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  • “A Taj Mahal Love Story” (A film by Madhureeta Anand) announced officially during Justin Trudeau’s visit

    “A Taj Mahal Love Story” (A film by Madhureeta Anand) announced officially during Justin Trudeau’s visit

    MUMBAI: Justin Trudeau announces the first official Indo-Canadian co production titled “A Taj Mahal Love Story”.  The official Canadian announcement was quoted  saying  “True Space Films (Toronto) and Ekaa Films (Delhi) have signed an agreement to co-produce “A Taj Mahal Love Story,” a full-length feature film with a strong woman empowerment narrative. The film will be shot in India with editing and post-production completed in Toronto”.

    While Ekaa Films Pvt Ltd is Director Writer Madhureeta Anand’s company who has written and directed “A Taj Mahal Love Story”, True Space Films belongs to  Anu Vittal , a Canada based producer.

     Madhureeta Anand’s  ‘Kajarya’ received several international accolades before its release in India in December 2015 and subsequently found a home on Netflix.

     “ With the casting process currently going on ‘A Taj Mahal Love Story’ will be shot in Agra in September this year .  The script has been described as path breaking because it has a strong woman centric theme with a unique screenplay that is quirky and strong at the same time.   A lot of the film’s crew will be Canadian and all postproduction will take place there as well.  However the story, actors and locations will be Indian – making this a true Indo-Canadian collaboration.

     Madhureeta Anand is an extremely prolific film writer and director.  She has directed two feature films, written five feature films, directed many documentary films and series, spanning an array of genres. Many of her films have won national and international awards.

      Madhureeta says  “I spent three years researching and writing this script. And so this is a film close to my heart.  Having the Prime Minister of Canada announce it  as a part of the Canadian and Indian government’s joint initiatives is a rare privilege and naturally I’m thrilled. The collaboration with Canada will make this a truly international film and I look forward to crafting it as such.  In today’s world with shrinking box office numbers worldwide, it is imperative that we expand the scope of our films and their audiences. Why limit our films to just Indian audiences? Why not go to people everywhere. But this can only happen if we collaborate internationally and tell our stories to the world” 

    Co producer Anu Vital quotes  “Creative industries are very important to Canadians as culture connectors with the rest of the world . The total contribution of the cultural  Industries is $54.6 Billlion to the GDP of Canada per annum. With this movie we want to tell the story of love with a focus on women empowerment, which is currently a very strong initiative for the Canadian Government as stated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his women’s round table session in Mumbai on Feb 20th, 2018. We believe that the movie will not just tell a story that connects humanity across the world but will also lead to increasing social and cultural capital of both Canada and India.”

  • ‘Kajarya’ makes it to Montreal World Film Festival

    ‘Kajarya’ makes it to Montreal World Film Festival

    MUMBAI: Independent film ‘Kajarya’, has been selected for the prestigious Montreal Film Festival 2014.

     

    Directed by Madhureeta Anand, the film will be showcased in the ‘Focus on World Cinema’ section at the Montreal World Film Festival 2014, 21 August – 1 September.

     

    An assured second feature from the director, the film is an original voice about female foeticide in India. It is a story of a rookie journalist in Delhi who exposes a woman, believed to embody Goddess Kali, who ritually kills female newborns in a village nearby. The story questions notions of women’s emancipation and feminism as it weaves through an interplay of drama and events and explores how India continues to live in many centuries at the same time.

     

    ‘Kajarya’ stars Meenu Hooda, Ridhima Sud and Kuldeep Ruhil. The film had its world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival. It has found critical appreciation internationally since and has been selected by the Forbes India magazine as the #1 in the Top 5 Films to See in 2014.

     

    The movie is produced by Starfire Movies and co-produced by Ekaa Films and Overdose Joint.

     

    Starfire’s next co-production is ‘Ludo’, with Idyabooster and Overdose Joint.  ‘Ludo’ is a fantasy-thriller horror film by the maverick directors duo Q and Nikon, and is currently in post production.

  • UFO announces Digital Film Fest

    UFO announces Digital Film Fest

    NEW DELHI: New and amateur filmmakers will get an opportunity to showcase their talent in the upcoming digital film festival — UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival – which is introducing a contest to promote new talent and fresh ideas in the industry.


    The festival will be organised from 23 February to 1 March at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi.


    Christened as ‘Film in 6 Days‘, the competition will present a challenge to young filmmakers to direct a short film in a brief span of six days. To facilitate this process and help the participants bring their imagination into life, the organisers will provide all the logistical support to them.


    ‘Film in six days‘ competition will select six to 10 teams (consisting of director, director of production, and editor) on the basis of their past experience and interviews. The selected candidates will be given a topic by the festival organisers to make a film within six days. These films then will be reviewed by a jury comprising senior people from film fraternity who will select winner will be rewarded with prize money/editing software/equipment.


    Festival Director and Ekaa Films founder Madhureeta Anand said, “The six-day competition is an integral and important part of the UFO 0110 International digital Film Festival. It is our way of seeing that budding filmmakers get a chance to make films that on the one hand can be a showcase of their work and on the other hand can be learning experience. For us at the film festival it‘s our way of planting seeds. We hope that these very filmmakers will, in the future, send in films to the festival and add to the viewing experience and quality of the festival.”


    Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra, Jury member of the last IDFF feels “Digital format of filmmaking is an amazing format that gives you the freedom to shoot things, make a movie, put forth your viewpoint about an issue/agenda etc while overcoming the constraints of inadequate funding or networking etc. It is a wonderful medium for independent voices and certainly more and more people are now open to the idea of digital film making.”


    “As a jury member, I have very fond memories of the festival. Even the quality of films churned out by amateur filmmakers/directors such as students or those coming from non- film industry background is very exciting. The technique used by one filmmaker/story teller inadvertently varies with that used by another and this is the surprising element that one comes across fests such as IDFF. Festival like IDFF should be promoted so that maximum talent can be discovered.”


    The 0110 International Digital Film Festival is an annual event showcasing cutting edge digital films from around the world. The mission is to take the digital art and film movement forward and provide fresh and innovative content to the viewers and create a space for new styles of form and content that can become the resource pool for filmmakers in South Asia and the rest of the world. It is the only film festival in India that travels to 11 cities.