The Coffee Project (one from Israel, one from Palestine)
Cambodia Film Making – Postscript w5r2o
Among companies providing productions services to foreign film makers is Bophana Production a Pnomh Phen based company which has been involved in large scale productions and co-productions while producing documentaries on their own. Among most recently produced films serviced by Bophana are SAM SAME BUT DIFFERENT, THE CATCH, EMPIRE OF THE TIGER, and HOLY LOLA (bophanaproduction.com).There is no official censorship in Cambodia yet all scripts need to be approved. According to Cedric Elroy wh...
What’s Happening @ ScreenSingapore Today 5cv6k
In Conversation With Shekhar Kapur: Directing In The East & West Time: 9am to 10am Venue: Capella Ballroom, Sentosa : Patrick Frater Academy award winning director Shekhar Kapur is one of the globe’s most critically acclaimed film directors. This In Conversation session will discuss Kapur’s film-making journey. His travels have taken him from oil industry executive, to film-director, Oscar-winner, founder of an animation studio and on to talent show judg...
CANADIAN CITY TO NAME STREET AFTER RAJ KAPOOR, Toronto filmfest to host tribute to kapoor clan 434t5p
In a welcome gesture to Indian Cinema, the City of Brampton in Ontario, Canada, will name a street after the ultimate Showman – the late Raj Kapoor. Introducing a new street into the infrastructure of the city, when constructed it will be named, the ‘Raj Kapoor Crescent’. The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will host a tribute to the patriarch of the Kapoor clan, Raj Kapoor. Titled, ‘Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema’ the festival will run for six ...
New York Israel Film Festival 91y5w
There is no country other than the United States which has as elaborate and extensive a screening structure for Jewish and Israeli films. Several years ago I noted in an article about the New York film festival that there are more than fifty Jewish film festivals in the United States. According to jewishfilm.com there are now close to seventy Jewish film festivals in this country as well as at least four festivals devoted to Israeli films and two to Sephardic ones. In addition, there ar...
Pnomh Phen: Cambodian Film Making Challenges 19x16
Over a period of fifteen years through 1975, known as the golden age of the Khmer cinema, Cambodia produced almost 400 films. Under the four year terror regime of the Khmer Rouge the Cambodian film industry and most of its worker were terminated with only 30 films left intact. Laboratories, films, and theatres were destroyed; actors and directors slaughtered. Very few were able to leave the country. Others lived underground, like the noted Mao Ayuth, disguising their professional background fo...
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Director: Mohammad Reza Fartousi.
Pacha Pictures launch at 64th Cannes Film Festival 6v6d1a
Producer/actor Khaled Abol Naga singing, 'My Way' at 64th Cannes!photo by Vanessa McMahon
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CamboFest, Cambodia: Ongoing submissions now open for the 5th Edition 2f1j5j
CALL for ENTRIES! For the 5th Edition of CamboFest, Cambodia's longest running ongoing international movie event: Filmmakers submit here: http://www.cambofest.com/submit/submit.html ...or bring DVD/VCD screeners in person to the vintage 'Royal' cinema in Kampot, Cambodia to receive a fee waiver (see submissions page, above, for map and details) More Information on the CAMBOFEST Submission Form (PDF) ...
Nymphs of the Hindu Kush! Anneta Papathanasiou speaks. w3a4k
photo stills from filmANNETA PAPATHANASSIOU INTERVIEW about her film, “The Nymphs of Hindu Kush” (Oi nymfes tou Hindu Kush) (Greece, 2010), which first screened at the 13th International Thessaloniki Doc Fest 2011 two months ago. After many attempts to see her film and to speak with her, Anneta and I finally made our interview. And just before the circus of the 64th Cannes Film Festival begins with all its fiction films and fantasy glitz and glamor and yachts and movie myth, I thought ...
Interview with War Artist George Gittoes about Bin Laden arrest 2a2j4o
WITH OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE LIVING IN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN, George Gittoes sheds light on OBL, May 3, 2011 MUST READ! George Gittoes has over 20 years of experience living and traveling in Pakistan and currently lives in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Q: Sharon Abella: On our last interview on February 10, 2010, you mentioned that George Bush and President Obama said that, “Bin Laden was in Bajaur, but that everyone in Bajaur knows one another, and if Bin Laden were living there, they would...
CALL FOR ENTRIES in 6th CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1r4w5f
FILM SUBMISSIONS FOR CYIFF 2011: Please submit online at www.cyprusfilmfestival.org 6th Cyprus International Film Festival: 30 September-16 October 2011 Under the Auspices of Municipality of Nicosia We invite all new film directors to apply for the 6th Cyprus International Film Festival with their film(s). Films produced after January 1st 2008 can participate in CYIFF 2011. These films must be premieres in Cyprus. A. CYIFF 2011 General Categories: ...
Now seeking aspiring actors and presenters for Opening & Closing Ceremonies CYIFF – CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Cyprus International Film Festival is now happy to promote more young talent with our new Acting and Presenting division The European Year of Volunteering is both a celebration and a challenge. It is a celebration of the commitment of millions of people in Europe who work in their communities during their free time without being paid – for example in sc...
Call for Artistic Proposals (music, dance and theatrical acts) - CYIFF 2011 3v5h3q
CALL FOR ARTISTIC PROPOSALS IN CYPRUS INTERNATONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011 Τhe Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF) will be presenting the 6th annual edition in the capital of the beautiful island of Cyprus, Nicosia. The festival is Under the Auspices of the Municipality of Nicosia. This prestigious and internationally recognized festival celebrates films and videos made by new rising film directors from all over the world, screening a selection of works submitted from...
CALL FOR ENTRIES in 6th CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1r4w5f
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }p.western { }p.cjk { font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; } FILM SUBMISSIONS FOR CYIFF 2011: Please submit online at www.cyprusfilmfestival.org 6th Cyprus International Film Festival: 30 September-16 October 2011 Under the Auspices of Municipality of Nicosia We invite all new film directors to apply for the 6th Cyprus International Film Festival with their film(s). Films produced after January 1st ...
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The 6th edition of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival opens on May 5th 3v4w4p
2011 Film Selections Online Tickets Now Available!2011 Highlights 2011 Film Categories CONFLICTS and ISSUES TRADITION and IDENTITY HISTORY and LEGACY INSPIRATION CONFLICTS and ISSUES He's My Girl (La Folle Histoired'Amour de Simon Eskenazy) Los Angeles Premiere! Comedy//100 minutes/2009 Written & Directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann Starring Antoine de Caunes, Mehdi Dehbi and Elsa Zylberstein French with English subtitles Based on th...
SON OF BABYLON at HPIX 2011 4f1x56
On 'Son of Babylon' Son of Babylon screened at this year's Copenhagen Film Festival 2011 ‘SON OF BABYLON' (2010) is a fiction film based on reality about three weeks following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the beginning of the Iraq War. Writer/director Mohamed Al-Daradji spent seven years on this poetic masterpiece that touches on the timely and hypersensitive subject of the Iraq War and the country now trying to pick itself up from devastation and ruin. ...
