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  • NFDC India Screenwriters’ Lab 2013 heads to TIFF

    NFDC India Screenwriters’ Lab 2013 heads to TIFF

    MUMBAI: Announcing its final selection of six projects for the 2013Screenwriters’ Lab, from over 350 applications, NFDC (National Film Development Corporation – India) relocates the first stage of its Lab to Toronto in co-operation with TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). The Lab has previously been hosted by Locarno and Venice festivals, each having welcomed two editions of the Screenwriters’ Lab.

     

    TIFF Bailey Artistic director Cameron said, “Indian independent cinema is taking the world by storm and it all begins with its screenwriters. We’re proud to welcome this workshop to the Toronto International Film Festival, and support the NFDC’s important work.”

     

    NFDC MD Nina Lath Gupta said, “NFDC is delighted to be expanding it’s long relationship with the festival by bringing the now renowned Film Bazaar Screenwriters’ Lab to Toronto for the first time, allowing our 6 writers’ creative process to be imbedded within TIFF, especially as Ritesh Batra’s acclaimed The Lunchbox, developed in our 2011 edition of this same lab is honoured with a Gala screening on 8 September”

     

    The six projects selected are to be work-shopped first in Toronto and further in Goa in November, before being presented in the annual Film Bazaar Co Pro Market:Nikhil Mahajan’s first feature Pune 52 was released in 2013 and was a follow up to his feature Doc Half a Billion Dreams (2011)

     

    Bela Negi wrote and directed the 2010 comedy Daayen Ya Baayen (Right or Left) and revisits the quirkiness of Indian rural life in this project which will be her second feature

    Varun Grover is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Anurag Kashyap as lyricist for That Girl in the Yellow Boots and Gangs of Wasseypur, and Vasan Bala’s Peddlers, Varun also has emerged through TV stand-up comedy writing.

     

    Shanker Raman is an award winning Cinematographer and (co) writer known for Frozen (TIFF 2007) and Harud (Autumn- TIFF 2010)

     

    Ashish Aryan is transitioning from a successful commercials career, taking on his first feature film with his project T for Taj Mahal, which he’ll be co-writing with Sachin Ladia, one of the writers of Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur

     

    Rajesh Jalla is a renowned documentary director best known for Children of the Pyre (Best Doc Montreal 2013) who turns his lyrical style towards his first fiction feature project.

  • Cameron to use performance capture in water for Avatar sequel

    Cameron to use performance capture in water for Avatar sequel

    MUMBAI: The forthcoming sequel of James Cameron‘s Avatar will feature underwater motion capture, according to Jon Landau, co-producer of the record-breaking first film.
     
    Speaking at the Technology Summit on Cinema in Las Vegas, Landau said Cameron will take advantage of the technologies brilliant people are putting out in the next two films, it has been reported. "James has proposed to make use of the process because we can simulate it visually but can‘t simulate it experientially for them," Landau has reportedly said. He described the process as performance capture in water.
     
    Earlier, Cameron hinted at the possibility of exploring the oceans of Pandora, the forest moon setting for his 2009 3D box-office hit in the films to come in time to come. "We want to take advantage of the technologies brilliant people are putting out to make the next two movies even more emotionally engaging and visually tantalising, and to really wrap up the story arc of our two main characters," Landau added.
     
    Cameron had also said that he would shoot part two and three back-to-back and release them in December 2014 and 2015 respectively. There is also talk of a fourth film that may manifest as a prequel.

  • Cameron moving to New Zealand

    Cameron moving to New Zealand

    MUMBAI: James Cameron is moving to New Zealand with his family where he wants to run a farm and help build the local film industry. Cameron, who directed blockbusters like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic and Avatar, has purchased 250 hectares and applied for residency.
    Speaking on Skype from an expedition at sea, Cameron told ONE News he had bought a block of land near Featherston.
    Cameron said moving Downunder had been his long cherished dream after he fell in love with the countryside and people during time here in 1994.
    The Oscar-winning director said he will be turning to the community for advice.

  • James Cameron is 3rd to go sea bottom

    James Cameron is 3rd to go sea bottom

    MUMBAI: With his visit to the floor of the Mariana Trench‘s Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on Earth, James Cameron has joined the tiny club of explorers who have taken a submersible to such depths.

    Talking of his travel, Cameron said that hr had to cut short his record solo descent due to a hydraulic fuel leak in his Deepsea Challenger sub that was later plucked from the Pacific about 300 miles southwest of Guam.

    “I see this as the beginning … of opening up this frontier to science and really understanding these deep places,” Cameron has been quoted to have said. The filmmaker is a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence.

    Cameron‘s trip to the murky floor of the Mariana Trench was as deep as any human has gone since retired U.S. Navy Capt. Don Walsh and the late Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard dropped down a watery elevator to the bottom of Challenger Deep in the submersible Trieste in 1960.

    While Walsh and Piccard had gone down 35,797 feet, Cameron‘s Deepsea Challenger nearly matched by going down 35,756 feet.

    In recent years, there have been a pair of descents to similar depths made by remotely operated, robotic submersibles.

  • Cameron to go down 11km in the Pacific

    Cameron to go down 11km in the Pacific

    MUMBAI: James Cameron is soon to dive to the deepest place on Earth in a one-man submarine. His vessel, named the Deepsea Challenger, will carry him 11km down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific.
    The director will spend his nine-hour dive in a thick, metal sphere with an internal diameter of just 109cm (43in) where he will be unable to stretch his arms or legs. The rest of the sub is made from specially designed syntactic foam, similar to the material from which a surf board is made. It counterbalances the weight of the pilot‘s compartment, which will have to protect Cameron from 1,000 atmospheres of pressure.
    When Cameron attempts the Mariana dive, a science team headed up by Doug Bartlett from the Scripps Institute will be dropping a lander fitted with 3D cameras and baited to attract any passing life.
    Don Walsh, who made the first and the only manned mission to the Mariana Trench with Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard in 1960, has joined the team. Once they can get a few days of good weather, the team hopes to first make an unmanned 11km dive with the sub to check that it works properly and then send Cameron down.
    Cameron and his team had earlier performed a similar feat; taking a successful 8,200m test-dive in Papua New Guinea.