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  • Waheeda Rehman to be honoured with cinema Centenary Award at IFFI

    Waheeda Rehman to be honoured with cinema Centenary Award at IFFI

    MUMBAI: Veteran actress Waheeda Rehman will be honoured with the first cinema Centenary Award at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on 20 November, the opening day of the festival. The award has been introduced this year and the actress will be the first one to receive it.

     

    This news has been confirmed by Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari. He tweeted saying, “Congratulations to Waheeda Rehmanji for being conferred the inaugural Centenary Award for the Indian Film Personality of the year 2013.” Other than this, the actress has already bagged honours like the Padma Shri in 1972 and the Padma Bhushan in 2011.

     

    The 44th edition of IFFI would be held at Panjim Goa from 20 November, 2013 with Susan Sarandon as the chief guest.

  • NFDC Film Bazaar 2013 to kick start on 20 November in Goa

    NFDC Film Bazaar 2013 to kick start on 20 November in Goa

    MUMBAI: Film Bazaar- South Asia’s global film market, National Film Development Corporation’s (NFDC) promotional arm, is set to kick start from 20 – 24 November and will be in its seventh edition this year. The film market, like every year, will be held at Marriott Resort, Goa, alongside International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

     

    The market this year will have an eclectic mix of influential people like Christian Jeune- Cannes Film Festival; Thierry Fremaux – Cannes Film Festival; Marco Mueller- Rome Film Festival; Derek Malcolm – British Film Critic and Historian; Chris Paton, Fortissimo; Jacobine Van Der Vloed- Cinemart (Rotterdam); Remi Burah- Arte France Cinema; Sergio Fant –Locarno International Film Festival; Charles Tesson – Semaine De La Critique; Frederic Boyer- Tribeca Film Festival; Anne Delseth- Director’s Fortnight Cannes Film Festival, to name a few.

     

    Film Bazaar this year will launch a new program ‘Producers’ Lab’, which aims at providing training and networking opportunities to upcoming producers from across the country and will also consist of workshop sessions, case studies and one-on-one meetings spread over three days. These sessions will be conducted by well known domestic and international film fraternity.

     

    The ‘Screenwriters’ Lab’, with its six independent screenwriters this year, conducted its first phase of mentored workshop at Toronto International Film Festival and will conclude with its second phase, like every year, at Film Bazaar. Co-production Market finalists comprises an interesting line-up from countries, namely Afghanistan, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Luthuania, and projects by Govind Nihalani’s A Holy Fire, Shyam Benegal’sRoads To Freedom, Umesh Kulkarni’s Highway, Anup Singh’sA Scorpion’s Song to name a few.

     

    The recently announced ‘Film Bazaar Recommends’ list of films includes Pakistan’s official submission for foreign language film at the 86th Academy Awards- Zinda Bhaag starring Naseeruddin Shah, Jai Ho– A docu-feature based on Indian music composer and singer A.R.Rahman and auteur filmmaker Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, amongst other.

  • IFFI to highlight north-east cinema for the first time

    IFFI to highlight north-east cinema for the first time

    MUMBAI: The 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Panaji, Goa will for the first time highlight cinema from the north eastern states of India. The opening ceremony for this section will include actors Seema Biswas and Adil Hussain.

     

    The festival has created a special north-east package named ‘Focus: North East’. The section will be inaugurated on 22 November and close on 27 November. A total of 23 films from the north east will be screened between these dates. This will include Ek Pal, as a special homage to its producer Hemendra Prasad Barooah.

     

    The opening movie of the section will be Khawnlung Run, the first-ever Mizo film to be screened in any international festival. Among the other films to be screened is Rupkonwar Jyotiprasad Aru Joymoti, which was directed by the late Bhupen Hazarika.

  • IFFI to pay tribute to Pran

    IFFI to pay tribute to Pran

    MUMBAI: The 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Goa from 20-30 November will pay tribute to the veteran actor Pran. The legendary Bollywood villain passed away in July this year. The festival will witness the screening of three of his most popular films – Jis Desh Main Ganga Behti Hai, Madhumati and Zanjeer.

     

    A true legend of Indian cinema, Pran defined the villain in Hindi cinema for over a decade and more in the 1960s and set the benchmark for the on-screen baddie, before carving out an equally glorious career as a character/supporting actor. As a film villain, such was the terror he infused in the hearts of film-goers that the apocryphal story goes that for over twenty years, when he ruled the world of cinema as a villain, no family in north India named a child ‘Pran’.

     

     Pran’s son Sunil Sikand and daughter Pinky Bhalla will be present for the screening. The film will be screened on the third and fourth day of the festival. Pran’s wife Shukla Sikand is also slated to attend the screening.

     

    IFFI director Shankar Mohan says, “As per the festival’s tradition, IFFI pays tribute to noted film personalities who passed away in the year preceding the festival. IFFI invites their family members, friends and well-wishers to attend the screenings of the artiste’s best works.”

     

    Last year, a special homage was paid to Yash Chopra at the festival.

  • 26 features and 16 non-features in Indian Panorama of 44th IFFI

    26 features and 16 non-features in Indian Panorama of 44th IFFI

    A total of 26 features and 16 non-features figure in the list of the Indian Panorama section of the next International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Panaji in Goa from 20 November.

     

    The Panorama films also form the basis for the government to make its selections when sending films for participation in film festivals overseas.

     

    The Jury for feature films, headed by renowned filmmaker and editor B Lenin, selected 25 films out of a total of 210 eligible entries.

     

    Hindi film Pan Singh Tomar (Director Tigmanshu Dhulia) which won the Best Feature Film award at the recent 60th National Film awards is the 26th film of Indian Panorama, by virtue of direct entry. The nine- member jury took 21 days to finalise the selections.

     

    The Non-Feature films jury chaired by well known director Raja Sen, picked 15 films out of 130 eligible entries. Kashmiri film Shepherds of Paradise (Director Raja Shabir Khan) which won the Best Non feature film award at the recent 60th National Film Awards is the 16th film of Indian Panorama by direct entry. The five member jury took nine days to finalise the selections.

     

    The juries chose Kanyaka Talkies (Malayalam, Director K R Manoj) and Rangabhoomi (Hindi, Director Kamla Swaroop) as the opening feature and non-feature films respectively for the Indian Panorama 2013 at the 44th IFFI.

     

    The features have six films in Malayalam, five in Hindi apart from another in Hindi and English, five in Bangla, three in Marathi, and one each in Mising, Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, and Konkani apart from one in Konkani and English.

     

    In the non features films category, the maximum number of films selected, five are in Hindi, three in Malayalam, three in English, two in Marathi, two in Kashmiri and one in Kudukh.

    The complete list of 26 Feature films that would be shown at the 44th International Film Festival of India 2013:
    Sr. NO.

        
    TITLE OF THE FILM
        

    LANGUAGE
        

    DIRECTOR
    1

        
    101 CHODYANGAL

        
    MALAYALAM

        
    SIDHARTHA SIVA
    2

        
    AJANA BATAS

        
    BENGALI

        
    ANJAN DAS
    3

        
    APUR PANCHALI
        

    BENGALI

        
    KAUSHIK GANGULI
    4

        
    ARTIST
        

    MALAYALAM

        
    SHAYAM PRASAD
    5
        

    ASTU

        
    MARATHI

        
    SUMITRA BHAVE/SUNIL SUKHTANKAR
    6

        
    BAGA BEACH

        
    KONKANI

        
    LAXMIKANT SHETGAONKAR
    7

       BHARATH STORES     KANNADA     P.SHESHADRI
    8

        
    CELLULOID

        
    MALAYALAM

        
    KAMAL
    9

        
    PHORING-DRAGONFLY
        

    BENGALI

        
    INDRANIL ROYCHOWHURY
    10

        
    FANDRY
        

    MARATHI

        
    NAGRAJ MANJULE
    11
        

    JAL
        

    HINDI
        

    GIRISH MALIK
    12
        

    KANYAKA TALKIES
        

    MALAYALAM
        

    K.R. MANOJ
    13

        
    KO:YAD

        
    MISING
        

    MANJU BORAH
    14

        
    KUNJANANTHANTE KADA
        

    MALAYALAM
        

    SALIM AHAMED
    15

        
    LISTEN AMAYA
        

    HINDI

        
    AVINASH KUMAR SINGH
    16

        
    MEGHE DHAKA TARA
        

    BENGALI

        
    KAMLESHWAR MUKHERJEE
    17
        

    SALA BUDHA
        

    ORIYA
        

    SABYASACHI MAHAPATRA
    18

        
    SATYANWESHI

        
    BENGALI

        
    RITUPARNO GHOSH
    19
        

    SHIP OF THESEUS
        

    ENGLISH/HINDI

        
        
    ANAND GANDHI
    20

        
    SHUTTER

        
    MALAYALAM

        
    JOY MATHEW
    21

        
    TAPAAL

        
    MARATHI

        
    LAXMAN UTEKAR
    22

        
    THE COFFIN MAKER

        
    ENGLISH/KONKANI

        
    VEENA BAKSHI
    23
        

    THANGAMEENGAL
        

    TAMIL
        

    RAM
    24

        
    BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG
        

    HINDI
        

    RAKESH OMPRAKASH MEHRA
    25
        

    OMG OH MY GOD
        

    HINDI

        
    UMESH SHUKLA
    26
        

    PAN SINGH TOMAR
        

    HINDI
        

    TIGMANSHU DHULIA

     

    The complete list of 16 Non-Feature films that would be screened at the 44th International Film Festival of India 2013:
    Sr. NO.

        
    TITLE OF THE FILM
        

    LANGUAGE
        

    DIRECTOR
    1
        

    23 WINTERS
        

    Kashmiri/Hindi
        

    Rajesh S. Jala
    2

        
    A DREAM CALLED AMERICA
        

    Hindi
        

    Anoop Sathyan
    3

        
    BEHIND THE MIST
        

    Malayalam
        

    Babu Kambrath
    4

        
    BY LANE 2
        

    English/Assamese
        

    Utpal Datta
    5
        

    KANCHE AUR POSTCARD
        

    Hindi
        

    Ridham Janve
    6

        
    LIGHTS ON A DOOR GOPALKRISHNAN
        

    Malayalam/English
        

    Prasanna Ramaswamy
    7

        
    MAKARA
        

    Marathi
        

    Prantik Narayan Basu
    8

        
    MANIPURI PONY
        

    English
        

    Aribam Syam Sharma
    9
        

    PHADA
        

    Kudukh (Region-Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh)
        

    Niranjan Kumar Kujur
    10

        
    RANGABHOOMI
        

    Hindi
        

    Kamal Swaroop
    11

        
    RESONANCE OF MOTHER’S MELODY
        

    English

        
    Dip Bhuyan
    12

        
    SAMA-MUSLIM MYSTIC MUSIC OF INDIA
        

    Hindi/English

        
    Shazia Khan
    13
        

    THE DONKEYFAIR
        

    Hindi/Gujarati
        

    Rakesh Shukla
    14
        

    V. BABASAHEB LIFE IN FULL OPEN
        

    Marathi/Hindi/English
        

    Avinash Deshpande
    15

        
    VISHAPARVAM
        

    Malayalam
        

    Vipin Vijay
    16

    SHEPHERDS OF PARADISE
        

    Kashmiri
        

    Raja Shabhir Khan

     

  • NFDCs Film Bazaar13 invites entries for its Industry Screenings program

    NFDCs Film Bazaar13 invites entries for its Industry Screenings program

    MUMBAI: Film Bazaar 2013, NFDC’s (National Film Development Corporation) promotional arm, has begun calling for entries for its Industry Screenings program. In its seventh edition this year, South Asia’s Global Film Market will be held from 20-24 November, 2013 alongside IFFI at Marriott Resort, Goa. Qube Cinema Network (Real Image Media Technologies), associated with Film Bazaar since 2011, will be the Digital partner for the screenings this year too.

     

    Introduced in 2010, Industry Screenings has become an important segment of Film Bazaar, where filmmakers are given an opportunity to showcase and pitch their films to a select audience of sales agents, distributors, producers, festival programmers and directors through the market period. With digital theatres arranged at the market venue, filmmakers can either reserve their film screenings to a selected audience of international distributors and sales agents or open it for all attending delegates.

     

    Last year, Industry Screenings, saw twenty-six films screened through four days of the market. To name a few, The Bright Day (Hindi- English) by Mohit Takalkar; Pune 52 (Marathi) by Nikhil Mahajan; The Good Road (Gujarati) by Gyan Correa; Touring Talkies (Marathi) by Gajendra Aahire; Masala (Marathi) by Sandesh Kulkarni; Love Tomato (Japanese – English – Philippine) by Hideo Nanbu; Tasher Desh (Bengali) by Q; Kshay (Hindi) by Karan Gaur, were films that were screened in 2012.

     

    The last date for submission of entries for Industry Screenings is 15 November 2013.

  • India, special guest country in 2013

    India, special guest country in 2013

    The Festival de Cannes has chosen Goa to announce it is to welcome a large delegation from the Indian film industry to Cannes to celebrate the one hundred years since the birth of cinema in India.

    The 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and Film Bazaar 2012, taking place in Goa until November 30th 2012 with the support of the Indian Ministry of Culture, present the ideal moment to announce that India, in 2013, is to be the third 'guest country' at Cannes, following Egypt in 2011 and Brazil this year.

    The Festival de Cannes is delighted to celebrate one of the most important countries in the world of cinema, a country with a prestigious history and tradition, one whose current day and creative impulses are a perennial example of vitality.

    Exact details of the celebrations will be announced at a later date.

    The Festival de Cannes will be taking place from May 15th to 26th, 2013.

  • Prasad Lolayekar takes over as CEO of Entertainment Society of Goa

    Prasad Lolayekar takes over as CEO of Entertainment Society of Goa

    NEW DELHI: Prasad V. Lolayekar, Director for Art and Culture in the Goa Government and Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister, has been given additional charge as Chief Executive Officer of the Entertainment Society of Goa.

    This follows the resignation of Manoj Srivastava, who was Deputy Director in the Directorate of Film Festivals of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. Earlier, Srivastava had been a producer with Doordarshan.

    During his tenure from June 2008 to 31 December 2012, Srivastava managed the International Film Festival of India on behalf of the Goa Government, since the ESG had been established for collaborating with the DFF after Panaji became a permanent venue for the IFFI in 2004.

    During his tenure, Srivastava introduced short films to IFFI by launching the Short Film Center in 2008, giving a fillip to short film movement.

    Ever since, the short film movement began in India. During his tenure, Goa bagged the Best Film Destination Award last year.

    From a state having five films shot each year, Goa last year boasted of shooting 79 films. Sources said the non-existent film business in Goa has shot up to an industry of Rs four billion.

    The attendance at the IFFI has risen from a paltry 3,700 in 2008 to over 13,000 in 2012.

    During Srivastava’s tenure, the first Digital Film Archive in Asia was set up in ESG, apart from Goa Cinephile, a famous Film Club for Goans and development of film culture in Goa.

  • Centre earnings from IFFI in Goa far short of expectations

    Centre earnings from IFFI in Goa far short of expectations

    NEW DELHI: The Central Government earned a sum of Rs 8.32 million through registration of delegates from 2004 (when the International Film Festival of India moved to Goa) to 2011, despite claims of increasing number of delegates year after year..

    The Central Government has spent a sum of Rs 153.948 million between 2009-10 and 2012-13 through the 11th Plan Scheme of Export Promotion through Festivals in India and overseas and the 12th Plan Scheme of Development, Communication and Dissemination of Film Content.

    In addition, the Tourism Ministry of the Central Government also contributed a sum of Rs 23.93 million towards IFFI 2011, according to Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources.

    The sources said that the funds allocated by it for the IFFI had risen from Rs 27 million in 2009-10 to Rs 60 million in 2012-13.

    However, the sources said that IFFI was not aimed at earning profit but at promoting Indian cinema and film culture.

    According to information furnished by the Entertainment Society of Goa, the Goa Government earned a total of Rs 84.258 million between 2004 and 29 November this year.

    The Goa Government spent a sum of Rs 29.0835 million between 2009 and 29 November 2012.

  • Mira Nair’s Reluctant Fundamentalist to open here in April

    Mira Nair’s Reluctant Fundamentalist to open here in April

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures is gearing up to release Mira Nair‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist in India screens in April next year.

    The film, based on Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid‘s eponymous novel, is the story of a young man chasing corporate success on Wall Street. Post the September 2011 tragedy in the US, he finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family‘s homeland.

    "It‘s an honour to be distributing The Reluctant Fundamentalist in India and we are thankful to Mira for trusting us with her film. We are very excited about the film‘s prospects in India and are keenly looking forward to its theatrical release," averred PVR Limited joint managing director Sanjeev Kumar Bijli in a statement.

    The Mira Nair film was recently awarded with the first Centenary Award and presented with a Silver Peacock, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh at the just concluded International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.