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  • 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.

  • Rome Fest director Mueller to deliver Mani Kaul memorial lecture

    Rome Fest director Mueller to deliver Mani Kaul memorial lecture

    MUMBAI: Rome Festival director Marco Mueller will deliver the inaugural Mani Kaul Memorial Lecture at the 12th Osian‘s-Cinefan Film Festival. Mueller has earlier served as the Artistic Director of Venice International Film Festival for eight years.

    Kaul had been the Creative Director at Osian‘s since 2006 and was the director general of the 11th Osian‘s Cinefan Film Festival.

    Cinefan has instituted the Manu Kaul Memorial lecture from this year‘s edition.

    The festival will take place from 27 July to 5 August at Siri Fort Complex, Osianama and Blue Frog at the Qila Complex, New Delhi.

  • Rescheduling of Rome Fest’s dates pushed back

    Rescheduling of Rome Fest’s dates pushed back

    MUMBAI: After problems with the plan arose in recent days, plans to delay the International Rome Film Festival to late November may be put on the back burner till next year.

    The plan to change Rome’s dates so that the festival could serve as a mid-way point between the end of the Toronto Film Festival in September and February’s Berlin Film Festival was the idea of former Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Mueller, who is expected to take up position as Rome fest’s new artistic director soon.

    But the plan has run into road blocks including scheduling conflicts with the Parco della Musica venue that is the centerpiece of the festival and a plea from officials at the Turin Film Festival, where its 30th edition is set to take place from 25 November to 3 December.

    Italian newspapers reported that Turin mayor Piero Fassino asked Rome counterpart Gianni Alemanno to postpone the change in dates for the Rome festival until next year to which the latter agreed.