The 1st Kolikata Independent Film Festival, a festival of Independent Short Films, Documentaries and Feature Films, will be held from September 11-13, 2013 at Derozio Hall, Presidency University, College Street, Kolkata.
Detailed Schedule of the festival:
Day I
11:30am: Inauguration
12:00pm: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa by Sankar Karmakar (Fiction, 45 mins)
1:00pm: Plus by Joydip Dam (Fiction, 10 mins)
1:25pm: Chura Liya by Saurav Chattopadhyay (Fiction, 24 mins)
Break, 10 mins.
2:15pm: Students’ Films (4 short films by the students of Presidency University)
Break, 5 mins.
4:00pm: Replica by Sriparna Dey (Fiction, 20 mins)
4:35pm: Memories of a Dead Township by Anamitra Roy (Fiction, 20 mins)
5:10pm: Discussion- Exploring the language of Independent Film.
Panelists:
Moinak Biswas (Hod of Film Studies, Jadavpur University),
Shyamal Karmakar (Hod of Editing, Srfti),
Amitava Chakraborty (Filmmaker, known for Kaal Abhirati, Cosmic Sex etc.)
& Sankar Karmakar (Filmmaker, known for documentaries like Anya Andhar & Poramatir Mukh)
Break,...
Detailed Schedule of the festival:
Day I
11:30am: Inauguration
12:00pm: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa by Sankar Karmakar (Fiction, 45 mins)
1:00pm: Plus by Joydip Dam (Fiction, 10 mins)
1:25pm: Chura Liya by Saurav Chattopadhyay (Fiction, 24 mins)
Break, 10 mins.
2:15pm: Students’ Films (4 short films by the students of Presidency University)
Break, 5 mins.
4:00pm: Replica by Sriparna Dey (Fiction, 20 mins)
4:35pm: Memories of a Dead Township by Anamitra Roy (Fiction, 20 mins)
5:10pm: Discussion- Exploring the language of Independent Film.
Panelists:
Moinak Biswas (Hod of Film Studies, Jadavpur University),
Shyamal Karmakar (Hod of Editing, Srfti),
Amitava Chakraborty (Filmmaker, known for Kaal Abhirati, Cosmic Sex etc.)
& Sankar Karmakar (Filmmaker, known for documentaries like Anya Andhar & Poramatir Mukh)
Break,...
- 9/9/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
While funding and distribution in India still remain a herculean challenge, 2012 seems to have slightly bettered the prospects for Indian documentaries. At par with their fiction film cousins, they not only made waves at international film festivals but a few of them also achieved limited release in domestic theatres. DearCinema lists the top ten favourite documentaries of the year (based on festival participation, awards and reviews):
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
- 12/27/2012
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Fire in Babylon
Three documentaries are slated for a release under Director’s Rare banner by PVR cinemas. The documentaries are:
Fire In Babylon to be released on 21st September, 2012
Bom / One Day Ahead Of Democracy to be released on 9th November, 2012
Celluloid Man to be released in December
PVR Cinemas releases independent feature films under Director’s Rare brand. This is the first time documentary features are being released under the banner. Shiladitya Bora, Head of PVR Director’s Rare says that it’s going to be made into a regular initiative in the months to come, “We at PVR Cinemas believe that there is a space for all kinds of Cinema. We have already pushed the envelope by giving mainstream exhibition to indie content. Now we want to take a step forward and treat our audiences with some exceptional documentaries which deserve to be seen. In the coming...
Three documentaries are slated for a release under Director’s Rare banner by PVR cinemas. The documentaries are:
Fire In Babylon to be released on 21st September, 2012
Bom / One Day Ahead Of Democracy to be released on 9th November, 2012
Celluloid Man to be released in December
PVR Cinemas releases independent feature films under Director’s Rare brand. This is the first time documentary features are being released under the banner. Shiladitya Bora, Head of PVR Director’s Rare says that it’s going to be made into a regular initiative in the months to come, “We at PVR Cinemas believe that there is a space for all kinds of Cinema. We have already pushed the envelope by giving mainstream exhibition to indie content. Now we want to take a step forward and treat our audiences with some exceptional documentaries which deserve to be seen. In the coming...
- 9/15/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival will be held from 31 August – 2 September, 2012 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The ninth edition of the festival will screen 18 documentary films, 13 of them by professionals and 5 by students.
Mumbai’s night rat killers, life of primitive tribes, children of sex workers, seaweed collectors are some of the topics covered in these films. All Rise For Your Honour by Sumit Khanna, Bicycle Journey – A Story Unbelievable by Ashijit Ganguli, Breaking the Silence by Ishani K Dutta and Dilli by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are some of the films in the line-up.
The festival will also host discussions with acclaimed film makers like Supriyo Sen, Amlan Datta, Nandan Saxena and Anasuya Vaidya. Director, producer and screenwriter Subhash Ghai will give away the awards to the winners.
Entry is free on a first-come-first served basis. See here for the schedule of the festival.
Mumbai’s night rat killers, life of primitive tribes, children of sex workers, seaweed collectors are some of the topics covered in these films. All Rise For Your Honour by Sumit Khanna, Bicycle Journey – A Story Unbelievable by Ashijit Ganguli, Breaking the Silence by Ishani K Dutta and Dilli by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are some of the films in the line-up.
The festival will also host discussions with acclaimed film makers like Supriyo Sen, Amlan Datta, Nandan Saxena and Anasuya Vaidya. Director, producer and screenwriter Subhash Ghai will give away the awards to the winners.
Entry is free on a first-come-first served basis. See here for the schedule of the festival.
- 8/31/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Deool, Byari, Aaranyakandam, and the other winners of the 2011 National Film Awards have been announced. The 59th Annual National Film Awards, administered by the India’s Directorate of Film Festivals, is “the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administrated by the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973. Every year, a national panel appointed by the government selects the winning entry, and the award ceremony is held in New Delhi, where the President of India gives away the awards.
This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where the award-winning films are screened for the public. Declared for films produced in the previous year across the country, they hold the distinction of awarding merit to the best of Indian cinema overall, as well as presenting awards for the best films in each region and language of the country. Due to the...
This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where the award-winning films are screened for the public. Declared for films produced in the previous year across the country, they hold the distinction of awarding merit to the best of Indian cinema overall, as well as presenting awards for the best films in each region and language of the country. Due to the...
- 3/8/2012
- by R.W.
- Film-Book
Photo Courtesy: Supradip Saha
It has been a couple of days since I returned from my pilgrimage-like trip to the 9th Bring Your Own Film Festival at Puri, Odisha. Sea and cinema makes a deadly potion, whose hangover ensures that for the rest of my life, I’ll be in Puri every second last week of February. Add to that a bunch of crazy, carefree people who are singing, laughing and hooting away to glory for no apparent reason, for five days at a stretch, in a world that can’t stop counting fingers. Good food, cheap alcohol, legal grass and a free beach on which musicians, poets, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, dancers let go of all that is tangible and release their medium of expression. Puri turns paradise indeed, as my imageries of the Beat Generation come alive.
As wild as it sounds, the 9th Byoff was inaugurated by the...
It has been a couple of days since I returned from my pilgrimage-like trip to the 9th Bring Your Own Film Festival at Puri, Odisha. Sea and cinema makes a deadly potion, whose hangover ensures that for the rest of my life, I’ll be in Puri every second last week of February. Add to that a bunch of crazy, carefree people who are singing, laughing and hooting away to glory for no apparent reason, for five days at a stretch, in a world that can’t stop counting fingers. Good food, cheap alcohol, legal grass and a free beach on which musicians, poets, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, dancers let go of all that is tangible and release their medium of expression. Puri turns paradise indeed, as my imageries of the Beat Generation come alive.
As wild as it sounds, the 9th Byoff was inaugurated by the...
- 2/28/2012
- by Twish Mukherjee
- DearCinema.com
The ongoing 24th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is screening three documentaries from India in its non-competetive section: Reflecting Images-Panorama.
Bom (India / Japan) by Amlan Datta is about the filmmaker’s visits to his adoptive family in Malana, a remote mountain village near the border with Tibet, and his discoveries.
The Rat Race by Miriam Chandy Menacherry is a documentary about the night rat killers who take to the streets every night in Mumbai.
Red Fairy n the Holy Ghost by Balaka Ghosh is a documentary about an Indian woman’s struggle for women who get accused of witchcraft.
The festival is being held from November 16-27, 2011.
Bom (India / Japan) by Amlan Datta is about the filmmaker’s visits to his adoptive family in Malana, a remote mountain village near the border with Tibet, and his discoveries.
The Rat Race by Miriam Chandy Menacherry is a documentary about the night rat killers who take to the streets every night in Mumbai.
Red Fairy n the Holy Ghost by Balaka Ghosh is a documentary about an Indian woman’s struggle for women who get accused of witchcraft.
The festival is being held from November 16-27, 2011.
- 11/18/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
“In these times of supersaturated information, most of which are designed to simply make money, it is important to use devices that can shake the audience up, and counter their collective ennui.”
Filmmaker Kaushik Mukherjee, who goes by the moniker Q, hardly needs an introduction. His bold and experimental film Gandu has grabbed eyeballs all over the world. Recently, as Gandu was presented at the Transilvania Film Festival in Romania, Q won the Best New Director award for this film at the 37th Seattle International Film Festival. Here Q gets candid about the film and his vision of filmmaking…
Tell us about your background and your introduction to filmmaking.
I wasn’t really interested in cinema. Being in Calcutta, I was exposed to classic cinema. It never crossed my mind that I could be a filmmaker. I was more interested in music, writing and design, which somehow lead me to...
Filmmaker Kaushik Mukherjee, who goes by the moniker Q, hardly needs an introduction. His bold and experimental film Gandu has grabbed eyeballs all over the world. Recently, as Gandu was presented at the Transilvania Film Festival in Romania, Q won the Best New Director award for this film at the 37th Seattle International Film Festival. Here Q gets candid about the film and his vision of filmmaking…
Tell us about your background and your introduction to filmmaking.
I wasn’t really interested in cinema. Being in Calcutta, I was exposed to classic cinema. It never crossed my mind that I could be a filmmaker. I was more interested in music, writing and design, which somehow lead me to...
- 6/20/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
- The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program have infused more than half a million dollars in grant money to 16 film projects and in the same measure, this list of depressing worldly film subjects also gives us a peak at some of the docu selections we'll be seeing in the upcoming editions of the film festival. Projects In Development Toma Kudrna's All That Glitters (Kyrgyzstan/Czech Republic)In a remote village in Kyrgyzstan, the discovery of gold by an international mining company offers benefits and threats to the community and the environment. Nic Dunlop's Burma Soldier (Burma/Thailand/Us)Myo Myint's dramatic transformation from a soldier of Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist tells the story of modern Burma today. Maria Teresa Rodriguez' ¿Donde Estan? The Disappeared Children Of El Salvador (Us/El Salvador)Margarita Zamora, an investigator who survived the civil war in El Salvador, tracks down disappeared children
- 7/12/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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