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  • 15th Mumbai Festival to host ‘Music Composers Lab’

    15th Mumbai Festival to host ‘Music Composers Lab’

    MUMBAI:The 15th Mumbai Film Festival is doing all that it can to woo its audiences. The festival will be a host to the launch of India’s first ‘music composer’s lab’ and will be held at the Yash Raj Film Studios located in Andheri, Mumbai.

    The lab will be presented by UK’s Bohemia Junction and Abbey Road Studios in association with PRS for music, UK and will take place from 21- 23 October.

    The lab will offer a unique opportunity to emerging Indian composers to interact with successful professionals in the field of music and to get a better understanding of what lies at the heart of a music score in the arena of moving image.

    Over two days, six composers will attend the Mumbai ‘composers lab’ to meet and interact with professional composers and a team of music and film industry specialists, from the UK and India, who will share their knowledge and expertise with them. The composers will also be advised about many aspects of music and the industry. The lab is an initiative to provide a hub for like-minded emerging film composers to network with each other, as well as with industry professionals, to learn new skills in the realms of film scoring.

    The two-day film scoring sessions will be followed with an interview and audience Q & A with award-winning British composer Ilan Eshkeri and a with the lab’s creative advisors on 23 October at 1pm at metro cinema.

    Special guest Ilan Eshkeri, best-known for his film scores of 47 Ronin, Coriolanus, Stardust, The Young Victoria and Kick-Ass, as well as his collaborations with Coldplay, Annie Lennox and Take That, will lead the creative team of composers that will be announced shortly.

    Applications for young composers to take part in the workshop open today (17 September) and will close on Monday, 7 October.

  • Jagran Film Festival to go to 16 cities, introduces section on ad films

    Jagran Film Festival to go to 16 cities, introduces section on ad films

    NEW DELHI: A total of sixteen cities will be covered by the 4th edition of the Jagran Film Festival, which will mark one hundred years of Indian cinema.

    In Delhi, the Festival will be held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in Delhi from 5 to 9 July, and then go to Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Agra, Meerut, Dehradun, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Indore, Bhopal and Mumbai.

    The centenary celebration includes screening of films like Kundan Shah‘s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Satyajit Ray‘s Apu Trilogy , Ramesh Sippy‘s Sholay , Bimal Roy‘s Madhumati and Do Bigha Zameen, Guru Dutt‘s Pyaasa, Mani Ratnam‘s Nayagan, Hrishikesh Mukherjee‘s Anand , Vijay Anand‘s Guide , K. Asif‘s Mughal-e-Azam among others.

    A special feature this year is Cinema for the Sellers – an Indian competition for advertising films.

    Other sections include World Panorama, Indian Showcase, Indian Premieres, and Jagran Shorts.

  • ‘Shortcut Romeo’ premiered at Cannes Film Festival

    ‘Shortcut Romeo’ premiered at Cannes Film Festival

    MUMBAI: Susi Ganesh‘s ‘Shortcut Romeo‘ was premiered at Cannes Film Festival in the non-competition section.

    ‘Shortcut Romeo‘, is a remake of Susi Ganesh‘s Tamil film, ‘Thiruttu Payale‘, which was a commercial success and a box office hit. ‘Thiruttu Payale‘, won Susi Ganesh the Tamil Nadu state’s Best Film award in 2006.

    “It is a great opportunity for me to showcase Bollywood cinema to an international audience when we are celebrating 100 Years of Indian Cinema across the world,” said Ganesh prior to leaving for Cannes.

    While the core of the story from ‘Thiruttu Payale‘ has been retained in the Bollywood version, Ganesh said that he has made some changes, like adding more nuances to the characters and given them more screen space in Hindi.

    ‘Shortcut Romeo‘ features Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ameesha Patel and Puja Gupta and is slated to release on 21 June.

  • Four docs to screen at Abu Dhabi fest

    Four docs to screen at Abu Dhabi fest

    Mumbai: The World Before Her, Sujata, I.D. and Mumbai‘s King (Mumbai Cha Raja) have been selected to be screened at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival that will be held from 11 to 20 October.

    The World Before Her by Nisha Pahuja will make its Gulf premier under the Documentary Competition section of the festival. The film would compete with noted documentaries like The House I Live In, Meanwhile in Mamelodi and Anton‘s Right Here.

    The foreign films from under this category will compete for Black Pearl Award, Special Jury Award and the Best New Director Award.

    Sujata by Shlok Sharma will make its Gulf Premier in the Short Film Competition. The Centrifuge Brain Project has already won ten awards so far.

    These films will compete for the best narrative award, best producer award and best documentary.

    I.D. by Kamal K.M. and Mumbai‘s King (Mumbai Cha Raja) by Manjeet Singh have been both pitched under the New Horizons – Middle East Premiere section. The foreign films in this category will contest for Black Pearl Award, Special Jury Award, Best Actor Award and Best Actress Award.

    The biggest contender for these awards is Beasts of the Southern Wild that has won 11 awards so far, including FIPRESCI Prize, Golden Camera, Prix Regards Jeune and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

  • Festival of Bangladeshi parallel films in Hyderabad from tomorrow

    Festival of Bangladeshi parallel films in Hyderabad from tomorrow

    MUMBAI: A film festival featuring five films by top directors of Bangladesh‘s parallel cinema, a first of its kind event, is being held in Hyderabad starting tomorrow.

    The three-day festival, being organised by Annapurna International School of Film and Media, will showcase Quiet Flows the River Chitra and Lalon by Tanvir Mokammel, Shadow of Life by Murad Parvez, Third Person Singular Number by Mostafa Sarwar Farooki and Ontorjatra by Tareque and Catherine Masud.

    The 1998 made film Quiet Flows the River Chitra, based on the plight of a Hindu family which refuses to migrate to India after the partition of Indian sub-continent in 1947, has won seven national awards in Bangladesh including those for best direction, best film and best script.

    Lalon is a film on the life and persona of famous 19th century mystic poet Lalon Fakir, steeped in Sufi tradition. It stars Bangladesh‘s leading actor Raisul Islam Assad in the title role.

    Ontorjatra, directed by Tareque and his American wife Catherine, narrates the tale of a divorced Bangladeshi woman who returns to her homeland along with her son to attend the funeral of her former husband.

    Third Person Singular Number is the story of inter-relationships among a convict serving a life sentence, a mentally liberated woman and a singer and asks a question: Can a woman, all on her own, lead a secured life in society?

    Finally, Parvez‘s Shadow of Life is the story of a pregnant destitute woman who delivers a girl and how she portrays life of her daughter.

  • Two Indian docus at Sheffield Intl Fest

    Two Indian docus at Sheffield Intl Fest

    MUMBAI: Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2012 will screen two Indian films this year.

    They are Anand Patwardhan‘s Jai Bhim Comrade and Dylan Mohan Gray‘s Fire in the Blood. The festival will be held from 13 to 17 June in Sheffield, UK.

    While Patwardhan‘s Jai Bhim Comrade is an epic eye-opener for those who are unfamiliar with India‘s severe caste discrimination, Fire in the Blood is an 84-minute documentary in English, Hindi, Manipuri and Xhosa. Fire in the Blood examines the battle that a number of inspiring players – including the government of India – waged to level the playing field for AIDS sufferers.

    Launched in 1994, it is one of the biggest international documentary festivals in the world.

  • Vail fest to honour Fred Schepisi

    Vail fest to honour Fred Schepisi

    MUMBAI: The Vail Film Festival will honour director Fred Schepisi with the Vail Film Festival‘s Vanguard Award. Krysten Ritter, who plays a lead role in the Starz series Gravity, has been chosen to receive the festival‘s Excellence in acting award.
     
    Schepisi, whose films include Six Degrees of Separation and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, most recently directed The Eye of the Storm. The film, which will be released in the United States by Sycamore Entertainment, will have its US premiere as the festival‘s opening night film.

    Ritter‘s film credits include She‘s Out of My League, Confessions of a Shopaholic, What Happens in Vegas, 27 Dresses and Vamps. She stars in Kat Coiro‘s L!fe Happens, which will screen as the festival‘s closing night film.

    The festival, which runs from 29 March to 1 April in Vail, Colorado, will present the honorees at its awards ceremony on the closing night.