Mumbai-based Jar Pictures is attending Film Bazaar with a busy, multiple-language slate, including Ajitpal Singh’s The Man Who Broke The Mountain, to be co-produced by Mexican writer-producer Guillermo Arriaga [pictured].
The Hindi-language drama, based on the true story of India’s “Mountain Man” Dashrath Manjhi, was selected for the Mumbai Mantra/Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2012.
Arriaga, who wrote Babel and produced Venice Golden Lion winner From Afar, was a mentor at the lab.
Jar’s Alan McAlex and his partner Ajay G. Rai are also producing the next film from Liar’s Dice director Geetu Mohandas, Malayalam-language Mulakoya, which will shoot next year in Lakshadweep Islands, Kerala and Mumbai. The project was selected for this year’s Drishyam/Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Following its success with Avinash Arun’s award-winning Killa, which opened in France last month, Jar is also producing Arun’s next Marathi-language film, Boomerang.
The company will also produce the next project from Crossing Bridges director...
The Hindi-language drama, based on the true story of India’s “Mountain Man” Dashrath Manjhi, was selected for the Mumbai Mantra/Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2012.
Arriaga, who wrote Babel and produced Venice Golden Lion winner From Afar, was a mentor at the lab.
Jar’s Alan McAlex and his partner Ajay G. Rai are also producing the next film from Liar’s Dice director Geetu Mohandas, Malayalam-language Mulakoya, which will shoot next year in Lakshadweep Islands, Kerala and Mumbai. The project was selected for this year’s Drishyam/Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Following its success with Avinash Arun’s award-winning Killa, which opened in France last month, Jar is also producing Arun’s next Marathi-language film, Boomerang.
The company will also produce the next project from Crossing Bridges director...
- 11/23/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Mumbai-based Jar Pictures is attending Film Bazaar with a busy, multiple-language slate, including Ajitpal Singh’s The Man Who Broke The Mountain, to be co-produced by Mexican writer-producer Guillermo Arriaga [pictured].
The Hindi-language drama, based on the true story of India’s “Mountain Man” Dashrath Manjhi, was selected for the Mumbai Mantra/Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2012. Arriaga, who wrote Babel and produced Venice Golden Lion winner From Afar, was a mentor at the lab.
Jar’s Alan McAlex and his partner Ajay G. Rai are also producing the next film from Liar’s Dice director Geetu Mohandas, Malayalam-language Mulakoya, which will shoot next year in Lakshadweep Islands, Kerala and Mumbai. The project was selected for this year’s Drishyam/Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Following its success with Avinash Arun’s award-winning Killa, which opened in France last month, Jar is also producing Arun’s next Marathi-language film, Boomerang. The company will also produce the next project from Crossing Bridges director...
The Hindi-language drama, based on the true story of India’s “Mountain Man” Dashrath Manjhi, was selected for the Mumbai Mantra/Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2012. Arriaga, who wrote Babel and produced Venice Golden Lion winner From Afar, was a mentor at the lab.
Jar’s Alan McAlex and his partner Ajay G. Rai are also producing the next film from Liar’s Dice director Geetu Mohandas, Malayalam-language Mulakoya, which will shoot next year in Lakshadweep Islands, Kerala and Mumbai. The project was selected for this year’s Drishyam/Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Following its success with Avinash Arun’s award-winning Killa, which opened in France last month, Jar is also producing Arun’s next Marathi-language film, Boomerang. The company will also produce the next project from Crossing Bridges director...
- 11/23/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Chicago South Asian Film Festival, to be held between September 18th and 21st, will open with Geethu Mohandas’ Liar’s Dice. The film has Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Thapa in lead roles and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout will be the centerpiece film of the festival. Agneya Singh’s M Cream will be screened as the Friday night feature. Rajat Kapoor’s Ankhon Dekhi will close the Festival on Sunday evening.
Here is the complete lineup of the festival:
A Boy Called Boris (Director: Ashok Vish): World Premiere; Short Film; United States; Max Kolby, Brian Gildea, Jose Amor
Algorithms (Director: Ian McDonald): U.S. Premiere; Documentary; India
Ankhon Dekhi (Director: Rajat Kapoor): Chicago Premiere; Feature; India; Sanjay Mishra, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Pahwa
Are You Listening! – Shunte Ki Pao! (Director: Kamar Ahmad Simon): U.S. Premiere...
Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout will be the centerpiece film of the festival. Agneya Singh’s M Cream will be screened as the Friday night feature. Rajat Kapoor’s Ankhon Dekhi will close the Festival on Sunday evening.
Here is the complete lineup of the festival:
A Boy Called Boris (Director: Ashok Vish): World Premiere; Short Film; United States; Max Kolby, Brian Gildea, Jose Amor
Algorithms (Director: Ian McDonald): U.S. Premiere; Documentary; India
Ankhon Dekhi (Director: Rajat Kapoor): Chicago Premiere; Feature; India; Sanjay Mishra, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Pahwa
Are You Listening! – Shunte Ki Pao! (Director: Kamar Ahmad Simon): U.S. Premiere...
- 9/9/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
S ange Dorjee’s Crossing Bridges, which recently screened at the Mumbai Film Festival, is the first film made in Shertukpen, the dialect spoken by a tribal community of the same name in Arunachal Pradesh. Shot in the hilly villages of Arunachal Pradesh using a Canon 5D, the film will also be showcased at the upcoming International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) in December. Sange Dorjee, in conversation with DearCinema correspondent Anita Thomas:
Sange Dorjee
Your film is a comment on several issues grappling the remote and small towns of the country. Negligence of these towns, displacement of the youth etc. Is it an autobiographical film?
Displacement would be a good word, but not so much physical displacement as cultural or emotional one. My generation has had to leave home to get better higher-education and employment outside as the north eastern region doesn’t have the required infrastructure. The...
Sange Dorjee
Your film is a comment on several issues grappling the remote and small towns of the country. Negligence of these towns, displacement of the youth etc. Is it an autobiographical film?
Displacement would be a good word, but not so much physical displacement as cultural or emotional one. My generation has had to leave home to get better higher-education and employment outside as the north eastern region doesn’t have the required infrastructure. The...
- 10/29/2013
- by Anita Thomas
- DearCinema.com
The line-up of the 2nd edition of the Dharamshala International Film festival has been announced. The festival will showcase feature films, documentaries and short films.
Organised by White Crane Arts & Media; the festival will be held from October 24 – 27, 2013 in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala.
This year, a new section ‘Art and Film’ has been introduced at the festival in collaboration with Vienna-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation. The section will feature art films made by international artists Sean Snyder, Wael Shawky, Marine Hugonnier, Omer Fast, Walid Raad and Rabih Mroué.
The Best of recent Indian Shorts curated by filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will also be showcased.
Besides, Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s Watermark will make its world premiere at the festival.
Some of the film personalities who will attend the festival are: Jacek Borcuch (Lasting), Nishtha Jain (Gulabi Gang), Nitin Kakkar (Filmistaan), Avijit Mukul Kishore (To Let the World In), Nagraj Manjule (Fandry...
Organised by White Crane Arts & Media; the festival will be held from October 24 – 27, 2013 in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala.
This year, a new section ‘Art and Film’ has been introduced at the festival in collaboration with Vienna-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation. The section will feature art films made by international artists Sean Snyder, Wael Shawky, Marine Hugonnier, Omer Fast, Walid Raad and Rabih Mroué.
The Best of recent Indian Shorts curated by filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will also be showcased.
Besides, Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s Watermark will make its world premiere at the festival.
Some of the film personalities who will attend the festival are: Jacek Borcuch (Lasting), Nishtha Jain (Gulabi Gang), Nitin Kakkar (Filmistaan), Avijit Mukul Kishore (To Let the World In), Nagraj Manjule (Fandry...
- 10/16/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
F rom the works of masters like Costa-Gavras and Asghar Farhadi to newcomers like Nagraj Manjule and Kim Mordaunt, the Mumbai Film Festival 2013 offers above 200 films to choose from for an entire week!
Anu Rangachar, the Program Director of Mumbai Film Festival, lists her 20 favourite films in the lineup.
1. The Act of Killing
Dir.: Joshua Oppenheimer (2012 / Col. / 115′)
Section: The Real Reel
The film won the Panorama Audience Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2013 and the Cph:dox Award at the Cph:dox Film Festival 2012. It has bagged several other awards in film festivals at Istanbul, Prague, Geneva, Warsaw, Barcelona, Zagreb, Mexico, etc.
An Indonesian documentary, The Act of Killing challenges the total impunity on genocide by the death squad leaders. In 1965, Anwar Congo and his friends were promoted to the ranks of Death Squad Leaders to help the army obliterate more than one million alleged communists,...
Anu Rangachar, the Program Director of Mumbai Film Festival, lists her 20 favourite films in the lineup.
1. The Act of Killing
Dir.: Joshua Oppenheimer (2012 / Col. / 115′)
Section: The Real Reel
The film won the Panorama Audience Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2013 and the Cph:dox Award at the Cph:dox Film Festival 2012. It has bagged several other awards in film festivals at Istanbul, Prague, Geneva, Warsaw, Barcelona, Zagreb, Mexico, etc.
An Indonesian documentary, The Act of Killing challenges the total impunity on genocide by the death squad leaders. In 1965, Anwar Congo and his friends were promoted to the ranks of Death Squad Leaders to help the army obliterate more than one million alleged communists,...
- 10/10/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Lee Daniels’ The Butler will open the 15th Mumbai Film Festival (October 17-24), which will screen more than 200 films from 65 countries and award $220,000 in cash prizes.
Presented by Reliance Entertainment and organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami), the festival features four competitions sections, including the India Gold competition for Indian features (see full line-up below).
The International Competition for First Features has selected 13 films including Kim Morduant’s The Rocket; Singapore’s Oscar submission Ilo Ilo, directed by Anthony Chen; UK director Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon.
The International Competition jury is headed by Bruce Beresford, while Asghar Farhadi is presiding over the India Gold jury; Indian director Hansal Mehta (Shahid) is heading the Celebrate Age jury, and Shoojit Sircar (Vicky Donor) is heading the Dimensions Mumbai jury.
The World Cinema section includes festival hits such as Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is The Warmest Color, [link...
Presented by Reliance Entertainment and organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami), the festival features four competitions sections, including the India Gold competition for Indian features (see full line-up below).
The International Competition for First Features has selected 13 films including Kim Morduant’s The Rocket; Singapore’s Oscar submission Ilo Ilo, directed by Anthony Chen; UK director Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon.
The International Competition jury is headed by Bruce Beresford, while Asghar Farhadi is presiding over the India Gold jury; Indian director Hansal Mehta (Shahid) is heading the Celebrate Age jury, and Shoojit Sircar (Vicky Donor) is heading the Dimensions Mumbai jury.
The World Cinema section includes festival hits such as Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is The Warmest Color, [link...
- 9/26/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Lee Daniels’ The Butler will open the 15th Mumbai Film Festival (October 17-24), which will screen more than 200 films from 65 countries and award $220,000 in cash prizes.
Presented by Reliance Entertainment and organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami), the festival features four competitions sections, including the India Gold competition for Indian features (see full line-up below).
The International Competition for First Features has selected 13 films including Kim Morduant’s The Rocket; Singapore’s Oscar submission Ilo Ilo, directed by Anthony Chen; UK director Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon.
The International Competition jury is headed by Bruce Beresford, while Asghar Farhadi is presiding over the India Gold jury; Indian director Hansal Mehta (Shahid) is heading the Celebrate Age jury, and Shoojit Sircar (Vicky Donor) is heading the Dimensions Mumbai jury.
The World Cinema section includes festival hits such as Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is The Warmest Color, [link...
Presented by Reliance Entertainment and organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami), the festival features four competitions sections, including the India Gold competition for Indian features (see full line-up below).
The International Competition for First Features has selected 13 films including Kim Morduant’s The Rocket; Singapore’s Oscar submission Ilo Ilo, directed by Anthony Chen; UK director Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon.
The International Competition jury is headed by Bruce Beresford, while Asghar Farhadi is presiding over the India Gold jury; Indian director Hansal Mehta (Shahid) is heading the Celebrate Age jury, and Shoojit Sircar (Vicky Donor) is heading the Dimensions Mumbai jury.
The World Cinema section includes festival hits such as Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is The Warmest Color, [link...
- 9/26/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Montpelier-based sales and distribution Company Insomnia World Sales has picked up sales rights to Crossing Bridges by Sange Dorjee Thongdok.
The film revolves around Tashi, a web designer in Mumbai who is forced to come back to his village in the remote north-eastern region of India after eight years, after he loses his job. He realizes that while at home, for his family and friends, Mumbai was a foreign land, his own village has become foreign for him. While he stays in the village waiting for news of a new job, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and people.
“This film reveals a universal story dealing with roots, origins and the search of the right place to settle, between tradition and modernity. Definitely a film that should appeal to foreign art-house audiences, thanks to the director’s talent as well as the wonderful cinematography,...
The film revolves around Tashi, a web designer in Mumbai who is forced to come back to his village in the remote north-eastern region of India after eight years, after he loses his job. He realizes that while at home, for his family and friends, Mumbai was a foreign land, his own village has become foreign for him. While he stays in the village waiting for news of a new job, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and people.
“This film reveals a universal story dealing with roots, origins and the search of the right place to settle, between tradition and modernity. Definitely a film that should appeal to foreign art-house audiences, thanks to the director’s talent as well as the wonderful cinematography,...
- 8/13/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Nfdc has appointed filmmaker Sudhir Mishra, European script consultant Philippa Campbell and Chris Paton of Fortissimo Films as mentors of Work-in-Progress lab of Film Bazaar 2012.
The projects selected for the Work-In-Progress Lab 2012 are:
Ø Bhacraa (The Divine Goat) – Directed by Janaki Vishwanathan
Ø Crossing Bridges – Directed by Sange Dorjee Thongdok
Ø Love - Directed by Abhineet Gogne
Ø Phoring – Directed by Indranil Roychowdhury
Ø Tumbad – Directed by Rahi Anil Barve
Some of the films from the 2011 Wip Lab that have gone on to have World premieres at prestigious international film festivals were:
Ø Ashim Ahluwalia’s - Miss Lovely - Cannes Film Festival 2012 - Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2012
Ø Manjeet Singh’s - Mumbai Cha Raja - Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Ø Anand Gandhi’s - Ship of Theseus - Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Ø Ajay Bahl’s - BA Pass - 12th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival...
The projects selected for the Work-In-Progress Lab 2012 are:
Ø Bhacraa (The Divine Goat) – Directed by Janaki Vishwanathan
Ø Crossing Bridges – Directed by Sange Dorjee Thongdok
Ø Love - Directed by Abhineet Gogne
Ø Phoring – Directed by Indranil Roychowdhury
Ø Tumbad – Directed by Rahi Anil Barve
Some of the films from the 2011 Wip Lab that have gone on to have World premieres at prestigious international film festivals were:
Ø Ashim Ahluwalia’s - Miss Lovely - Cannes Film Festival 2012 - Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2012
Ø Manjeet Singh’s - Mumbai Cha Raja - Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Ø Anand Gandhi’s - Ship of Theseus - Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Ø Ajay Bahl’s - BA Pass - 12th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival...
- 11/5/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Nfdc announced the names of five projects selected for the Work-in-progress (Wip) Lab as part of Film Bazaar 2012.
In the Wip Lab, projects in their rough cut stage are presented to a panel of international film experts.
The sixth Film Bazaar will be held from November 21-24, 2012 at the Goa Marriott Resort alongside the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2012.
The following projects have been selected for the Work-in-Progress Lab, 2012:
Bhacraa (The Divine Goat)
Director – Janaki Vishwanathan
Crossing Bridges
Director – Sange Dorjee Thongdok
Love
Director – Abhineet Gogne
Phoring
Director – Indranil Roychowdhury
Tumbad
Director – Rahi Anil Barve...
In the Wip Lab, projects in their rough cut stage are presented to a panel of international film experts.
The sixth Film Bazaar will be held from November 21-24, 2012 at the Goa Marriott Resort alongside the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2012.
The following projects have been selected for the Work-in-Progress Lab, 2012:
Bhacraa (The Divine Goat)
Director – Janaki Vishwanathan
Crossing Bridges
Director – Sange Dorjee Thongdok
Love
Director – Abhineet Gogne
Phoring
Director – Indranil Roychowdhury
Tumbad
Director – Rahi Anil Barve...
- 10/31/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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