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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Bruno Chatelin with the team of The Coffee Project (one from Israel, one from Palestine)
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...
In Conversation With Shekhar Kapur: Directing In The East & West
Time: 9am to 10am
Venue: Capella Ballroom, Sentosa
Moderator: 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...
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 ...
There is no country other than the United States which has as elaborate and extensive a screening support 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...
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...
Director: Mohammad Reza Fartousi.
Producer/actor Khaled Abol Naga singing, 'My Way' at 64th Cannes!photo by Vanessa McMahon
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) ...
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 ...
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...
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:
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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
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...
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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
...
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/France/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...
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.
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