Exclusive: Five films to screen on streaming platform in August.
New York-based streaming platform Filmatique has curated an August selection in partnership with the Locarno Festival.
Filmatique will screen five features that screened under the auspices of the Locarno Open Doors international co-production initiative in 2016.
The programme runs from 2016-2018 and is designed to help South Asian filmmakers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Locarno Festival opened this week and runs through August 12.
The selections on Filmatique include: Deepak Rauniyar’s Highway (pictured), which charts the lives of passengers aboard a bus from Darjeeling to Kathmandu; Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain’s exploration of religious fundamentalism and patriarchy in her second feature, Under Construction; and Burmese filmmaker Maw Naing’s The Monk, about a young man’s crisis of faith deep in the countryside of Myanmar.
Rounding out the five are two films about contemporary Sri Lanka: Rasanna Jayakody’s 28 and [link=nm...
New York-based streaming platform Filmatique has curated an August selection in partnership with the Locarno Festival.
Filmatique will screen five features that screened under the auspices of the Locarno Open Doors international co-production initiative in 2016.
The programme runs from 2016-2018 and is designed to help South Asian filmmakers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Locarno Festival opened this week and runs through August 12.
The selections on Filmatique include: Deepak Rauniyar’s Highway (pictured), which charts the lives of passengers aboard a bus from Darjeeling to Kathmandu; Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain’s exploration of religious fundamentalism and patriarchy in her second feature, Under Construction; and Burmese filmmaker Maw Naing’s The Monk, about a young man’s crisis of faith deep in the countryside of Myanmar.
Rounding out the five are two films about contemporary Sri Lanka: Rasanna Jayakody’s 28 and [link=nm...
- 8/3/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive/Film Bazaar: Nepal’s Abinash Bikram Shah makes feature directorial debut with the project, which is selected for Film Bazaar’s Co-Production Market.
Catherine Dussart Productions (Cdp) from France and Michael Henrichs’ Die Gesellschaft Dgs from Germany have boarded Nepalese writer and director Abinash Bikram Shah’s Season of Dragonflies (Jhyalincha).
The film, selected for the Co-Production Market here, is about feisty fortysomething breast cancer survivor who has a tough decision to make after a devastating earthquake in Nepal.
Nepal’s Icefall Productions and Shooney Films are also producing. Icefall producer Ram Krishna Pokharel is also attending Film Bazaar alongside Henrichs.
Speaking to Screen at Film Bazaar, Henrichs said, “The story resonated with me and I felt he was referring to something which had great value to him. It’s a genuinely Nepali story on one hand and the emotionality of communication and overcoming crisis is a very universal theme. The advantage...
Catherine Dussart Productions (Cdp) from France and Michael Henrichs’ Die Gesellschaft Dgs from Germany have boarded Nepalese writer and director Abinash Bikram Shah’s Season of Dragonflies (Jhyalincha).
The film, selected for the Co-Production Market here, is about feisty fortysomething breast cancer survivor who has a tough decision to make after a devastating earthquake in Nepal.
Nepal’s Icefall Productions and Shooney Films are also producing. Icefall producer Ram Krishna Pokharel is also attending Film Bazaar alongside Henrichs.
Speaking to Screen at Film Bazaar, Henrichs said, “The story resonated with me and I felt he was referring to something which had great value to him. It’s a genuinely Nepali story on one hand and the emotionality of communication and overcoming crisis is a very universal theme. The advantage...
- 11/21/2016
- by uditaj@gmail.com (Udita Jhunjhunwala)
- ScreenDaily
Deepak Rauniyar
New York based Nepali filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar’s second feature project “White Sun” has been selected for L’Atelier of Cannes film festival 2014.
L’Atelier, the co-production workshop held as part of Cinefondation, hand picks projects from all over the world and invites the directors and their producers to meet potential partners during the festival.
Rauniyar’s 2012 project Highway premiered at the Berlinale in Panorama section.
White Sun is a dark comedy about life in a Nepali village in the wake of the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. Little Pooja lives with her mother Durga and grandfather Chitra in a remote mountain village. She has never met her father, Agni, who joined the Maoist guerrillas and left their village years ago to fight the government. The devastating war is over, and Agni’s rebel Maoist party now heads the government.
The project was a part of Nfdc Film Bazaar,...
New York based Nepali filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar’s second feature project “White Sun” has been selected for L’Atelier of Cannes film festival 2014.
L’Atelier, the co-production workshop held as part of Cinefondation, hand picks projects from all over the world and invites the directors and their producers to meet potential partners during the festival.
Rauniyar’s 2012 project Highway premiered at the Berlinale in Panorama section.
White Sun is a dark comedy about life in a Nepali village in the wake of the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. Little Pooja lives with her mother Durga and grandfather Chitra in a remote mountain village. She has never met her father, Agni, who joined the Maoist guerrillas and left their village years ago to fight the government. The devastating war is over, and Agni’s rebel Maoist party now heads the government.
The project was a part of Nfdc Film Bazaar,...
- 3/10/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
W hite Sun is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013.
Deepak Rauniyar
Project description. Language.
White Sun is a dark comedy about life in a Nepali village in the wake of the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. Little Pooja lives with her mother Durga and grandfather Chitra in a remote mountain village. She has never met her father, Agni, who joined the Maoist guerrillas and left their village years ago to fight the government. The devastating war is over, and Agni’s rebel Maoist party now heads the government.
Agni returns to the village for the first time in 10 years for Chitra’s funeral. Pooja watches her father and mother readjust to each other’s presence and her father fight with the family’s closest friend, Suraj – who fought on the government side during the war. When Suraj leaves, Agni cannot find...
Deepak Rauniyar
Project description. Language.
White Sun is a dark comedy about life in a Nepali village in the wake of the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. Little Pooja lives with her mother Durga and grandfather Chitra in a remote mountain village. She has never met her father, Agni, who joined the Maoist guerrillas and left their village years ago to fight the government. The devastating war is over, and Agni’s rebel Maoist party now heads the government.
Agni returns to the village for the first time in 10 years for Chitra’s funeral. Pooja watches her father and mother readjust to each other’s presence and her father fight with the family’s closest friend, Suraj – who fought on the government side during the war. When Suraj leaves, Agni cannot find...
- 11/19/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
As a veteran of 2006′s Rock Star: Supernova, Josh Logan knows better than any of his current Voice counterparts what national TV exposure can do for the career prospects of a working musician — and how important it is to capitalize on said momentum.
“After Rock Star, I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada. And I was making a hell of a lot more money than before,” Logan recalls. “The problem was, I really didn’t move as quickly as I should have. I dropped the ball.”
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“After Rock Star, I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada. And I was making a hell of a lot more money than before,” Logan recalls. “The problem was, I really didn’t move as quickly as I should have. I dropped the ball.”
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- 11/16/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
The 12th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival, New Delhi (27 July to 5 August 2012) will open with Japanese director Keiichi Sato’s “Asura” and close with Rituparno Ghosh’s “Chitragandha”.
Festival announced its competition lineup and highlights on Wednesday.
According to the official press release the festival will present 15 World premieres, 8 International premieres, 104 Indian premieres and 13 Asian premieres from China, Estonia, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Morocco and Algeria among other Asian and Arab countries.
Films In Competition
Asian & Arab
1. Death For Sale (Mort à Vendre)/Faouzi Bensaidi, Morocco, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates
2011/India Premiere
2. Ex Press (Ex Press)/Jet Leyco, Philippines 2011/India Premiere
3. Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah)/Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand 2011/India Premiere
4. Highway (Autobahn)/Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal, USA 2011/Asia Premiere
5. Inside (Yeralti)/Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey 2012/Asia Premiere
6. Mekong Hotel/Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, UK 2012/India Premiere
7. Milocrorze: A Love Story (Mirokurôze)/Yoshimasa Ishibashi, Japan 2011/India...
Festival announced its competition lineup and highlights on Wednesday.
According to the official press release the festival will present 15 World premieres, 8 International premieres, 104 Indian premieres and 13 Asian premieres from China, Estonia, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Morocco and Algeria among other Asian and Arab countries.
Films In Competition
Asian & Arab
1. Death For Sale (Mort à Vendre)/Faouzi Bensaidi, Morocco, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates
2011/India Premiere
2. Ex Press (Ex Press)/Jet Leyco, Philippines 2011/India Premiere
3. Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah)/Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand 2011/India Premiere
4. Highway (Autobahn)/Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal, USA 2011/Asia Premiere
5. Inside (Yeralti)/Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey 2012/Asia Premiere
6. Mekong Hotel/Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, UK 2012/India Premiere
7. Milocrorze: A Love Story (Mirokurôze)/Yoshimasa Ishibashi, Japan 2011/India...
- 7/12/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Justin Bieber was given a speeding ticket by California police yesterday morning (July 6). 18-year-old Bieber claimed he was being chased by paparazzi and exceeded the 65mph speed limit to evade multiple vehicles. California Highway Patrol Officer Ming Hsu said the singer was stopped at about 10.45am Pst yesterday, after the police received calls alerting them to a chase on southbound Us Highway 101, near Studio City. According to TMZ, a total of ten 911 calls reporting the incident were recorded. Eyewitness and Los Angeles City councilman Dennis Zine said he called authorities after seeing the singer's chrome-finish Fisker Karma being chased by five or six other cars. He claims the 'Boyfriend' star was driving at speeds exceeding 100mph. "Bieber was driving like a maniac," he said. "He was weaving in and out of traffic. There was (more)...
- 7/7/2012
- by By Alison Rowley
- Digital Spy
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