After the impressive success of the BAFTA Breakthrough India programme in 2021 and 2022, BAFTA is once again launching the scheme for a third year. Applications open today until 5 July, and the programme is open to creatives from across the film, games and television industries nationally, as well as those working in the UK and the US.
This year also marks Netflix’s third year supporting BAFTA Breakthrough in India and its fourth year in the UK and US.
BAFTA Breakthrough aims to identify and nurture emerging talent from around the world and equip them with the resources they need to develop their skills and progress in their chosen field. First launched in the UK ten years ago, BAFTA Breakthrough is one of the arts charity’s flagship talent schemes, with over 200 careers developed and accelerated to-date.
Through this initiative, BAFTA Breakthrough India will once again identify and celebrate Indian talent by...
This year also marks Netflix’s third year supporting BAFTA Breakthrough in India and its fourth year in the UK and US.
BAFTA Breakthrough aims to identify and nurture emerging talent from around the world and equip them with the resources they need to develop their skills and progress in their chosen field. First launched in the UK ten years ago, BAFTA Breakthrough is one of the arts charity’s flagship talent schemes, with over 200 careers developed and accelerated to-date.
Through this initiative, BAFTA Breakthrough India will once again identify and celebrate Indian talent by...
- 5/12/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
Writer and Director: Akshay Singh. Cast: Sulagna Panigrahi, Jogi Mallang, Vishwanath Chatterjee, Akshay Singh, Anupama Negi, Sangam Rai, Arpita Banerjee, Khusboo Gupta and Abhay Joshi.
Cinematography: Gagandeep Singh. Music: Arvind /Lyton and Chintu Saarthak Kalla.
Rating: ****
One could have an eye operation for better eyesight, but not for better attitude. This one is a special movie that highlights the plight of dark-skinned young women who are oppressed and insulted with subtle jibes about their skin colour.
India is obsessed with fairness, despite being a dark-skinned nation. The unprecedented race to be fair, marry a fair-skinned person, or even have fair-skinned children is remarkable in our country and in the process we marginalise all those who are dusky, or dark-skinned.
This film also revolves around two sisters, Pinky (Sulagna Panigrahi) and Bulbul (Khusboo Gupta), one being fair and the other dark.
Pinky, the one who’s fair, checks all the boxes for being pretty and desirable,...
Cinematography: Gagandeep Singh. Music: Arvind /Lyton and Chintu Saarthak Kalla.
Rating: ****
One could have an eye operation for better eyesight, but not for better attitude. This one is a special movie that highlights the plight of dark-skinned young women who are oppressed and insulted with subtle jibes about their skin colour.
India is obsessed with fairness, despite being a dark-skinned nation. The unprecedented race to be fair, marry a fair-skinned person, or even have fair-skinned children is remarkable in our country and in the process we marginalise all those who are dusky, or dark-skinned.
This film also revolves around two sisters, Pinky (Sulagna Panigrahi) and Bulbul (Khusboo Gupta), one being fair and the other dark.
Pinky, the one who’s fair, checks all the boxes for being pretty and desirable,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has revealed the 10 participants chosen for its inaugural Breakthrough India initiative.
A jury of industry experts including actor Anupam Kher, Netflix India chief Monika Shergill, filmmaker Mira Nair and producer Siddharth Roy Kapur selected 10 of the most promising talent from the film, games and television industries in India, double the number previously announced, due to the sheer number of quality applicants.
The participants include writer/producer Akshay Singh (“The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountainâ€.); writer/director Arun Karthick (“Nasirâ€.); cinematographer Jay Pinak Oza (“Gully Boyâ€.); composer Karthikeya Murthy (“Kd (A) Karuppuduraiâ€.); actor Palomi Ghosh (“Nachom-ia Kumpasarâ€.); writer/director Renu Savant (“The Ebb Tideâ€.); game developer and art director shruti Ghosh (“Raji- An Ancient Epicâ€.); writer/director/editor Sumit Purohit (“Scam 1992â€.); actor Tanya Maniktala (“A Suitable Boyâ€.); and director Vikram Singh (“Elephants In My Backyardâ€.).
The participants will receive one-to-one mentoring,...
A jury of industry experts including actor Anupam Kher, Netflix India chief Monika Shergill, filmmaker Mira Nair and producer Siddharth Roy Kapur selected 10 of the most promising talent from the film, games and television industries in India, double the number previously announced, due to the sheer number of quality applicants.
The participants include writer/producer Akshay Singh (“The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountainâ€.); writer/director Arun Karthick (“Nasirâ€.); cinematographer Jay Pinak Oza (“Gully Boyâ€.); composer Karthikeya Murthy (“Kd (A) Karuppuduraiâ€.); actor Palomi Ghosh (“Nachom-ia Kumpasarâ€.); writer/director Renu Savant (“The Ebb Tideâ€.); game developer and art director shruti Ghosh (“Raji- An Ancient Epicâ€.); writer/director/editor Sumit Purohit (“Scam 1992â€.); actor Tanya Maniktala (“A Suitable Boyâ€.); and director Vikram Singh (“Elephants In My Backyardâ€.).
The participants will receive one-to-one mentoring,...
- 6/10/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Line-up includes new projects from Onir, Anjali Menon, Shyam Bora and Haobam Paban Kumar.
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), has announced the 21 projects selected for the Co-production Market (Cpm) of its 2020 edition, which will take place online next month after being postponed from its usual November slot.
The line-up includes projects in 17 South Asian languages originating in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as co-productions with Canada, China, Netherlands and France.
International collaborations include Onir’s We Are, co-produced by India’s Anticlock Films and Canada’s Fae Pictures; India-Netherlands collaboration Dengue,...
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), has announced the 21 projects selected for the Co-production Market (Cpm) of its 2020 edition, which will take place online next month after being postponed from its usual November slot.
The line-up includes projects in 17 South Asian languages originating in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as co-productions with Canada, China, Netherlands and France.
International collaborations include Onir’s We Are, co-produced by India’s Anticlock Films and Canada’s Fae Pictures; India-Netherlands collaboration Dengue,...
- 12/21/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
‘Buoyancy’.
Two Australian films – Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy and Daniel Gordon’s feature documentary The Australian Dream – are nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Some 37 films for 22 countries are nominated for the 13th iteration of the awards, which will be presented in Brisbane in November. Overall, films from China received the most nominations; 13 in total across seven films – the country is represented in all but one category.
Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son (Di Jiu Tian Chang) leads the tally with nominations across six categories: actor (Wang Jingchun), actress (Yong Mei), screenplay, cinematography (Kim Hyunseok), directing (Wang Xiaoshuai) and Best Feature Film.
Fellow nominees for Best Feature Film are Pema Tseden’s Balloon; Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain and Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or winning Parasite.
Announced today alongside the nominations was the Asia Pacific Screen Forum,...
Two Australian films – Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy and Daniel Gordon’s feature documentary The Australian Dream – are nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Some 37 films for 22 countries are nominated for the 13th iteration of the awards, which will be presented in Brisbane in November. Overall, films from China received the most nominations; 13 in total across seven films – the country is represented in all but one category.
Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son (Di Jiu Tian Chang) leads the tally with nominations across six categories: actor (Wang Jingchun), actress (Yong Mei), screenplay, cinematography (Kim Hyunseok), directing (Wang Xiaoshuai) and Best Feature Film.
Fellow nominees for Best Feature Film are Pema Tseden’s Balloon; Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain and Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or winning Parasite.
Announced today alongside the nominations was the Asia Pacific Screen Forum,...
- 10/16/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
U.K.-based sales agent Alief has picked up world rights to two independent films that will play later this month in the India Gold section of the Mumbai Film Festival. Both are by first-time directors.
Kabir Chowdhry’s experimental “Mehsampur” is a mix of fiction, documentary and biopic, that kicks off with the murder of Punjabi folk singer Amar Singh Chamkila. The film had its premiere in Sydney in June. Chowdhry was creative producer of 2016’s “Hotel Salvation,” which played at the Venice and Busan festivals.
Ridham Janves’s ethno-mystery feature debut “The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain” gets its world premiere in Mumbai. It tells the tale of a rescue mission after a plane crashes on sacred ground, and its pilot is found by an old shepherd.
The world sales deal was struck between Alief and the films’ Indian production company, Dark Matter Pictures, headed by producer-writer Akshay Singh...
Kabir Chowdhry’s experimental “Mehsampur” is a mix of fiction, documentary and biopic, that kicks off with the murder of Punjabi folk singer Amar Singh Chamkila. The film had its premiere in Sydney in June. Chowdhry was creative producer of 2016’s “Hotel Salvation,” which played at the Venice and Busan festivals.
Ridham Janves’s ethno-mystery feature debut “The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain” gets its world premiere in Mumbai. It tells the tale of a rescue mission after a plane crashes on sacred ground, and its pilot is found by an old shepherd.
The world sales deal was struck between Alief and the films’ Indian production company, Dark Matter Pictures, headed by producer-writer Akshay Singh...
- 10/6/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
London 22 June – 6.15pm Picturehouse Central, 23 June – 8.30pm Cineworld Wembley
One of the pleasures of film festivals is the exposure to films that one might not normally have access to, or that sit a little bit outside one’s wheelhouse. Director Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s Mehsampur traces the journey of filmmaker Devrath, who heads to Punjab to conduct research for a film he wants to make about the once popular duo.
The real world and the fictional one collide, lines between the two are blurred, as filmmaker Chowdhry follows filmmaker Devrath, a fictional filmmaker making contact with real life figures in Ludhiana who knew the controversial singer, such as Chamkila’s manager, Kesar Singh Tikki, his dhokla player, Lal Chand, and Surinder Sonia – who sang duets with Chamkila before he eventually teamed up with Amarjot. Devrath seeks these people out, but we realize he really hasn’t done much homework. When...
One of the pleasures of film festivals is the exposure to films that one might not normally have access to, or that sit a little bit outside one’s wheelhouse. Director Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s Mehsampur traces the journey of filmmaker Devrath, who heads to Punjab to conduct research for a film he wants to make about the once popular duo.
The real world and the fictional one collide, lines between the two are blurred, as filmmaker Chowdhry follows filmmaker Devrath, a fictional filmmaker making contact with real life figures in Ludhiana who knew the controversial singer, such as Chamkila’s manager, Kesar Singh Tikki, his dhokla player, Lal Chand, and Surinder Sonia – who sang duets with Chamkila before he eventually teamed up with Amarjot. Devrath seeks these people out, but we realize he really hasn’t done much homework. When...
- 6/21/2018
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
Mumbai, Sep 20: Actor Gulshan Grover is thankful to producer T.P. Aggarwal for buying the distribution rights of "Baat Bann Gayi" and releasing it under his banner.
Co-produced by Sayed Asif Jah and Megha Agarwal, "Baat Bann Gayi" is a comedy and also features Ali Fazal, Anisa, Amrita Raichand, Razzak Khan and Akshay Singh.
"Baat Bann Gayi", which is coming out Oct 11, will see Ali Fazal and Gulshan in double roles.
"We made a small budget film. T.P. Aggarwal (producer) saw the film and bought all India distribution rights of the film. He is distributing the film and the film has got a kind of validation now,".
Co-produced by Sayed Asif Jah and Megha Agarwal, "Baat Bann Gayi" is a comedy and also features Ali Fazal, Anisa, Amrita Raichand, Razzak Khan and Akshay Singh.
"Baat Bann Gayi", which is coming out Oct 11, will see Ali Fazal and Gulshan in double roles.
"We made a small budget film. T.P. Aggarwal (producer) saw the film and bought all India distribution rights of the film. He is distributing the film and the film has got a kind of validation now,".
- 9/20/2013
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
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