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  • India charms world panorama directors at IFFI

    India charms world panorama directors at IFFI

    MUMBAI: India, as the biggest film industry in the world, has charmed Italian and Mexican directors whose films are a part of the World Panorama at the 44th International Film Festival of India.

     

    Antonia Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia, joint directors of a mafia thriller Salvo and Eduardo Rossoff who directed a Belgian film Let me Survive were addressing a press conference at the media centre on 22 November.   

     

    “I am thrilled to be here. India is the biggest movie making country in the world. It is a humbling experience being here,” Rossoff said.

     

    Piazza said that this was his first time in India and that his Italian-French production, which cost one million Euros, had already picked up two awards at the Cannes film festival.

     

    “Our films are being distributed in 20 countries,” Piazza said. His film is set in Sicily and is about a blind girl and a protagonist who is a mafia boss.

     

    Piazza was thankful to the efforts taken by new and upcoming actress Sara Serraiocco, who plays the blind girl in the film.

     

    “We blindfolded her for days. Even during the rehearsals she was blindfolded so she could learn to find her way. During the actual shooting we used opaque contact lenses,” Piazzo said.

     

    Eduardo Rossoff, a Mexican who has made a Belgian film which his being screened at the festival, said that India resembled Mexico a lot.

     

    “There is the same chaos, love for spicy food and love for the people which Mexico has,” Rossoff said, adding that it made him feel like staying on here forever.

    “Its phenomenal being here because Mexico is 30 hours by flight and that there is interest here in my movie,” Rossoff said.

     

    Fabio Grassadonina, who was also present on the occasion, said that this was his first film as director.

  • Melbourne Fest to open with The Fairy on 21 July

    Melbourne Fest to open with The Fairy on 21 July

    MUMBAI: This year‘s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will begin with the Belgian film The Fairy and the world premiere of Fred Schepisi‘s The Eye Of The Storm when it opens July 21.


    Said MIFF artistic director Michelle Carey, “The Fairy is that rare case of a festival-friendly film that is honorably humanist and inventive yet unapologetically accessible and comical. That it is also whimsical and a little nostalgic makes it the perfect opening for the 60th MIFF.”


    Other important events include Morgan Spurlock who will present the Australian premiere of his POM Wonderful Presents: the Greatest Movie Ever Sold, and master classes with Lisa Gerrard and French comedy writer-director Frances Veber.
     
    In all 300 films will screen at the festival across a number of sidebars including Australian Showcase, Prime Time – a focus on works made for television by feature film directors, including the world premiere of ABCTV drama, The Slap, and a partnership with Festival Scope featuring 12 films from 12 countries in the European Union, from Greece to Germany, Slovenia to Spain. It will also include TeleScope will sketch a cinematic map of contemporary European film with highlights including Spain‘s Finnesterrae, and The Solitude of Prime Numbers.


    Other sidebars include Accent on Asia, which brings the very best of Asian cinema to MIFF audiences including legendary director Takeshi Kitano‘s Outrage and Thailand‘s Sivaroj Kongsakul‘s feature film, Eternity and This Sporting Life among others.


    he festival‘s ever-expanding, four-day film co-financing event MIFF 37?South Market, will again be held on the opening weekend with a record 100 selected Australian/NZ producers matched with national and international financing guests.