If your feature film has been screened at any major international film festival including IFFI, Goa from year 2000 onwards, a new window opens for recovery. Doordarshan(DD), the public broadcaster of India, will screen such films along with National Award winners in a newly created program “Best of Indian Cinema” and [...]
Gurvinder Singh’s Punjabi film ‘Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan’ bagged Golden Peacock for the best film and a cash prize of Rs. 4 million (USD 73600) at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2012. The festival came to a close today with the screening of Mira Nair’s ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. The IFFI this year [...]
Celebrating the centenary year of Indian cinema, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) has launched a Special Indian Cinema Centenary Award.
The 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa will be inaugurated by Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar. The 11 Day Festival will open on November 20, 2012. Shankar Mohan, Festival Director, International Film Festival of India was quoted in an official press release from the festival, “We are proud to have Akshay Kumar who would formally [...]
The Columbian film ‘Porfirio’ directed by Alejandro Landes and produced by Franciso Aljure has bagged the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 42nd International Film Festival of India 2011, while the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Director went to Asghar Farhadi for his film ‘Nader and Simin-A Seperation’. The Indian [...]
The Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni will present the Lifetime Achievement Award to French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier at the inauguration of the 42nd International Film Festival of India on November 23 in Goa. It was announced at the curtain raiser press conference held in Goa on Tuesday. The Lifetime Achievement Award carries an [...]
The 42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will open with the Portuguese film The Consul of Bordeaux directed by Manuel Gonzales. The film is based on the life of Portuguese consul general Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux, France, who helped thousands of Jewish refugees to extricate themselves from France, after Hitler’s armed forces [...]
After much speculation, the word is finally out that the International Film Festival of India, Goa will see the Short Film Center (SFC) happening alongside. The official call for entries for the Short Film Center will be out shortly, as confirmed by the organizer of SFC, the Entertainment Society of Goa. The last date for [...]
With the deadline for submissions for Locarno Festival’s co-production lab Open Doors only few days away, the festival has received about 100 entries from India so far. The deadline for the submission of projects is set on March 13th, 2011. This year, Open Doors is focusing on India as announced by Festival’s Artistic Director Olivier [...]
A film which was completely ignored at the IFFI ’10 in Goa but which would have repaid patience several fold was part of a small Georgian package. The film was shown in a bad print with a loud Russian commentary which had then been subtitled in English. Watching the film was a strenuous exercise but [...]
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