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Academy invites entries for Don and Gee Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has called for entries for the 2010 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. As many as five $30,000 fellowships will be awarded through the program in November. The Nicholl Fellowships competition is open to any individual who... Read More

Vijaya Mulay’s Book launched at MIFF

Veteran film maker and author Vijaya Mulay’s book ‘From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond: India in International Cinema’ was released by actor and film maker Nandita Das at the Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation films on Saturday. Published by the Seagull... Read More

Entries to the third Gulf Film Festival open to film makers of all nationalities

Entries to the third Gulf Film Festival, the annual event celebrating Gulf cinema, is now open for all films that depict life in the Arabian Gulf region. Filmmakers of all nationalities can submit their entries online at www.gulffilmfest.com until February 25, 2010. Winners will be announced... Read More

Indian Filmmaker on Berlin Teddy Bear Jury

Indian filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan, director of films on on transsexuals such as 'The Pink Mirror' and 'Yours Emotionally!', will be a part of the independent jury for the Teddy Bear Awards at the 60th Berlina International film festival. The festival opens on February 11th. Films dealing with... Read More

Aruna Vasudev Honoured in France

Eminent Indian film critic Aruna Vasudev was felicitated at the closing ceremony of 16th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema. The festival is held in the Vesoul city of Eastern France every year since 1995. Ms. Vasudevan was honored with The Medal of Vesoul City by the Deputy Mayor... Read More

Film on Tibetan Freedom Struggle to be screened in MIFF

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s film on Tibetan freedom struggle ‘The Sun Behind The Clouds’ will be screened on 8th of February, in the competitive section of MIFF. This film was last screened st Palm Spring International Film Festival despite detest from Chinese authorities. They had... Read More

Gabhricha Paus wins Grand Jury Prize at Vesoul International Film Festival

Gabhricha Paus directed by Satish Manwar won the Grand Jury Prize( International Jury) for Direction at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian films. It was also honoured with the Best Film Award by the Oriental Jury of the festival. The international Jury was headed by Chinese film... Read More

Subhash Ghai, Film Director, inaugurate Film From Film Schools at NCPA

Student Film Section Inaugurated at 11th MIFF

In the ongoing 11th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival for Short Films, Documentaries and Animation Films(MIFF), a special section called “Films from Film Schools” was inaugurated on Thursday. Two short films from ‘Satyajeet Ray film and Television Institute’ were screened, first was... Read More

MIFF to be Organized Every Year

The Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), which brings together documentary, short films and animation films from all over the world, would now be an annual event instead of biennial as was the case till now. This was announced by Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Ambika Soni... Read More

Hindi Film Kavi in Oscar Race, Rahman Out

American director Gregg Helvey's Hindi film Kavi, has been nominated in the Short Film category at the 82nd annual Academy Awards. Kavi was filmed entirely in Wai, near Mumbai. Kavi is a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as... Read More

LATEST REVIEWS

MIFF 2010 Diary: Children of the Pyre

It is an old saying: children should not play with fire. One would laugh at the mere sight of this statement at the cremation grounds at Manikarnika in Banaras. Seven children, the youngest nine years and the oldest just fifteen years old spend their lives on the turn of death. Their job is to... Read More

Vihir at Rotterdam Fest: A Bright Future for Marathi-Indian cinema

Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni’s second feature, Vihir (The Well) received warmest reception in Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010. An international audience was moved by a Marathi story, with impeccably beautiful visual style, narrative subtlety with layers of philosophical complexity and yet... Read More

The Hangman: A Failed Execution

It is no village different from the ordinary Indian village. The villagers are assembled in a group discussion, the chickens roam the muddy neighborhood, the women carry out their daily routine and out of nowhere we hear the common and so called uneducated village folk conversing in English as if... Read More

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