Valladolid, Spain – The Valladolid Intl. Film Festival (Seminci), the truest event dedicated to international arthouse cinema on Spain’s festival calendar, capped off eight days of screenings, press conferences and roundtables by handing out awards on Saturday evening at the Spanish city’s historic Calderon Theater. The evening’s big winners: Wang Quan’an’s “Öndög” and Karim Aïnouz’s “The Invisible Life.”
After premiering in competition at February’s Berlinale, Quan’an’s Mongolian dramedy “Öndög” has hit its stride eight months later scoring a best film award at last week’s Ghent Intl. Film Festival before repeating the feat at last night’s closing gala along with a best cinematography award for its Beijing-based French cinematographer Aymerick Pilarski.
Set on the seemingly endless planes of Mongolia, the film follows a rookie officer and a veteran shepard tasked with protecting a crime scene from harsh elements and harsher wolves.
After premiering in competition at February’s Berlinale, Quan’an’s Mongolian dramedy “Öndög” has hit its stride eight months later scoring a best film award at last week’s Ghent Intl. Film Festival before repeating the feat at last night’s closing gala along with a best cinematography award for its Beijing-based French cinematographer Aymerick Pilarski.
Set on the seemingly endless planes of Mongolia, the film follows a rookie officer and a veteran shepard tasked with protecting a crime scene from harsh elements and harsher wolves.
- 10/27/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
“I don’t know what my legacy will be,” says porn star turned Bollywood starlet Sunny Leone near the end of Dilip Mehta’s documentary Mostly Sunny. Leone acknowledges that her greatest strength isn’t acting, isn’t dancing – it is, as she bluntly puts it, the ability to “turn a quarter into a dollar.”
Leone is a subject that seems perfectly tailor-made for a documentary about her transition and acceptance – even if that acceptance is frequently grudging – by the Bollywood film fraternity.
Leone’s public persona is documented and well-known. Mehta sets the facts out for us, facts that pretty much anyone with a passing familiarity with Leone knows: that she’s the most searched Indian personality on YouTube; that Osama bin Laden was obsessed with her. “Who doesn’t know Sunny Leone?”, giggles taxi driver Gurpeet Singh Bawa in the films opening moments.
The frustration, of course, is...
Leone is a subject that seems perfectly tailor-made for a documentary about her transition and acceptance – even if that acceptance is frequently grudging – by the Bollywood film fraternity.
Leone’s public persona is documented and well-known. Mehta sets the facts out for us, facts that pretty much anyone with a passing familiarity with Leone knows: that she’s the most searched Indian personality on YouTube; that Osama bin Laden was obsessed with her. “Who doesn’t know Sunny Leone?”, giggles taxi driver Gurpeet Singh Bawa in the films opening moments.
The frustration, of course, is...
- 1/14/2017
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
Filmmaker Dilip Mehta’s documentary Mostly Sunny is the unbelievable but true story of Sunny Leone — a small town Ontario girl who ran away to Hollywood, became a leading porn star and then morphed that notoriety into a major career as a Bollywood actress. As a result, Leone is the most Googled celebrity in India. It was a remarkable double reinvention for a tiny powerhouse born Karenjit Kaur Vohra in a conservative Sikh Punjabi home in Sarnia, Ontario. We spoke with Mehta in Toronto about what happened after the film was made, the pains of reinvention and his experiences working...read more...
- 1/12/2017
- by Anne Brodie
- Monsters and Critics
Adult film actress Sunny Leone, a.k.a Karenjit Kaur Vohra, has more than 100 million fans, over 20 million followers on social media, and is India’s most Googled celebrity. But the new documentary “Mostly Sunny” chronicles Leone’s journey from a Canadian-born, American bred adult film actress into one of Bollywood’s biggest stars. The film exposes the conflict between traditional cultural values held by immigrant parents and the lifestyle choices made by their children within the influence of Western society. Determined to succeed as a mainstream actress, Sunny is unapologetic as she challenges the modern notions of independence, celebrity and feminism while forcing India to confront its paradoxical relationship with sex. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
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The film is directed by internationally known photographer Dilip Mehta. He previously directed the 2008 documentary “The Forgotten Woman,...
Read More: The 2016 IndieWire Tiff Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
The film is directed by internationally known photographer Dilip Mehta. He previously directed the 2008 documentary “The Forgotten Woman,...
- 1/6/2017
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Like it or not, the Sunny Leone documentary Mostly Sunny directed by photographer-filmmaker Dilip Mehta will soon release in India. Sources say Sunny and her husband Daniel Weber did “everything within their power” to stop the film from being played in India. It isn’t very clear what the couple’s objection to the documentary is (theyRead More
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- 11/17/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
The Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival with Star is less than a month away from offering the city a movie extravaganza unlike any other. In its 18th edition, the festival announced its stellar line-up for the year at its annual press conference held on Thursday, 29th September in Mumbai. The festival is set to kick off on 20th October. The press conference began with the announcement of the festival’s new brand identity.
Jio Mami with Star, Festival Co-Chairperson, Kiran Rao said, “It’s been a very exciting year for the Academy. Firstly, we are now a year around presence. We launched the Mami Film Club in May with a conversation between Sir Ian McKellen and Aamir. We’ve followed that up with India premieres of films such as Brahman Naman and India in a Day. The Academy is committed to bringing you great film content and conversations not just...
Jio Mami with Star, Festival Co-Chairperson, Kiran Rao said, “It’s been a very exciting year for the Academy. Firstly, we are now a year around presence. We launched the Mami Film Club in May with a conversation between Sir Ian McKellen and Aamir. We’ve followed that up with India premieres of films such as Brahman Naman and India in a Day. The Academy is committed to bringing you great film content and conversations not just...
- 10/1/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Sunny Leone's boycott of the premiere of the documentary on her life 'Mostly Sunny' has triggered of a 'pain' reaction for the docu's director Dilip Mehta.
Belying Sunny's husband Daniel Weber's claim that they couldn't make it to Toronto for the premier on account of a family function in New York, Mehta claims Sunny refused to attend the premiere after Dilip refused to cut some shots from the documentary on her request.
Says Dilip, "The final cut is the director's cut and that's how the film will remain. There's no compelling reason to compromise the film. The changes they are asking for, will weaken not only my vision but also the truthfulness of the documentary."
When asked to elaborate on the cuts that Sunny and her husband wanted, Dilip says, "It's just that now she appears to be self-conscious of certain partial frontal nudity scenes! And, that's...
Belying Sunny's husband Daniel Weber's claim that they couldn't make it to Toronto for the premier on account of a family function in New York, Mehta claims Sunny refused to attend the premiere after Dilip refused to cut some shots from the documentary on her request.
Says Dilip, "The final cut is the director's cut and that's how the film will remain. There's no compelling reason to compromise the film. The changes they are asking for, will weaken not only my vision but also the truthfulness of the documentary."
When asked to elaborate on the cuts that Sunny and her husband wanted, Dilip says, "It's just that now she appears to be self-conscious of certain partial frontal nudity scenes! And, that's...
- 9/20/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
<img class="size-full wp-image-656254 aligncenter" src="http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1151790252.jpg" alt="1151790252" width="500" height="277" /> Sunny Leone's boycott of the premiere of the documentary on her life 'Mostly Sunny' has triggered of a 'pain' reaction for the docu's director Dilip Mehta. Belying Sunny's husband Daniel Weber's claim that they couldn't make it to Toronto for the premier on account of a family function in New York, Mehta claims Sunny refused to attend the premiere after Dilip refused to cut some shots from the documentary on her request. Says Dilip, "The final cut is the director's cut and that's how the film will remain. There's no compelling reason to compromise the film. The changes they are asking for, will weaken not only my vision but also the truthfulness of the documentary." When asked to elaborate on the cuts that Sunny and her husband wanted, Dilip says, "It's just that now she appears to be self-conscious of certain partial frontal nudity scenes! And, that's...
- 9/20/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
<img class="size-full wp-image-656254 aligncenter" src="http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1151790252.jpg" alt="1151790252" width="500" height="277" /> Sunny Leone's boycott of the premiere of the documentary on her life 'Mostly Sunny' has triggered of a 'pain' reaction for the docu's director Dilip Mehta. Belying Sunny's husband Daniel Weber's claim that they couldn't make it to Toronto for the premier on account of a family function in New York, Mehta claims Sunny refused to attend the premiere after Dilip refused to cut some shots from the documentary on her request. Says Dilip, "The final cut is the director's cut and that's how the film will remain. There's no compelling reason to compromise the film. The changes they are asking for, will weaken not only my vision but also the truthfulness of the documentary." When asked to elaborate on the cuts that Sunny and her husband wanted, Dilip says, "It's just that now she appears to be self-conscious of certain partial frontal nudity scenes! And, that's...
- 9/20/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Deepa Mehta came quietly to Delhi, shot her film Anatomy Of Violence on the gruesome gang rape in a moving bus in 2012 on the streets and went back to Toronto. The film is being premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. Deepa's take on the gruesome crime that shook our nation's conscience attempts to look at the crime from the other side. The film examines the antecedents of the rapists, their family life and their upbringing which engendered such brutality. Significantly the heinous crime is not shown on screen at all. The whole idea behind this tormenting take on the crime against humanity is to explore the psychology that results in such barbaric deeds. Anatomy Of Violence has been made almost entirely with theatre actors from Delhi in the cast. The only known face in the film is that of Seema Biswas who has been seen to brilliant...
- 9/16/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-655581 " src="http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Anatomy-Of-Violence.jpg" alt="Anatomy Of Violence" width="502" height="761" /> Deepa Mehta came quietly to Delhi, shot her film <i>Anatomy Of Violence</i> on the gruesome gang rape in a moving bus in 2012 on the streets and went back to Toronto. The film is being premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. Deepa's take on the gruesome crime that shook our nation's conscience attempts to look at the crime from the other side. The film examines the antecedents of the rapists, their family life and their upbringing which engendered such brutality. Significantly the heinous crime is not shown on screen at all. The whole idea behind this tormenting take on the crime against humanity is to explore the psychology that results in such barbaric deeds. <i>Anatomy Of Violence</i> has been made almost entirely with theatre actors from Delhi in the cast. The only known face in the film is that of Seema Biswas who has been seen to brilliant...
- 9/16/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-655581 " src="http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Anatomy-Of-Violence.jpg" alt="Anatomy Of Violence" width="502" height="761" /> Deepa Mehta came quietly to Delhi, shot her film <i>Anatomy Of Violence</i> on the gruesome gang rape in a moving bus in 2012 on the streets and went back to Toronto. The film is being premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. Deepa's take on the gruesome crime that shook our nation's conscience attempts to look at the crime from the other side. The film examines the antecedents of the rapists, their family life and their upbringing which engendered such brutality. Significantly the heinous crime is not shown on screen at all. The whole idea behind this tormenting take on the crime against humanity is to explore the psychology that results in such barbaric deeds. <i>Anatomy Of Violence</i> has been made almost entirely with theatre actors from Delhi in the cast. The only known face in the film is that of Seema Biswas who has been seen to brilliant...
- 9/16/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Sunny Leone failed to keep her appointment with what was perhaps the most glorious chapter of her career in the entertainment business: the premiere of the documentary Mostly Sunny on her rise from an adult-content star to Bollywood actress at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff). The 2-hour documentary directed by ace-photographer Dilip Mehta was apparently done with the full approval and participation of Sunny and her husband Daniel Weber. But now the documentary seems to have caused some amount of heartburn in the Leone camp. Says a source from Toronto, "The premiere of the Sunny Leone documentary was to be held on Sunday night at the Tiff at 10.30 pm. Dilip Mehta and his sister Deepa Mehta had even organized a lunch in honour of Sunny Leone which she was to attend along with her husband. But she didn't turn up for the lunch or the premiere in the evening.
- 9/13/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Dilip Mehta's extensively researched documentary on Sunny Leone premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. Says Mehta excitedly, "My film Mostly Sunny celebrates Sunny Leone's extraordinary journey from porn to dizzy heights of Bollywood. The World Premiere of which is on September 11, at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival." Dilip was approached by a Canadian production house for the documentary on Sunny Leone whom he admits he knew little about. "My knowledge of her, and her antecedents were sketchy at best, I knew the storyline was riveting .It was a story that was compelling and one that had to be told." Dilip met Sunny about two years ago. "I had already said yes to the Producer and to size each other up Sunny, her husband Daniel and I met at the Juhu Marriott in Mumbai. Our lunch meeting was a prolonged one where Sunny and I both vented...
- 9/12/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
A selection of films from the 2016 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with films by Jim Jarmusch, Maren Ade, Tom Ford, Paul Verhoeven, Damien Chazelle, and many more.Opening NIGHTThe Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)GALASDeepwater HorizonArrival (Denis Villeneuve)Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)The Headhunter's Calling (Mark Williams)The Journey Is the Destination (Bronwen Hughes)Jt + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)Lbj (Rob Reiner)Lion (Garth Davis)Loving (Jeff Nichols)A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona)Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski)Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)The Rolling Stones of Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (Paul Dugdale)The Secret Scripture (Jim Sheridan)Snowden (Oliver Stone)Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann)Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)A United Kingdom (Amma Astante)Special PRESENTATIONSLa La LandThe Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon)All I See Is You (Marc Forster)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor)Asura: The City of...
- 8/12/2016
- MUBI
The third cascade of world premieres in 15 days flowed from the headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday as programmers revealed their Midnight Madness, Tiff Docs, Vanguard, Tiff Cinematheque and Short Cuts selections.
This week’s offering includes Ben Wheatley’s all-star gangster thriller Free Fire, which opens Midnight Madness one year after the premiere of the British auteur’s High-Rise; fast-rising Chadwick Boseman in revenge thriller Message From The King in Vanguard and a Tiff Docs strand that features climate change documentary The Turning Point, featuring and produced by Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18.
Wp = world premiere, IP = international premiere, Nap = North American premiere, Cp = Canadian premiere, Tp = Toronto premiere.
Midnight Madness
Ben Wheatley’s all-star gunfight Free Fire starring Brie Larson, Armie Hammer and Cillian Murphy will open the section, which includes Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Rats, Adam Wingard’s Blair Witch, André Øvredal’s [link...
This week’s offering includes Ben Wheatley’s all-star gangster thriller Free Fire, which opens Midnight Madness one year after the premiere of the British auteur’s High-Rise; fast-rising Chadwick Boseman in revenge thriller Message From The King in Vanguard and a Tiff Docs strand that features climate change documentary The Turning Point, featuring and produced by Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18.
Wp = world premiere, IP = international premiere, Nap = North American premiere, Cp = Canadian premiere, Tp = Toronto premiere.
Midnight Madness
Ben Wheatley’s all-star gunfight Free Fire starring Brie Larson, Armie Hammer and Cillian Murphy will open the section, which includes Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Rats, Adam Wingard’s Blair Witch, André Øvredal’s [link...
- 8/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival has nearly completed its slate announcement this year — expect a few stragglers to be announced in the coming days, but this is about the size of it — rounding out its lineup with today’s announcement of its Docs, Midnight Madness, Vanguard and Tiff Cinematheque picks. And what a group this is, including plenty of returning favorites and some very exciting new names.
Tiff’s Docs section features a collection of works from award-winning directors including Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Leonardo DiCaprio even pops up for a “rousing call to action on climate change” in “The Turning Point,” made in collaboration with Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens and already picked up by National Geographic.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The beloved Midnight Madness section offers...
Tiff’s Docs section features a collection of works from award-winning directors including Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Leonardo DiCaprio even pops up for a “rousing call to action on climate change” in “The Turning Point,” made in collaboration with Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens and already picked up by National Geographic.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The beloved Midnight Madness section offers...
- 8/9/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After a promising initial line-up, the Toronto International Film Festival has delivered more titles with their full Canadian slate. Among the line-up is Xavier Dolan‘s It’s Only the End of the World, Bruce MacDonald‘s new feature Weirdos, Deepa Mehta‘s Anatomy of Violence, as well as Two Lovers and a Bear, starring Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan, which we have the first trailer for today.
We said in our review from Cannes, “Kim Nguyen’s Two Lovers and a Bear is a film that suffers from a bit of an identity crisis. Like an indie playlist stuck on constant shuffle, unapologetically reveling in a sort of manic unclassifiable genre. This isn’t always necessarily a bad thing, but, for some reason, Nguyen’s scattershot tonal shifts — which hop between a romance on the rocks; a self-serious study of grieving; and a surreal buddy comedy — can prove quite jarring.
We said in our review from Cannes, “Kim Nguyen’s Two Lovers and a Bear is a film that suffers from a bit of an identity crisis. Like an indie playlist stuck on constant shuffle, unapologetically reveling in a sort of manic unclassifiable genre. This isn’t always necessarily a bad thing, but, for some reason, Nguyen’s scattershot tonal shifts — which hop between a romance on the rocks; a self-serious study of grieving; and a surreal buddy comedy — can prove quite jarring.
- 8/4/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A heavyweight roster of world premieres from the leading lights of Canada’s film industry will grace the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
- 8/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A heavyweight roster of world premieres from the leading lights of Canada’s film industry will grace the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
- 8/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced an additional selection of feature picks — all falling under the banner of Canadian-made films, appropriately enough — along with their Tiff Rising Stars group, the recipient of the Len Blum Residency and a selection of Canadian shorts. Major programming standouts including Xavier Dolan’s Cannes Grand Prix winner “It’s Only the End of the World” and Nathan Morlando’s Cannes debut “Mean Dreams.” Other films of note include April Mullen’s “Below Her Mouth” and Kim Nguyen’s Dane DeHaan-starring “Two Lovers and a Bear.”
This year’s Tiff Rising Stars — four Canadian actors who will take part in a series of specialized programming organized by Tiff’s Industry team — include Jared Abrahamson, Grace Glowicki, Mylène Mackay and Sophie Nélisse. Additional international Rising Stars will be announced in the coming weeks.
Screenwriter and filmmaker Andrew Cividino is the 2016 Len Blum Resident. Cividino,...
This year’s Tiff Rising Stars — four Canadian actors who will take part in a series of specialized programming organized by Tiff’s Industry team — include Jared Abrahamson, Grace Glowicki, Mylène Mackay and Sophie Nélisse. Additional international Rising Stars will be announced in the coming weeks.
Screenwriter and filmmaker Andrew Cividino is the 2016 Len Blum Resident. Cividino,...
- 8/3/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sunny Leone, who after making her debut with Jism 2, fast went on to become one of the most sought after actress in Bollywood. However, the porn star turned actress has always been under scrutiny for her past identity of being an adult entertainment star. Never having been known to shy away from the said scrutiny, we now hear that Sunny Leone will soon be featuring in a biopic on herself.
In fact, we hear that Abhishek Sharma, known for his films like Tere Bin Laden and The Shaukeens, will be helming the project. While this won't be the first film based on Sunny's life, the first being Canadian photojournalist Dilip Mehta's documentary Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, Sharma's film will be a more mainstream feature instead of a documentary.
Though details of the said project are being kept under wraps, we hear...
In fact, we hear that Abhishek Sharma, known for his films like Tere Bin Laden and The Shaukeens, will be helming the project. While this won't be the first film based on Sunny's life, the first being Canadian photojournalist Dilip Mehta's documentary Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, Sharma's film will be a more mainstream feature instead of a documentary.
Though details of the said project are being kept under wraps, we hear...
- 7/26/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Sunny Leone's career is about to acquire another level of sexiness. The documentary titled Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy that film filmmaker Dilip Mehta has made on her life is about to get a full and formal worldwide release. Says Dilip, "It would be a worldwide theatrical release. It's a feature-length documentary. Sunny is endearing, warm, candid and emotional and takes one through her life trajectory with remarkable openness and confidence." The documentary happened by sheer chance when a Canadian film company approached Dilip to direct a feature-length documentary on Sunny Leone. Recalling his first meeting with Ms. Leone Dilip says, "Sunny, her husband Daniel and I met at the Juhu Marriott in Mumbai over a year ago. From the moment Sunny came into the lobby and all the way to the coffee shop at the lower level all eyes were focused on her. She has a presence that commands attention.
- 12/10/2015
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Talking about the nitty-gritty of her life without any inhibitions, Sunny Leone has never shied away from her past. Her straight forward nature and her long journey from a porn star to a Bollywood actress inspired Dilip Mehta to make a documentary based on her life. The film is in the making and Daniel Weber, Sunny's husband, who is equally excited about this, revealed that the said documentary will premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival held in the Us, next year. Sunny Leone is an Indian, born and brought up in Canada, who ventured into porn industry during her college days, where she met her husband Daniel Weber. While the two run a production house Sun Lust in Los Angeles, Sunny entered the world of Indian Entertainment industry with the controversial reality show 'Bigg Boss', wherein she bagged her first Bollywood film Jism 2. As of now,...
- 4/4/2015
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Once you take some distance from its discomforting failures, the film is a visual treat as Deepa Mehta’s films have been, writes Shekhar Deshpande
When one of the most accomplished writers of our time, whose language, imagery and allegorical deft have transformed many a social crises into figurative labyrinths agrees to work with one of the formidable woman directors with a strong portfolio of socially oriented films to have captured liberal imagination, one would expect some cinematic magic to make a big impression. Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children promises much before the theater goes dark. But as the end credits roll in, you are left with a puzzling question: why did the two truly cosmopolitan and diasporic creative artists of our time squander so much so easily?
Midnight’s Children may be a good pictured novel for the post-Slumdog age in which images themselves become...
When one of the most accomplished writers of our time, whose language, imagery and allegorical deft have transformed many a social crises into figurative labyrinths agrees to work with one of the formidable woman directors with a strong portfolio of socially oriented films to have captured liberal imagination, one would expect some cinematic magic to make a big impression. Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children promises much before the theater goes dark. But as the end credits roll in, you are left with a puzzling question: why did the two truly cosmopolitan and diasporic creative artists of our time squander so much so easily?
Midnight’s Children may be a good pictured novel for the post-Slumdog age in which images themselves become...
- 4/30/2013
- by Shekhar Deshpande
- DearCinema.com
Meek's Cutoff (PG)
(Kelly Reichardt, 2010, Us) Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson, Paul Dano, Will Patton. 102 mins
Take away the epic music, the widescreen vistas, the male chauvinism, the gunfights, and just about every other Hollywood western convention, and you get this sparse, haunting evocation of American pioneering – which is probably far closer to how the west was really won. This group of settlers breaks away from the Oregon trail only to wander through an uncharted desert limbo in a trance of thirst, tension and uncertainty. Putting women's roles and the hardships of frontier survival very much to the fore, the result is a western unlike any other.
Your Highness (15)
(David Gordon Green, 2011, Us) Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman. 102 mins
A medieval stoner-com, dude! Which sounds like a great idea if you're baked, but not if you remember how Year One, that caveman stoner-com, turned out.
Scream 4 (15)
(Wes Craven,...
(Kelly Reichardt, 2010, Us) Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson, Paul Dano, Will Patton. 102 mins
Take away the epic music, the widescreen vistas, the male chauvinism, the gunfights, and just about every other Hollywood western convention, and you get this sparse, haunting evocation of American pioneering – which is probably far closer to how the west was really won. This group of settlers breaks away from the Oregon trail only to wander through an uncharted desert limbo in a trance of thirst, tension and uncertainty. Putting women's roles and the hardships of frontier survival very much to the fore, the result is a western unlike any other.
Your Highness (15)
(David Gordon Green, 2011, Us) Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman. 102 mins
A medieval stoner-com, dude! Which sounds like a great idea if you're baked, but not if you remember how Year One, that caveman stoner-com, turned out.
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- 4/15/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
A Canadian-Indian comedy that has gentle but obvious things to say about the clash of cultures
Award-winning photojournalist Dilip Mehta has dipped his toe into feature film-making, with sister Deepa alongside: they have co-written this unexceptional comedy that resembles Deepa's Canadian-Indian hybrids such as Bollywood/Hollywood rather than the heartfelt social-conscience dramas Water and Earth. This revolves around a cook (Seema Biswas) who artfully dupes her employers at the Canadian high commission in Delhi out of a few hundred rupees here and there; the arrival of a new diplomatic family, containing house-husband chef Don McKellar, is the trigger for some gently obvious cross-cultural lessons on both sides. Biswas ages up to play a standard-issue Indian granny figure – her groundbreaking portrayal of Phoolan Devi in Bandit Queen seems a very long time ago.
Rating: 2/5
ComedyDramaCrimeWorld cinemaAndrew Pulver
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Award-winning photojournalist Dilip Mehta has dipped his toe into feature film-making, with sister Deepa alongside: they have co-written this unexceptional comedy that resembles Deepa's Canadian-Indian hybrids such as Bollywood/Hollywood rather than the heartfelt social-conscience dramas Water and Earth. This revolves around a cook (Seema Biswas) who artfully dupes her employers at the Canadian high commission in Delhi out of a few hundred rupees here and there; the arrival of a new diplomatic family, containing house-husband chef Don McKellar, is the trigger for some gently obvious cross-cultural lessons on both sides. Biswas ages up to play a standard-issue Indian granny figure – her groundbreaking portrayal of Phoolan Devi in Bandit Queen seems a very long time ago.
Rating: 2/5
ComedyDramaCrimeWorld cinemaAndrew Pulver
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- 4/14/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Onir’s I Am will open the 13th edition of the London Asian Film festival which will take place from March 18-27, 2011.
The other films that will be screened in the festival are Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella, Murali Subramani’s Natural Selection, Sona Jain’s For Real, Rakesh Mehta’s Khudakhushi, Avantika Hari’s Land Gold Women, Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live, Laurens Corneliz Postma’s The Interview, S M Raju’s Varnam, Rajeev Patil’s Jogwa, Sundaran’s Thittukudi, Andrew Piddington’s Killing of John Lennon, Sander Francken’s BardSongs, Jeet Matharru’s Women from the East, Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, Nayan Padrai’s When Harry tries to Marry and Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s Pankh.
Ajay Naidu’s Ashes will be the closing film of the festival.
The short films which will compete in the festival are : Wild Things by Sandeep Sharma, The Invigilator by Manesh Nesaratnam,...
The other films that will be screened in the festival are Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella, Murali Subramani’s Natural Selection, Sona Jain’s For Real, Rakesh Mehta’s Khudakhushi, Avantika Hari’s Land Gold Women, Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live, Laurens Corneliz Postma’s The Interview, S M Raju’s Varnam, Rajeev Patil’s Jogwa, Sundaran’s Thittukudi, Andrew Piddington’s Killing of John Lennon, Sander Francken’s BardSongs, Jeet Matharru’s Women from the East, Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, Nayan Padrai’s When Harry tries to Marry and Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s Pankh.
Ajay Naidu’s Ashes will be the closing film of the festival.
The short films which will compete in the festival are : Wild Things by Sandeep Sharma, The Invigilator by Manesh Nesaratnam,...
- 3/2/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s The Man Beyond The Bridge (Paltadacho Munis) won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 8th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella receiving an Honorable Mention in the category.
Nishta Jain’s At My Doorstep was named winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary and Deepa Bhatia’s Nero’S Guests received Honorable Mention. Ritesh Batra’s Gareeb Nawaz’S Taxi won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film with Anjoo Khosla’s Wahid’S Mobile Bookstore receiving an Honorable Mention.
Audience Choice Awards went to Paresh Mokashi’s Harishchandrachi Factory for Narrative, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet’S Struggle For Freedom for Documentary and Terrie Samundra’s Kunjo for the Short Film category.
Nishta Jain’s At My Doorstep was named winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary and Deepa Bhatia’s Nero’S Guests received Honorable Mention. Ritesh Batra’s Gareeb Nawaz’S Taxi won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film with Anjoo Khosla’s Wahid’S Mobile Bookstore receiving an Honorable Mention.
Audience Choice Awards went to Paresh Mokashi’s Harishchandrachi Factory for Narrative, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet’S Struggle For Freedom for Documentary and Terrie Samundra’s Kunjo for the Short Film category.
- 4/27/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Director Dilip Mehta is "gratified" with the overwhelming response to his film Cooking With Stella at the ongoing Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. He says the audiences "fully understood the many layers in his film". "The gala opening of the festival with our film at Los Angeles was a smashing success," Mehta told Ians from Los Angeles. Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles started Tuesday and will close on Sunday. "It was a sell-out screening and the party that followed at the Cabana Club was unbelievably riveting. The entire venue was packed to full capacity with great India cuisine and the bartenders ...
- 4/24/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
"The Gala opening of the festival with our film at Los Angeles was a smashing success." So says Dilip Mehta, the director of Cooking With Stella. Speaking from La, Mehta says, "It was a sell-out screening and the party that followed at the Cabana Club was unbelievably riveting. The entire venue was packed to full capacity with great India cuisine and the bartenders kept every glass brimmed." The response to the film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles was overwhelming. Says Mehta, "The huge theatre was packed. The audience was enormously supportive and so fully understood the many layers of our film. Even in the darkness I could make out the smiles and hear the laughter!" After the screening there was chaos. "We were mobbed by strangers following the screening. This is always gratifying because they give honest opinions since they don't have an axe to grind with you.
- 4/23/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
"The Gala opening of the festival with our film at Los Angeles was a smashing success." So says Dilip Mehta, the director of Cooking With Stella. Speaking from La, Mehta says, "It was a sell-out screening and the party that followed at the Cabana Club was unbelievably riveting. The entire venue was packed to full capacity with great India cuisine and the bartenders kept every glass brimmed." The response to the film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles was overwhelming. Says Mehta, "The huge theatre was packed. The audience was enormously supportive and so fully understood the many layers of our film. Even in the darkness I could make out the smiles and hear the laughter!" After the screening there was chaos. "We were mobbed by strangers following the screening. This is always gratifying because they give honest opinions since they don't have an axe to grind with you.
- 4/23/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Mumbai, April 23 – Director Dilip Mehta is ‘gratified’ with the overwhelming response to his film ‘Cooking With Stella’ at the ongoing Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. He says the audiences ‘fully understood the many layers in his film’.
‘The gala opening of the festival with our film at Los Angeles was a smashing success,’ Mehta told Ians from Los Angeles.
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles started Tuesday and.
‘The gala opening of the festival with our film at Los Angeles was a smashing success,’ Mehta told Ians from Los Angeles.
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles started Tuesday and.
- 4/23/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
April 23, 2010: “The Gala opening of the festival with our film at Los Angeles was a smashing success.” So says Dilip Mehta, the director of Cooking With Stella.
Speaking from La, Mehta says, “It was a sellout screening and the party that followed at the Cabana Club was unbelievably riveting. The entire venue was packed to full capacity with great Indian cuisine and the bartenders kept every glass brimmed.”
The response to the film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles was overwhelming.
Says Mehta, “The huge theatre was packed. The audience was enormously supportive and so fully understood the many layers of our film. Even in the darkness I could make out the smiles and and hear.
Speaking from La, Mehta says, “It was a sellout screening and the party that followed at the Cabana Club was unbelievably riveting. The entire venue was packed to full capacity with great Indian cuisine and the bartenders kept every glass brimmed.”
The response to the film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles was overwhelming.
Says Mehta, “The huge theatre was packed. The audience was enormously supportive and so fully understood the many layers of our film. Even in the darkness I could make out the smiles and and hear.
- 4/23/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Cooking with Stella
The lives of house-workers in middle and upper class families in India can easily form a substantial episode in the class formation and struggle in modern capitalism. There are various ways to rationalize having ‘help’ in the house but fewer ways to realize how they see the world they inhabit, let alone they work in. This perspective does not include the long shots of their living quarters from cars, buses or trains and even less the luxurious views offered in documentaries that patronize them. Such struggle may just be captured in documentaries and in efforts that are launched by Ngo’s here and elsewhere. Theirs is a world that demands full class consciousness. Dilip Mehta’s directorial debut, Cooking with Stella, which opened the Los Angeles Film Festival, stands on that thin borderline of invoking their perspective and provoking enough moralization that may occur in a film theater.
The lives of house-workers in middle and upper class families in India can easily form a substantial episode in the class formation and struggle in modern capitalism. There are various ways to rationalize having ‘help’ in the house but fewer ways to realize how they see the world they inhabit, let alone they work in. This perspective does not include the long shots of their living quarters from cars, buses or trains and even less the luxurious views offered in documentaries that patronize them. Such struggle may just be captured in documentaries and in efforts that are launched by Ngo’s here and elsewhere. Theirs is a world that demands full class consciousness. Dilip Mehta’s directorial debut, Cooking with Stella, which opened the Los Angeles Film Festival, stands on that thin borderline of invoking their perspective and provoking enough moralization that may occur in a film theater.
- 4/21/2010
- by Shekhar Deshpande
- DearCinema.com
April 21, 2010: Dilip Mehta’s film Cooking With Stella featuring Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Sriya Saran and Canadian star Don McKellar has taken its culinary theme many steps ahead. The film’s team will now be putting together a book of 103 Indian recipes, one each for every member of the crew.
Director Dilip Mehta says, “It is true. But we are not doing just any ordinary cook book with Indian recipes. Our book would have 103 recipes. That’s the number of cast and crew who worked on the film, each individual’s favorite Indian dish! Don MeKellar and I have already cooked live on Canada.
Director Dilip Mehta says, “It is true. But we are not doing just any ordinary cook book with Indian recipes. Our book would have 103 recipes. That’s the number of cast and crew who worked on the film, each individual’s favorite Indian dish! Don MeKellar and I have already cooked live on Canada.
- 4/21/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
April 19, 2010: The team of Dilip Mehta’s film, Cooking With Stella, is putting together a book of 103 Indian recipes, one each for every member of the crew. The film, which starred Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Sriya Saran and Canadian star Don McKellar, had a culinary theme, as its title suggests.
Director Dilip Mehta confirmed it and stated that the book will feature each cast and crew member’s favorite Indian dish. He has already cooked live on a popular Canada show, Canada Am, where they prepared a recipe from the film.
Dilip asserts that the film isn’t just.
Director Dilip Mehta confirmed it and stated that the book will feature each cast and crew member’s favorite Indian dish. He has already cooked live on a popular Canada show, Canada Am, where they prepared a recipe from the film.
Dilip asserts that the film isn’t just.
- 4/19/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
If one possible future for how we'll watch films involves everyone sitting at home in front of giant televisions, another has to take into account places like the Enzian Theater in Maitland, Fl, base of the Florida Film Festival. The Enzian's a comfy multi-tiered cinema and event space with couches and table seating, a full menu, waitstaff and a bar outside under mossy old oaks, ideal for post-credits chats over cocktails.
It's a place that, like my beloved Alamo Drafthouse in Austin or the Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, Mo (both home to their own annual festivals), is both a film venue and a hangout joint, and sitting down to a screening there is the kind of thing that can have you hoping, by god, maybe there is life in communal moviegoing yet. In tune with the Enzian's dinner-and-a-flick style, the Florida Film Festival, which wraps up on Sunday, has a distinct foodie vibe,...
It's a place that, like my beloved Alamo Drafthouse in Austin or the Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, Mo (both home to their own annual festivals), is both a film venue and a hangout joint, and sitting down to a screening there is the kind of thing that can have you hoping, by god, maybe there is life in communal moviegoing yet. In tune with the Enzian's dinner-and-a-flick style, the Florida Film Festival, which wraps up on Sunday, has a distinct foodie vibe,...
- 4/18/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Dilip Mehta.s film Cooking With Stella, featuring Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Sriya Saran and Canadian star Don McKellar, has taken its culinary theme to the next level. The film.s team is putting together a book of 103 Indian recipes, one each for every member of the crew.Says director Dilip Mehta, .It.s true. Our book, with 103 recipes, will have every individual cast and crew members. favourite Indian dish. Don McKellar and I have already cooked live on Canada Am, a hugely popular show broadcast across Canada. We prepared a recipe from the film..That said, Dilip warns that his film is not just about cooking. .Cooking has been used as a metaphor for the shenanigans that go on in the protagonist Stella.s (Seema Biswas) kitchen. It is almost the subtext of the film. The film, in many ways, is a social satire and by entering the kitchen,...
- 4/18/2010
- Filmicafe
The director’s cut of Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name Is Khan (Mnik) will be screened at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) April 20-25. Dilip Mehta's Cooking With Stella will open the fest. Directed by Karan Johar, Mnik will be released in the Us by Fox Searchlight Pictures May 7. In the film, Shah Rukh has teamed up with Kajol. "Cooking With Stella" that stars Lisa Ray, will have its La premiere at the event. Both the actress and the director will attend the event. "The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is expanding exponentially as both ...
- 4/17/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Los Angeles, April 16 – The director’s cut of Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘My Name Is Khan’ (Mnik) will be screened at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) April 20-25. Dilip Mehta’s ‘Cooking With Stella’ will open the fest.
Directed by Karan Johar, Mnik will be released in the Us by Fox Searchlight Pictures May 7. In the film, Shah Rukh has teamed up with Kajol.
‘Cooking With Stella’ that stars Lisa Ray, will have its La premiere at.
Directed by Karan Johar, Mnik will be released in the Us by Fox Searchlight Pictures May 7. In the film, Shah Rukh has teamed up with Kajol.
‘Cooking With Stella’ that stars Lisa Ray, will have its La premiere at.
- 4/16/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, rapidly growing in prestige, has announced a stunning line-up for the Arclight Hollywood venue, where it runs from 20-25 April. Thirty-three films from five countries will showcase the best in Bollywood and the diaspora to an increasingly broad audience. “As filmmakers of Indian descent forge new relationships in Hollywood, we invite moviegoers and industry professionals to experience our unique and wide ranging program which includes thought-provoking dramas, engaging documentaries, along with a touch of light hearted fare and a taste of Bollywood,” describes executive director Christina Marouda.
Starting the festival will be the delightful Cooking With Stella, directed by Dilip Mehta and with an all-star cast in Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray and Shriya Saran. Bollywood is strongly represented with two of its biggest most-recent hits, Three Idiots and Kaminey; and also a remastered version of Ashes to Ashes (Raakh) with a young Aamir Khan in a revenge movie.
Starting the festival will be the delightful Cooking With Stella, directed by Dilip Mehta and with an all-star cast in Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray and Shriya Saran. Bollywood is strongly represented with two of its biggest most-recent hits, Three Idiots and Kaminey; and also a remastered version of Ashes to Ashes (Raakh) with a young Aamir Khan in a revenge movie.
- 4/5/2010
- Bollyspice
Two of the most critically acclaimed Bollywood films of 2009—'3 Idiots' and 'Kaminey'—will be featured at the 8th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) in April.
The festival, which showcases Indian-related films from around the world, runs from April 20 to April 25 at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. This year, the festival will screen 33 films from 5 countries, including 4 world premieres and 7 U.S. premieres.
"This is a true celebration of the art and business of Indian film and culture as well as an opportunity to connect with the game changers and emerging filmmakers of Indian-themed content," said Christina Marouda, Iffla's executive director.
'3 Idiots,' a coming-of-age comedy directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and starring Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi, is the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time, collecting more than $80 million worldwide, including a decent take from the U.S.
The festival, which showcases Indian-related films from around the world, runs from April 20 to April 25 at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. This year, the festival will screen 33 films from 5 countries, including 4 world premieres and 7 U.S. premieres.
"This is a true celebration of the art and business of Indian film and culture as well as an opportunity to connect with the game changers and emerging filmmakers of Indian-themed content," said Christina Marouda, Iffla's executive director.
'3 Idiots,' a coming-of-age comedy directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and starring Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi, is the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time, collecting more than $80 million worldwide, including a decent take from the U.S.
- 4/3/2010
- The Bollywood Ticket
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) has announced the 2010 line-up of films for its 8th annual festival, which runs April 20-April 25 at ArcLight Hollywood. The six-day festival will showcase 33 films from 5 countries, including 4 world premieres and 7 Us premieres.
“This is a true celebration of the art and business of Indian film and culture as well as an opportunity to connect with the game changers and emerging filmmakers of Indian themed content,’ said Christina Marouda, Iffla’s Executive Director. “As filmmakers of Indian descent forge new relationships in Hollywood, we invite moviegoers and industry professionals to experience our unique and wide ranging program which includes thought-provoking dramas, engaging documentaries, along with a touch of light hearted fare and a taste of Bollywood.”
Kicking off the festival is the Los Angeles premiere and directorial debut of Dilip Mehta‘s Cooking With Stella, starring Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, and Don McKellar.
“This is a true celebration of the art and business of Indian film and culture as well as an opportunity to connect with the game changers and emerging filmmakers of Indian themed content,’ said Christina Marouda, Iffla’s Executive Director. “As filmmakers of Indian descent forge new relationships in Hollywood, we invite moviegoers and industry professionals to experience our unique and wide ranging program which includes thought-provoking dramas, engaging documentaries, along with a touch of light hearted fare and a taste of Bollywood.”
Kicking off the festival is the Los Angeles premiere and directorial debut of Dilip Mehta‘s Cooking With Stella, starring Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, and Don McKellar.
- 4/1/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 28th annual "Contemporay Documentaries" series will screen two films, “The Final Inch” and “The Forgotten Woman”, on Indian themes on April 7th.
Following American survivors and Indian vaccinators, “The Final Inch” tracks the massive mission to eradicate polio. The stories of those working in the poorest corners of our planet challenge our most basic assumptions about disease, poverty and health as a human right. Directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky and produced by Brodsky and Tom Grant, “The Final Inch” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Short Subject.
Directed by Dilip Mehta and produced by David Hamilton and Noemi Weis, “The Forgotten Woman” aims to bring about an understanding of the destitution and marginalization of many of the millions of widows in India today, who are forced by age-old traditions to live out their remaining years isolated and shunned from society at large.
Following American survivors and Indian vaccinators, “The Final Inch” tracks the massive mission to eradicate polio. The stories of those working in the poorest corners of our planet challenge our most basic assumptions about disease, poverty and health as a human right. Directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky and produced by Brodsky and Tom Grant, “The Final Inch” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Short Subject.
Directed by Dilip Mehta and produced by David Hamilton and Noemi Weis, “The Forgotten Woman” aims to bring about an understanding of the destitution and marginalization of many of the millions of widows in India today, who are forced by age-old traditions to live out their remaining years isolated and shunned from society at large.
- 3/31/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Dilip Mehta’s "Cooking with Stella," starring Lisa Ray and Seema Biswas, will serve as opening night film of the 8th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, which runs from April 20-25 at the Arclight Cinemas Hollywood.
The Screen Actors Guild will host Iffla's opening night with support from the Canadian Consulate of Los Angeles and Telefilm Canada.
Ray, Dilip Mehta and cowriter/exec producer Deepa Mehta will be in attendance at the event, which will benefit the Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research.
The Screen Actors Guild will host Iffla's opening night with support from the Canadian Consulate of Los Angeles and Telefilm Canada.
Ray, Dilip Mehta and cowriter/exec producer Deepa Mehta will be in attendance at the event, which will benefit the Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research.
- 3/29/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cooking with Stella will kick off the eighth edition of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) on Tuesday, April 20. The festival will run from April 20-25 at ArcLight Hollywood.
Cooking with Stella is writer/director Dilip Mehta’s feature film directorial debut. It is a warm-hearted comedy about scheming cook Stella (Seema Biswas) who uses her long-term post as the personal chef to the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi to run an elaborate grey market import business. Deepa Mehta who is the producer of this film has also co-written the screenplay. Lisa Ray who stars in this film along with Dilip Mehta and Deepa Mehta will attend the opening night of the festival.
Cooking with Stella is writer/director Dilip Mehta’s feature film directorial debut. It is a warm-hearted comedy about scheming cook Stella (Seema Biswas) who uses her long-term post as the personal chef to the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi to run an elaborate grey market import business. Deepa Mehta who is the producer of this film has also co-written the screenplay. Lisa Ray who stars in this film along with Dilip Mehta and Deepa Mehta will attend the opening night of the festival.
- 3/29/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Toronto, Mar 19 – Indian film actress Seema Biswas, who is vastly known for the serious roles she plays in movies, has made her first filmic foray into comedy with ‘Cooking with Stella’.
‘Cooking with Stella’, which was written by Dilip Mehta and his sister Deepa, was made about a year ago, and it is set in New Delhi, primarily in and around the compound of the Canadian High Commission.
For Biswas, 45, from Assam, the movie is a groundbreaker, as it is the first comedy she has made out of theatre, and.
‘Cooking with Stella’, which was written by Dilip Mehta and his sister Deepa, was made about a year ago, and it is set in New Delhi, primarily in and around the compound of the Canadian High Commission.
For Biswas, 45, from Assam, the movie is a groundbreaker, as it is the first comedy she has made out of theatre, and.
- 3/19/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Nevada (Us), Feb 22 – Twelve Indian or India related films will form part of ‘28th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival’ (Sfiaaff) to be held from March 11 to 21.
It will include: Today’s Special (David Kaplan), Love Aaj Kal (Imtiaz Ali), Cooking With Stella (Dilip Mehta), Diana (Aleem Khan), Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul), Talentime (Yasmin Ahmad), and Flying (Kirthi Nath). In addition, following Indian or India related shorts will participate: Narmeen (Dipti Gogna), Clap Clap (Tanuj Chopra),.
It will include: Today’s Special (David Kaplan), Love Aaj Kal (Imtiaz Ali), Cooking With Stella (Dilip Mehta), Diana (Aleem Khan), Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul), Talentime (Yasmin Ahmad), and Flying (Kirthi Nath). In addition, following Indian or India related shorts will participate: Narmeen (Dipti Gogna), Clap Clap (Tanuj Chopra),.
- 2/22/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
The 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) will be held October 1-16, 2009. Founded in 1982, Viff's mandate is "...to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada..." Over 150,000 people are expected to attend 640 screenings of 360 films from 80 countries. Here is an up-to-date list of directors, confirmed to attend Viff 2009, along with their films : "1428" Du Haibin "1999" Lenin Sivam "65_RedRoses" Philip Lyall & Nimisha Mukerji "Adelaide" Liliana Greenfield-Sanders "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" Vikram Jayanti "Ana & Arthur" Larry Young "The Anchorage" Anders Edström & Curtis Winter "Antoine" Laura Bari "Argippo Resurrected" Dan Krames "The Art of Drowning" Diego Maclean "At Home By Myself... With You" Kris Booth "At The Edge Of The World" Dan Stone...
- 9/27/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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