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 ...

Danis Tanović, Janus Metz, Samuel Maoz, Shekhar Kapur and Alex McDowell“Filming War” — Panel with filmmakers Danis Tanović, Janus Metz and Samuel MaozNo other events have influenced the narrative structures and aesthetic of films so much as the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries. High pressure and life-risking situations are inherent to filmmaking processes that depict war and crisis situations, whether they are fiction or documentary. During the ninth Berlinale Talent Campus, t...

MELA will showcase Jan 21st- Feb 15th South Asian performing arts that include new works and classics: THE FILMS OF SATYAJIT RAY, commemorating the renowned humanistic Indian film director with newly restored films. KALIGHAT, a new play by Paul Knox with choreography by Myna Mukherjee, following the journey of a group of western volunteers at Mother Teresa's home for the dying in Calcutta. Presented in association with Circle East. NAYIKAS, New York's first resident classical Indian ...