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  • ‘The Good Road’ director will mentor students for digital film making

    ‘The Good Road’ director will mentor students for digital film making

    MUMBAI: Gyan Correa, director of much acclaimed film The Good Road that was an official entry to represent India for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, has joined hands with Frameboxx, an animation and visual effect training studio in Mumbai for mentoring students for their Digital Film Making classes.

     

    Gyan Correa who also won the national Award for Best Gujarati film last year for his directorial debut, has directed over 500 TV commercials and documentaries. His work is renowned in the worlds of advertising, NGOs and art, including some of India’s leading corporates, the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, UNICEF and the UGC etc.

     

    Gyan says: “Film making is a skill born of that right blend of theory and practice. It’s exciting that Frameboxx has given me a chance to develop a platform for the next generation of film makers. The Boxxoffice way is to have students far spend more time in the field making films, rather than in classroom lecture. That’s exciting and compelling”.

    Students at Frameboxx will get this opportunity to not only interact and learn from him but few will also get to gain practical experience by assisting him in various projects since Gyan is actively involved with Advertising, Film Direction and Production.

    The duration of the course would be of twelve months and the first batch will commence in March this year.

    Frameboxx chief creative officer Kireet Khurana and creator/director of Toonpur Ka Superrhero says: “Under the mentorship of award-winning advertising and feature film-maker – GYAN CORREA, Box-office promises to be one of India’s best Digital Film making courses. Frameboxx is extremely pleased and honored to have an accomplished film auteur like GYAN on its board.”

    Frameboxx also has people like Kireet Khurana associated with them. Kireet, son of Animation Pioneer Bhimsain (creator of Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya), has directed film Toonpur Ka Superhero with Ajay Devgn and Kajol apart from directing many ad films and TV series. 

  • India’s The Good Road out of the Oscar race

    India’s The Good Road out of the Oscar race

    MUMBAI: Gyan Correa’s much publicised The Good Road is out of the race for the Foreign Language Oscars. Nine features will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 86th Academy Awards. Seventy-six films had originally been considered in the category.

     

    Even earlier, The Good Road, Correa’s directorial debut that intertwines three stories in the hostile and remote Kutch in Gujarat, had a bumpy ride – when it invited the wrath of The Lunch Box team, which felt that Correa’s work stood little chance at the Oscars.

     

    The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix van Groeningen, director; Bosnia and Herzegovina, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Danis Tanovic, director; Cambodia, The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh, director; Denmark, The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg, director; Germany, Two Lives, Georg Maas, director; Hong Kong, The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai, director; Hungary, The Notebook, Janos Szasz, director; Italy, The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, director; Palestine, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad, director.

     

    Foreign Language Film nominations for 2013 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 December 16. 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 five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles.  They will spend 10 January to 12 January viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.

     

    The 86th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on16 January, 2014, Thursday in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

  • ‘The Good Road’ goes to Harvard University

    ‘The Good Road’ goes to Harvard University

    MUMBAI: Gujarati film The Good Road – India’s official submission for the foreign language film category at the 86th Academy Awards – will be screened at Harvard University’s Cambridge campus in Massachusetts, US.

     

    A production by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), the film will be showcased on 9 December at Harvard University’s South Asia Institute (SAI). The film’s director, Gyan Correa, will interact with the audience at the screening.

     

    It will be an academic event held for the Harvard faculty, students and affiliates who have an avid interest in films, said a statement from NFDC.

     

    The event will begin with Vikram Khanna, a professor at the Harvard Law School currently teaching a course on the Indian entertainment industry, sharing a quick introduction on the film followed by the screening. The event will conclude with an interactive question-and-answer session between Correa and the audience.

  • ‘The Good Road’ goes to Harvard University

    ‘The Good Road’ goes to Harvard University

    MUMBAI: Gujarati film The Good Road – India’s official submission for the foreign language film category at the 86th Academy Awards – will be screened at Harvard University’s Cambridge campus in Massachusetts, US.

    A production by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), the film will be showcased on 9 December at Harvard University’s South Asia Institute (SAI). The film’s director, Gyan Correa, will interact with the audience at the screening.

    It will be an academic event held for the Harvard faculty, students and affiliates who have an avid interest in films, said a statement from NFDC.

    The event will begin with Vikram Khanna, a professor at the Harvard Law School currently teaching a course on the Indian entertainment industry, sharing a quick introduction on the film followed by the screening. The event will conclude with an interactive question-and-answer session between Correa and the audience.

  • Gujarati film ‘The Good Road’ is Indian nomination for Oscars

    Gujarati film ‘The Good Road’ is Indian nomination for Oscars

    New Delhi: Debut feature filmmaker Gyan Correa’s Gujarati film ‘The Good Road’ will represent India at the Oscars 2013 in the Foreign Language Film category.

    The film was picked by a 16-member committee headed by eminent Bengali filmmaker Goutam Ghose appointed by the Film Federation of India.

    Ritesh Batra’s Irrfan Khan starrer ‘The Lunchbox’, which has been a front runner for India’s entry to the Oscars, was the closest contender.

    However, ‘The Good Road’ was unanimously picked by the committee which comprised of eminent film professions representing different regions and languages from all over the country.

    Others in the running included ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, ‘Ship of Theseus’, ‘English Vinglish’ and ‘Shabdo’.

    ‘The Good Road’ had bagged the National Award for Best Feature Film (Gujarati) earlier this year.

    The National Film Development Corporation-produced film stars Sonali Kulkarni, Ajay Gehi, Keval Katrodia, Shamji Dhana Kerasia, Priyank Upadhyay, and Poonam Kesarsingh Rajput.

    Rajat Dholakia who has composed music for ‘Delhi 6’ and ‘Mirch Masala’ among others gave the music for this film.

    Based in Kachchh, Gujarat, the film revolves around a journey of three sets of people who travel on a highway, traveling across Banni, which borders the Rann. They are all on a journey to achieve their respective pursuits but over the next 24 hours, they discover something altogether different, something new and unexpected about their lives.