RIVER TO RIVER, FLORENCE CHITTAGONG vs CHITTAGONG, AND THE WINDS OF CHANGE  by Alex Deleon    Bedabrata Pain (Bengali: বেদব্রত পাইন; born 27 March 1963, West Bengal, India) is a new Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Bedabrata Pain is also inventor of the CMOS image sensor.   One of the most interesting things about Chittagong, the film, is that it is the debut feature of a 49 year old dir...

    Day 1 Opening at 5.30 pm Opening film screening at 7.30 pm Opening dinner at 8.30 pm   Guest of honor:        Honorable Foreign Minister Special guest:           Secretary of Information Ministry Guest of honor:         Secretary of Tourism Ministry Guest of honor:         City Mayor of Chittagong  Honorable guest:       foreign delegates   Day 2   General film screening w...

Considered the largest film festival in Mexico the Expresion en Corto Short Film Festival run annually since 1997 has morphed this year into the International Film Festival of Guanajuato. Held from July 22 – August 2, the festival has further expanded drawing more visitors and adding more programs in spite of economic constraints. According to the latest figures, an audience of close to 90 000 attended this primarily publicly funded festival which received about 2500 submissions from more than...