LOCARNO ~ The Burmese short film “Pyar Pyar Nyo Yaung Maing Ta-lei-lei” (Cobalt Blue) gets its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival today.
Directed by Aung Phyoe, and with a running time of 27 minutes, the film is entered in the Pardi di Domani (Leopards of Tomorrow) section, one of four sections at this year’s festival.
The Pardi di Domani competition screens shorts and medium-length films by worldwide independent filmmakers or film schoo...
16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: XI
Sixteen years is a long time in the life of a film festival. It seems an even bigger achievement when you consider the upheavals that the Third Eye Asian Film Festival has undergone during its tenure. In fact, it is a miracle that it has continued, against all odds. Asian Film Foundation, headed by Kiran Shantaram, son of late V. Shantaram, remains the driving force, as does Sudhir Nandgaonkar, journalist and a bunch of teenage students pool in their res...
16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: IV
Screenings continued on Day 4, 5 and 6, and two films were memorable. One was a blast from 1956, made by an all-time great, and the other a laudable 2011 effort, shot in his home country, guerrilla style, by a returning prodigy, without permission
I managed to attend nine shows out of the 15, which is a reasonable score. But here I will speak of just two films, since there is much to say.
Return to Burma, 2011, 84 min
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16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival opens in Mumbai on 21 December
Prabhat Chitra Mandal, one of India’s oldest and most active film societies that is celebrating its golden jubilee this year, in collaboration with P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, is holding its 16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai, supported by the Department of Culture, Government of Maharashtra. The festival will be inaugurated on Thursday, the 21st of December, 2117. The inauguration will be followed ...
The New York Asia Society presented from March 6 – 13 Homecoming Myanmar, the first US screening of the films by Midi Z, a Burmese-Taiwanese film maker.
Under the military dictatorship the once vibrant Burmese film industry was destroyed and is now slowly recovering; overcoming the obstacles of having no film infra-structure and competing with pirated films. Midi Z was born in 1982 in Myanmar to ethnic Chinese parentage and raised there. He left at the age of 16 for Taiwan where h...
