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  • Percol brews a fresh chapter in India with CCL’s premium coffee play

    Percol brews a fresh chapter in India with CCL’s premium coffee play

    MUMBAI: Espresso yourself, India your coffee upgrade has just arrived. In a strategic sip forward, CCL Products (India) Ltd. has launched Percol, the iconic British coffee brand, in the Indian market. Known for its ethical sourcing, premium blends, and sustainability-first approach, Percol’s India debut follows its acquisition by CCL in 2023.

    Founded in 1987 by Brian Chapman, Percol was the UK’s first coffee brand to bag Fairtrade certification, long before “conscious consumerism” became a buzzword. Ironically, CCL had been quietly brewing Percol’s instant coffee blends for the UK market for years. So when the brand went up for sale, CCL didn’t just see a business opportunity, it recognised a chance to bring home a flavourful legacy it helped craft.

    Now officially under CCL’s belt, Percol is stepping onto Indian shelves with three sophisticated freeze-dried instant blends Intenzo, Da Essenza, and Espresso Noir. Crafted with beans sourced from Colombia, Vietnam, and other global hotspots, each 100g jar promises a deep, complex cup for a discerning audience used to swirling, sipping, and savouring.

    “The Indian coffee landscape is evolving rapidly,” said CCL Products (India) Ltd CEO Praveen Jaipuriar. “Percol represents not just premium coffee, but a philosophy that resonates with today’s nuanced consumer, who is particular about the sophistication, depth and value of the products they consume.”

    That philosophy also reflects in the packaging think reusable glass jars, metal caps, and matte-finished boxes with embossing and spot-UV flourishes. It’s where aesthetic meets ethic: no plastic, no compromise.

    Targeted first at Tier-1 cities in North and West India, Percol’s blends are now available on major e-commerce platforms and select supermarkets. And while it’s starting as instant coffee, this is anything but a quick fix, it’s a carefully brewed invitation to elevate the at-home coffee ritual.

    With Percol, CCL isn’t just expanding its portfolio, it’s stirring up India’s premium coffee scene, one conscious cup at a time.

  • ‘This World: Colombia with Simon Reeve’ on BBC World News

    ‘This World: Colombia with Simon Reeve’ on BBC World News

    MUMBAI: Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to one of the most spectacular countries in the world – Colombia. For 50 years, Colombia has been in the grip of a brutal civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced seven million. But in late 2016, a peace deal was signed promising to end the conflict and finally bring peace to the country.

    In this documentary for the award-winning This World strand, Simon explores Colombia at a pivotal point in its history. He travels into the jungle and comes face to face with the guerrilla army FARC, which has now laid down arms. In the Pacific coast city of Buenaventura, Simon finds out more about the fearsome right-wing paramilitary gangs who now dominate the cocaine trade. As the FARC abandon the countryside, there is a fear that these groups will only grow in power. Travelling in the countryside, Simon meets the coca farmers who are demanding government support to stop growing coca and stop the flow of money to criminal gangs. With land ownership, poverty, and drugs at the heart of Colombia’s problems, it is in the countryside that the country’s precarious future will be decided.

    ‘This World: Colombia with Simon Reeve’ will go on-air on Saturday 24th February at 2.40pm followed by a repeat telecast on Sunday 25th February at 8.40pm.

  • India’s Marathi film ‘Court’ out of Oscar race

    India’s Marathi film ‘Court’ out of Oscar race

    MUMBAI: The National Award winning Marathi film Court, which was India’s official entry to the Oscars, is out of the Best Foreign-Language Film category for the upcoming 88th Academy Awards.

     

    Nine features will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 88th Academy Awards. A total of 80 films had originally been considered in the category.

     

    The nine films that have made the cut for the Best Foreign-Language Film category are as follows:Belgium’s The Brand New Testament directed by Jaco Van Dormael; Colombia’s Embrace of the Serpent directed by Ciro Guerra; Denmark’s A War directed by Tobias Lindholm; Finland’s The Fencer directed by Klaus Härö; France’s Mustang directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven; Germany’sLabyrinth of Lies directed by Giulio Ricciarelli; Hungary’s Son of Saul directed by László Nemes; Ireland’s Viva directed by Paddy Breathnach and Jordan’s Theeb directed by Naji Abu Nowar.

     

    Foreign Language Film nominations for 2015 are being determined in two phases.

     

    The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based Academy members, screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and 14 December. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.

     

    The shortlist will be winnowed down to the category’s five nominees by specially invited committees in New York, Los Angeles and London.  They will spend 8 January through 10 January, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.

     

    The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on 14 January, 2016 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

  • Fourteen films make it to co-production Forum of San Sebastian

    Fourteen films make it to co-production Forum of San Sebastian

    NEW DELHI: Fourteen projects from a total of 181 projects submitted from 22 countries are taking part in the third Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum as part of the 67th San Sebastian International Film Festival.

     

    The Forum will be held from 22 to 24 September. The selected films are largely from Latin American countries  including Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela.

     

    During the Forum, those responsible for the projects will work to a busy meeting agenda with industry professionals from across the world. The aim by attending the Forum is to make contact with potential co-producers, financial partners and sales agents in order to complete their funding and ensure their international production and distribution. 

     

    In addition, and as part of the festival’s collaboration with the Ibermedia Programme, a project selected in the workshop to develop film projects from Central America and the Caribbean will also participate in the Co-Production Forum.

     

    The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum is fostered by the Basque Government Department of Economic Development and Competitiveness and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism.

     

    As in previous editions, the final selection includes projects by directors and producers of recognised prestige alongside others by new directors and recently created production companies. Nine of the 17 projects presented in 2012 have been completed, while three of the 16 presented in 2013 have been filmed, and shooting is expected to start on another six in the coming months.

      
    For the second year running, the EGEDA Award for Best Project at the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum 2014 will be presented. The Award comes with a cash prize of €10,000 and is sponsored by EGEDA, the Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association.

     

    As a new feature this year, the Festival will also organise a Focus on Canada with Telefilm Canada. A delegation of 12 Canadian producers will come to San Sebastian to experience the Festival in person, make professional contacts and participate in the Co-production Forum and the other Industry Club activities.

     

  • JumpTV in deal with Joost

    JumpTV in deal with Joost

    MUMBAI: JumpTV, which broadcasts ethnic television over the Internet, has partnered with Joost a recently launched free-to-air Internet television service.

    JumpTV will make a portion of its library of video-on-demand television content available on a series of JumpTV-branded ethnic television vertical channels on the Joost platform.

     
    JumpTV currently broadcasts live over the Internet thousands of television programmes, news, music and sporting events from 270 channels from over 70 countries around the world on a subscription and advertising supported basis.

    The initial JumpTV offering on Joost will feature programming regularly gathered from JumpTV’s digitally rights compliant international television roster. The first JumpTV “channels” on Joost will feature Spanish-language series from Colombia, Chile and Peru, in addition to Arabic-language comedy, drama and news programs from some of the leading broadcasters in the Middle East.

     
    JumpTV will be adding new programming on a daily or weekly basis, and intends to launch several more channels on Joost in other languages, including but not limited to Romanian, Turkish, Russian and Bengali.

    JumpTV International president and CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman says, “We see Joost as a unique and important distribution /programming partner. Like us, the Joost team innately understands the power of viral, high-affinity long-tail content — for example, JumpTV’s ethnic TV programming. Given the track record of the Joost founders, we believe that the Joost platform could be as transformational for online television as their previous ventures have been.”

    Joost executive VP of content strategy and acquisition Yvette Alberdingkthijm said, “Content owners like JumpTV, with a diverse offering of channels that feed the global appetite for streamed online content, are a perfect match for Joost. Partnering with JumpTV will allow our viewers access to the best in global television programming in an Internet rights-compliant fashion.”

    JumpTV head of global distribution Mike John-Baptiste said, “Joost, like JumpTV has been securing programming from key licensors of television content, so we were pleased to see that they recognised our singular commitment and leadership in ethnic television.”

    “JumpTV is committed to providing our TV broadcaster content partners the broadest audience on the Internet as possible — whether through ISPs, mobile carriers or Internet portals.”

    The partnership between Joost and JumpTV involves sharing of advertising revenues on the JumpTV-branded channels.

  • CNN Worldwide appoints Seth Doane as New Delhi correspondent

    CNN Worldwide appoints Seth Doane as New Delhi correspondent

    MUMBAI: CNN Worldwide has appointed award-winning journalist Seth Doane to be the news organization’s New Delhi-based video correspondent. This was announced by senior VP- International newsgathering, Tony Maddox.

    Doane joins CNN from Channel One News where he won a 2004 George Foster Peabody Award for his reports from Darfur and the on-going humanitarian crisis, informs an official release.

    “Seth has shown the kind of commitment and endeavour we look for in our correspondents,” said Maddox. “In the past five years, he has reported around the world from challenging locations and he will be a real addition to the reporting ranks of CNN. He will be working in a great bureau in a country which is making news on many levels.”

    Doane is the sixth video correspondent appointed by CNN; he joins DNG-equipped correspondents strategically based in South Africa, Colombia, UK, Iraq and Russia.

    “CNN is known around the world for its international news coverage and its use of leading-edge technology that allows correspondents to offer context to news events immediately. It’s a privilege to join a network with such a strong journalistic reputation,” said Doane.