Irrfan Khan, Christina Voros and Catherine Dussart to preside over feature competition juries; seven world premieres of Arab films in feature competitions.
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 23-Nov 1) has released the names of its jury members, who will select the award winners of this year’s Adff competitions.
This year’s Narrative Features jury led by Mumbai-based actor Irrfan Khan (The Lunchbox, Life of Pi) will be rounded out by Algerian novelist and academic Waciny Laredj, award-winning English writer-director Steven Shainberg, Australian film director Cate Shortland and Palestinian actor Ali Suliman.
The panel evaluating the New Horizons section led by Paris-based film producer Catherine Dussart (The Missing Picture) includes Syrian actor Bassel Al Khayat, Moroccan filmmaker Leila Kilani, Geneva-based Indian filmmaker Anup Singh and film critic Charles Tesson, artistic director of Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival.
Heading the Documentary Features jury is Brooklyn-based director and cinematographer Christina Voros. The other jury...
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 23-Nov 1) has released the names of its jury members, who will select the award winners of this year’s Adff competitions.
This year’s Narrative Features jury led by Mumbai-based actor Irrfan Khan (The Lunchbox, Life of Pi) will be rounded out by Algerian novelist and academic Waciny Laredj, award-winning English writer-director Steven Shainberg, Australian film director Cate Shortland and Palestinian actor Ali Suliman.
The panel evaluating the New Horizons section led by Paris-based film producer Catherine Dussart (The Missing Picture) includes Syrian actor Bassel Al Khayat, Moroccan filmmaker Leila Kilani, Geneva-based Indian filmmaker Anup Singh and film critic Charles Tesson, artistic director of Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival.
Heading the Documentary Features jury is Brooklyn-based director and cinematographer Christina Voros. The other jury...
- 10/20/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Amar Kanwar
New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker, artist and activist Amar Kanwar has been declared as the winner of the 2014 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.
This prestigious annual prize, instituted by New York-based Ngo Creative Time, is given to artists whose work, like that of Kanwar, provokes awareness of and engagement with critical issues of our time, working to advance the causes of equity and justice.
Kanwar was selected from a pool of over 250 artists. The nomination process was opened to recommendations from the public for the first time since the inception of the award in 2009.
“Kanwar, who creates complex films on critical socio-political issues, will use his prize earnings—$25,000—to advance his latest project,” writes Creative Time website. Titled The Sovereign Forest, the project comprises a constellation of moving and still images, texts, books, pamphlets, albums, music, objects, seeds, events, and processes, brought together an ambitious attempt...
New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker, artist and activist Amar Kanwar has been declared as the winner of the 2014 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.
This prestigious annual prize, instituted by New York-based Ngo Creative Time, is given to artists whose work, like that of Kanwar, provokes awareness of and engagement with critical issues of our time, working to advance the causes of equity and justice.
Kanwar was selected from a pool of over 250 artists. The nomination process was opened to recommendations from the public for the first time since the inception of the award in 2009.
“Kanwar, who creates complex films on critical socio-political issues, will use his prize earnings—$25,000—to advance his latest project,” writes Creative Time website. Titled The Sovereign Forest, the project comprises a constellation of moving and still images, texts, books, pamphlets, albums, music, objects, seeds, events, and processes, brought together an ambitious attempt...
- 6/13/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What:
Screening of documentary films on the theme of “Road Trips”, curated by Paromita Vohra at Fd Zone, Mumbai
When:
May 31, 4 pm onwards
Where:
Rr 2 Theatre
6th floor
Stage 2 Building
Films Division
Pedder Road, Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
Details of program:
Trip/ Udan
Pramod Pati, B/W, 35mm, 4 min, 1970
Day lapses into night, emptiness into frenzy and then rest again. The city wakes up, never really having slept. A time-lapse experimental film that chronicles Bombay’s breathless pace, its endless race of trains, cars and shadows.
Director – Pramod Pati
Camera – B. V. Dhawale
Editing – U. H. Rao
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Sound – S. D. Patil
Producer – Films Division
A Mercedes For Ashish /Aur Ashish Ke Liye Ek Mercedes
Ruchir Joshi, Digital Video, 31 min, 2006
The cruel city and its ruthless traffic run down love and other such delusions.
In `A Mercedes for Ashish’, an unseen man waits...
Screening of documentary films on the theme of “Road Trips”, curated by Paromita Vohra at Fd Zone, Mumbai
When:
May 31, 4 pm onwards
Where:
Rr 2 Theatre
6th floor
Stage 2 Building
Films Division
Pedder Road, Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
Details of program:
Trip/ Udan
Pramod Pati, B/W, 35mm, 4 min, 1970
Day lapses into night, emptiness into frenzy and then rest again. The city wakes up, never really having slept. A time-lapse experimental film that chronicles Bombay’s breathless pace, its endless race of trains, cars and shadows.
Director – Pramod Pati
Camera – B. V. Dhawale
Editing – U. H. Rao
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Sound – S. D. Patil
Producer – Films Division
A Mercedes For Ashish /Aur Ashish Ke Liye Ek Mercedes
Ruchir Joshi, Digital Video, 31 min, 2006
The cruel city and its ruthless traffic run down love and other such delusions.
In `A Mercedes for Ashish’, an unseen man waits...
- 5/26/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What:
The first edition of Hello Cinema! The film Club in New Delhi will witness an evening with Amar Kanwar. A conversation with the director followed by screening of his shorts.
When:
25 April. 6.30 Pm.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Chinmaya Ranjan
H-1589
Chittaranjan Park
New Delhi- 110019
About the event:
‘Engaging with the Shorts’
Screening of national and international shorts followed by discussion with filmmaker Amar Kanwar who will talk about his work.
Amar Kanwar has made films such as The News, The Face, Thet Win Aung and A Season Outside among others which explore ideas of violence, memory and resistance in India and Burma. Finding a contextual relationship with diverse audiences, Kanwar’s work maps a journey of exploration revealing the audience’s relationship with the politics of power, violence, sexuality and justice.
Hello Cinema! The film club is run by film critic Indu Shrikent. She can be contacted at ishrikent@gmail.
The first edition of Hello Cinema! The film Club in New Delhi will witness an evening with Amar Kanwar. A conversation with the director followed by screening of his shorts.
When:
25 April. 6.30 Pm.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Chinmaya Ranjan
H-1589
Chittaranjan Park
New Delhi- 110019
About the event:
‘Engaging with the Shorts’
Screening of national and international shorts followed by discussion with filmmaker Amar Kanwar who will talk about his work.
Amar Kanwar has made films such as The News, The Face, Thet Win Aung and A Season Outside among others which explore ideas of violence, memory and resistance in India and Burma. Finding a contextual relationship with diverse audiences, Kanwar’s work maps a journey of exploration revealing the audience’s relationship with the politics of power, violence, sexuality and justice.
Hello Cinema! The film club is run by film critic Indu Shrikent. She can be contacted at ishrikent@gmail.
- 4/23/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from “A Season Outside”
Screening of
1) The News
2) The Face
3) Thet Win Aung
4) A Season Outside
At Fd Zone, New Delhi.
When:
6th March, 2014. 7 Pm.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Gulmohar Hall,
India Habitat Centre
New Delhi
About the event:
The 6th edition of Fd Zone Delhi presents a set of films made by Amar Kanwar, which explore ideas of violence, memory and resistance in India and Burma. The films are an exploration of sites of State violence (both physical and psychological), and resistance. In revisiting the violent events that have taken place, whether in Punjab, Orissa, Manipur or the border of India-Pakistan, this set of films force us to examine the political events that have shaped the present in the Indian subcontinent and Burma. The films also raise questions around our individual and collective memory of what we choose to remember, what we choose to forget,...
Screening of
1) The News
2) The Face
3) Thet Win Aung
4) A Season Outside
At Fd Zone, New Delhi.
When:
6th March, 2014. 7 Pm.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Gulmohar Hall,
India Habitat Centre
New Delhi
About the event:
The 6th edition of Fd Zone Delhi presents a set of films made by Amar Kanwar, which explore ideas of violence, memory and resistance in India and Burma. The films are an exploration of sites of State violence (both physical and psychological), and resistance. In revisiting the violent events that have taken place, whether in Punjab, Orissa, Manipur or the border of India-Pakistan, this set of films force us to examine the political events that have shaped the present in the Indian subcontinent and Burma. The films also raise questions around our individual and collective memory of what we choose to remember, what we choose to forget,...
- 2/22/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” will be held at Films Division from June 28-30, 2013. Curators Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar share with us the thought behind putting together the Retrospective:
Curatorial Concept
A still from “Raja Harishchandra”
T his retrospective is a celebration of the spirit of experimentation in Indian cinema; from the moment of its mythic birth in 1913, with Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, to the innovative and challenging moving images produced and exhibited today. The films brought together chart the transformation of experimentation, from early celluloid spectacle to contemporary digital adroitness. The curatorial impetus of this retrospective is marked by an emphasis on tracing the chronology of experimentation through the history of Indian cinema. It halts at pit stops of radical moments of experimentation and underscores it.
The idea of ‘experimentation’ rather than the experimental or avant-garde drives the...
Curatorial Concept
A still from “Raja Harishchandra”
T his retrospective is a celebration of the spirit of experimentation in Indian cinema; from the moment of its mythic birth in 1913, with Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, to the innovative and challenging moving images produced and exhibited today. The films brought together chart the transformation of experimentation, from early celluloid spectacle to contemporary digital adroitness. The curatorial impetus of this retrospective is marked by an emphasis on tracing the chronology of experimentation through the history of Indian cinema. It halts at pit stops of radical moments of experimentation and underscores it.
The idea of ‘experimentation’ rather than the experimental or avant-garde drives the...
- 6/26/2013
- by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar
- DearCinema.com
Katha Centre for Film Studies is inviting applications for its second Workshop on Film Curatorial Practices from 22nd – 26thAugust, 2011. The last date for submitting applications is August 10, 2011.
The workshop aims to equip young film enthusiasts with specialized knowledge about Film Curation, and will focus on Curatorial research methods, Practical aspects of curation, Curatorial writing, Context specific curation, Different ways of engaging with audiences and Critical understandings on the history of film criticism and curation.
At the end of the five-day workshop, participants will submit their own curatorial proposals, based on which they will be selected for a second one-day workshop, to be held two months after the first.
Between the two workshops, a mentor will guide the participants and help them refine their curatorial proposals. After the second workshop, the selected participants will get an opportunity to curate a day-long film festival.
Madhusree Dutta, Gargi Sen, Bina Paul, Amar Kanwar,...
The workshop aims to equip young film enthusiasts with specialized knowledge about Film Curation, and will focus on Curatorial research methods, Practical aspects of curation, Curatorial writing, Context specific curation, Different ways of engaging with audiences and Critical understandings on the history of film criticism and curation.
At the end of the five-day workshop, participants will submit their own curatorial proposals, based on which they will be selected for a second one-day workshop, to be held two months after the first.
Between the two workshops, a mentor will guide the participants and help them refine their curatorial proposals. After the second workshop, the selected participants will get an opportunity to curate a day-long film festival.
Madhusree Dutta, Gargi Sen, Bina Paul, Amar Kanwar,...
- 7/16/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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