Hundreds of pro filmmakers will join forces in New York City this summer to create six short films, as part of the fifth Women’s Weekend Film Challenge.
A grassroots initiative founded in 2017 by filmmakers Katrina Medoff and Tracy Sayre, Wwfc aims to address the lack of women and nonbinary people behind the camera and on screen through a variety of programs, including its signature film challenge, which places creatives on teams to write, shoot and edit a short in just one weekend. This year’s challenge set for August will be the first to take place in-person since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.
Film creatives of all kinds can apply for the challenge for free at this link, between June 1 and June 27. Participation is also free of charge. Organizers are expecting to select around 200 participants from a pool of more than 1,000 applications, with the help of guest judges including cinematographers Nancy Schreiber,...
A grassroots initiative founded in 2017 by filmmakers Katrina Medoff and Tracy Sayre, Wwfc aims to address the lack of women and nonbinary people behind the camera and on screen through a variety of programs, including its signature film challenge, which places creatives on teams to write, shoot and edit a short in just one weekend. This year’s challenge set for August will be the first to take place in-person since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.
Film creatives of all kinds can apply for the challenge for free at this link, between June 1 and June 27. Participation is also free of charge. Organizers are expecting to select around 200 participants from a pool of more than 1,000 applications, with the help of guest judges including cinematographers Nancy Schreiber,...
- 6/3/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (Cape) celebrates the all-female 2021 graduating class of creative executives of their fifth annual Cape Leaders Fellowship, a selective incubator to equip the next generation of creative executives with the skills and professional network to break into the VP ranks.
“A wide range of research from the Harvard Business Review to the Ascend Foundation confirms that Asian Americans are the least likely race/ethnic group to be promoted from individual contributor roles into management,” Cape Board Chair Sanjay Sharma said. “There is so much work to be done both in front of and especially behind the camera.”
Cape is the premier non-profit organization creating opportunities and driving change for Asian and Pacific Islander (Api) success in Hollywood.
The fellowship is modeled after the Cape New Writers Fellowship and fosters the next generation of creative executives with the skills and professional network to break into the VP ranks and beyond.
“A wide range of research from the Harvard Business Review to the Ascend Foundation confirms that Asian Americans are the least likely race/ethnic group to be promoted from individual contributor roles into management,” Cape Board Chair Sanjay Sharma said. “There is so much work to be done both in front of and especially behind the camera.”
Cape is the premier non-profit organization creating opportunities and driving change for Asian and Pacific Islander (Api) success in Hollywood.
The fellowship is modeled after the Cape New Writers Fellowship and fosters the next generation of creative executives with the skills and professional network to break into the VP ranks and beyond.
- 10/18/2021
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
Mississippi Masala wins at the online London Indian Film Festival
Freida Pinto, Adil Hussain & Vidya Balan win Outstanding Achievement awards; Icon awards go to Oscar nominee Deepa Mehta & Indian stalwart Shabana Azmi
The 11th anniversary of the UK and Europe’s largest South Asian film festival, supported by the Bagri Foundation and the British Film Institute (BFI) opened online, during the global pandemic, with with Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana in conversation on 25th June, and closed with Hollywood star Freida Pinto, in conversation, on 5th July, peppered with an array of free films and talks, at www.loveliffathome.com
The festival included several LGBTQ+ films, women helmed films, films from Sri Lanka and Pakistan, as well as the buzzing Satyajit Ray Short Film competition, with a jury of high profile film pundits, who deliberated over Zoom.
The festival went online with www.loveliffathome.com in May with the Satyajit Ray Competition prize winning shorts,...
Freida Pinto, Adil Hussain & Vidya Balan win Outstanding Achievement awards; Icon awards go to Oscar nominee Deepa Mehta & Indian stalwart Shabana Azmi
The 11th anniversary of the UK and Europe’s largest South Asian film festival, supported by the Bagri Foundation and the British Film Institute (BFI) opened online, during the global pandemic, with with Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana in conversation on 25th June, and closed with Hollywood star Freida Pinto, in conversation, on 5th July, peppered with an array of free films and talks, at www.loveliffathome.com
The festival included several LGBTQ+ films, women helmed films, films from Sri Lanka and Pakistan, as well as the buzzing Satyajit Ray Short Film competition, with a jury of high profile film pundits, who deliberated over Zoom.
The festival went online with www.loveliffathome.com in May with the Satyajit Ray Competition prize winning shorts,...
- 7/12/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The 11th anniversary of the UK and Europe’s largest South Asian film festival, London Indian Film Festival supported by the Bagri Foundation and the British Film Institute (BFI) opened online, during the global pandemic, full of an array of free amazing films and special In Conversations. It all began with Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana in conversation on 25th June, and closed with Hollywood star Freida Pinto on 5th July, The in conversation talks also included acclaimed Indian cinema actor, multiple Indian National Award, Filmfare winner, Padma Bhushan Shabana Azmi in conversation with British director Pratibha Parmar. Oscar nominee Deepa Mehta, BAFTA, Oscar, Golden Globe nominee Mira Nair, Indian National Award winning actor Adil Hussain with BAFTA, Academy nominated director Peter Webber.
The festival included several LGBTQ+ films, women helmed films, films from Sri Lanka and Pakistan, as well as the buzzing Satyajit Ray Short Film competition, with a jury of high profile film pundits,...
The festival included several LGBTQ+ films, women helmed films, films from Sri Lanka and Pakistan, as well as the buzzing Satyajit Ray Short Film competition, with a jury of high profile film pundits,...
- 7/11/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
“An erotic dance theatre in Lahore prepares for a new show just as a sacrificial goat goes missing, a dreamy trans girl vies for the spotlight, and a naive young boy falls in love.”
Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq’s Darling is set to become the first Pakistani film to screen at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival.Darling, set in a dance theatre in Lahore where the story revolves around a young boy and a trans girl, is the first ever Pakistani film to be an official selection and screen at any of the ‘Big Three’ film festivals. The Big Three is a term used for the three most prestigious film festivals in the world namely Cannes, Berlin and Venice.
The film’s cast includes upcoming actress Mehar Bano and Nadia Afgan of Suno Chanda and Shaslik fame. The main leads are Shani, played by Abdullah Malik,...
Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq’s Darling is set to become the first Pakistani film to screen at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival.Darling, set in a dance theatre in Lahore where the story revolves around a young boy and a trans girl, is the first ever Pakistani film to be an official selection and screen at any of the ‘Big Three’ film festivals. The Big Three is a term used for the three most prestigious film festivals in the world namely Cannes, Berlin and Venice.
The film’s cast includes upcoming actress Mehar Bano and Nadia Afgan of Suno Chanda and Shaslik fame. The main leads are Shani, played by Abdullah Malik,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Min Bahadur Bham’s female survival road movie “A Year of Cold” and Siddiq Barmak’s family drama “The Postman” are among the eight projects selected from South Asia selected by Locarno’s Open Doors Hub co-production forum to be offered for international partnerships.
This year five of the projects are closely tied to gender-related issues, marking an emerging trend in a patriarchal-dominant region. Pakistan heads the selection with two projects.
“A Year of Cold” is the sophomore directorial effort of Min Bahadur Bham, whose coming-of-age debut “The Black Hen” hit Venice Critics Week in 2015 taking the Fedeora award, and was Nepal’s 2016 Oscar submission.
Nepal-based Shooney Films (“The Black Hen”) is behind “A Year of Cold.” Set against the background of the Himalayas, and a strongly patriarchal rural society, the feature turns on a Tibetan woman refugee forced for legal reasons to find her missing husband, accompanied by her now de facto husband,...
This year five of the projects are closely tied to gender-related issues, marking an emerging trend in a patriarchal-dominant region. Pakistan heads the selection with two projects.
“A Year of Cold” is the sophomore directorial effort of Min Bahadur Bham, whose coming-of-age debut “The Black Hen” hit Venice Critics Week in 2015 taking the Fedeora award, and was Nepal’s 2016 Oscar submission.
Nepal-based Shooney Films (“The Black Hen”) is behind “A Year of Cold.” Set against the background of the Himalayas, and a strongly patriarchal rural society, the feature turns on a Tibetan woman refugee forced for legal reasons to find her missing husband, accompanied by her now de facto husband,...
- 7/25/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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