A screening of Isabel Herguera’s San Sebastian winner “Sultana’s Dream” will kickstart the inaugural edition of AniMela, India’s first-ever international festival for animation, VFX, Xr, gaming and comics, in Mumbai.
The screening will be followed by a Q&a with Herguera, alongside her Spanish and Indian crew, including Indian animation expert Upamanyu Bhattacharyya. AniMela’s film program includes features “The Peasants,” “Slide,” “Josep,” “Calamity,” “Unicorn Wars,” “Hokkyoku Hyakkaten No – Concierge San,” “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” and shorts under the thematic headings “India Collection,” “Queer Collection” and “Diversity & Identity: Dutch Shorts.”
AniMela’s Knowledge Center hosts workshops, panel discussions and masterclasses with Indian and international stalwarts from the animation, VFX and gaming industries including Annecy Festival director Mickaël Marin, Annecy Film Market director Veronique Encrenaz, VFX Supervisor Srinivas Mohan and filmmaker and educator Nina Sabnani. Highlights include a behind the scenes look at Milind D. Shinde’s “Bandits...
The screening will be followed by a Q&a with Herguera, alongside her Spanish and Indian crew, including Indian animation expert Upamanyu Bhattacharyya. AniMela’s film program includes features “The Peasants,” “Slide,” “Josep,” “Calamity,” “Unicorn Wars,” “Hokkyoku Hyakkaten No – Concierge San,” “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” and shorts under the thematic headings “India Collection,” “Queer Collection” and “Diversity & Identity: Dutch Shorts.”
AniMela’s Knowledge Center hosts workshops, panel discussions and masterclasses with Indian and international stalwarts from the animation, VFX and gaming industries including Annecy Festival director Mickaël Marin, Annecy Film Market director Veronique Encrenaz, VFX Supervisor Srinivas Mohan and filmmaker and educator Nina Sabnani. Highlights include a behind the scenes look at Milind D. Shinde’s “Bandits...
- 1/18/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
US-based filmmaker Ajay Sarpeshkar’s sci-fi thriller Mandala: The UFO Incident follows an Indian American on a quirky adventure as his rocket scientist girlfriend gets abducted by a UFO. With all fingers pointed at him and without evidence, all he has is the support of an eccentric retired investigative journalist. With a background in engineering and technology, Ajay Sarpeshkar will debut as a director with Mandala, the first film of a planned multi-film series.
The film stars veteran Indian actors Anant Nag and Prakash Belawadi as well as Sharmiela Mandre, Samyukta Hornad and Kiran Srinivas. After last year’s Hindi mythological superhero blockbuster Brahamastra, Mandala is another ambitious film riding the local superhero wave within the Indian cinema industry. The film’s extensive special effects have been post-produced in world-class facilities in Singapore, France and USA.
Ajay said, “With this film, I wanted to kick start the under-explored sci-fi genre in the Indian film industry.
The film stars veteran Indian actors Anant Nag and Prakash Belawadi as well as Sharmiela Mandre, Samyukta Hornad and Kiran Srinivas. After last year’s Hindi mythological superhero blockbuster Brahamastra, Mandala is another ambitious film riding the local superhero wave within the Indian cinema industry. The film’s extensive special effects have been post-produced in world-class facilities in Singapore, France and USA.
Ajay said, “With this film, I wanted to kick start the under-explored sci-fi genre in the Indian film industry.
- 2/1/2023
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Writer-director Siddharth Chauhan’s debut feature film set in his hometown Shimla, ‘Amar Colony’ to have its World Premiere at the prestigious 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival which will be held from 11- 27 November in Estonia. Amar Colony is the only Indian film to be part of the ‘First Feature Competition’ at the festival this year.
The film revolves around three women going through their mundane lives, representing human condition, in a chawl, starring Nimisha Nair, Sangeeta Agrawal and Usha Chauhan.
Amar Colony was the first project from Himachal Pradesh to make it to Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Co Production Market in 2018. Other films which were at Tallinn Film festival include Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Mukkabaaz’, Rahi Anil Barve’s ‘Tumbbad’, Rima Das’ ‘Village Rockstars’, Devashish Makhija’s ‘Bhonsle’, Anamika Haksar’s ‘Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis’.
The film is produced by ‘Indie Film Collective’, a film initiative launched...
The film revolves around three women going through their mundane lives, representing human condition, in a chawl, starring Nimisha Nair, Sangeeta Agrawal and Usha Chauhan.
Amar Colony was the first project from Himachal Pradesh to make it to Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Co Production Market in 2018. Other films which were at Tallinn Film festival include Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Mukkabaaz’, Rahi Anil Barve’s ‘Tumbbad’, Rima Das’ ‘Village Rockstars’, Devashish Makhija’s ‘Bhonsle’, Anamika Haksar’s ‘Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis’.
The film is produced by ‘Indie Film Collective’, a film initiative launched...
- 10/13/2022
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its full festival lineup of 28 features and shorts for Doc Fortnight 2020, its annual showcase of the best of nonfiction film, on Monday. The list includes the latest works from the likes of Michael Almereyda, Terrence Nance, Denis Côté, Sky Hopinka, Lucretia Martel, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ben Rivers, Lynn Sachs, Kazuhiro Soda, Roger Ross Williams, Maya Khoury and the Abounaddara Collective.
Now in its 19th year, Doc Fortnight will run from February 5 to 19, 2020, and will include 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres, and 14 Us premieres from 38 countries. Doc Fortnight 2020 opens with the New York premiere of “Crip Camp,” a portrait of Camp Jened—a camp for disabled teenagers near Woodstock, New York, that thrived in the late 1960s and ’70s—which established a close-knit community of campers who would become pioneering disability advocates. The film is co-directed and produced by Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht,...
Now in its 19th year, Doc Fortnight will run from February 5 to 19, 2020, and will include 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres, and 14 Us premieres from 38 countries. Doc Fortnight 2020 opens with the New York premiere of “Crip Camp,” a portrait of Camp Jened—a camp for disabled teenagers near Woodstock, New York, that thrived in the late 1960s and ’70s—which established a close-knit community of campers who would become pioneering disability advocates. The film is co-directed and produced by Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht,...
- 1/6/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The 17th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) concluded on Sunday with a red carpet and gala that featured the world premiere of director Megha Ramaswamy’s “The Odds”, a coming-of-age tale about two teens who skip school on an important exam day and go on a fantastical journey through Mumbai. The evening also featured the presentation of the festival’s Grand Jury and Audience Choice Awards presented by HBO.
Iffla is widely recognized as the premiere showcase of groundbreaking Indian cinema globally. The festival took place April 11-14, 2019 at Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center in Los Angeles, California with the gala presentations at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills. This year’s lineup boasted 5 world premieres, 2 North American premieres, 2 U.S. premieres and 11 Los Angeles Premieres, with films presented in 9 different languages, and 50% of the lineup coming from female directors.
Director Praveen Morchhale...
Iffla is widely recognized as the premiere showcase of groundbreaking Indian cinema globally. The festival took place April 11-14, 2019 at Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center in Los Angeles, California with the gala presentations at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills. This year’s lineup boasted 5 world premieres, 2 North American premieres, 2 U.S. premieres and 11 Los Angeles Premieres, with films presented in 9 different languages, and 50% of the lineup coming from female directors.
Director Praveen Morchhale...
- 4/17/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
The 17th edition of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has closed with Praveen Morchhale’s Widow of Silence, which revolves around a Muslim woman who struggles to get the death certificate of her missing husband, winning the Grand Jury Award.
Anand Patwardhan’s politically charged documentary Reason picked up the Audience Award for best feature. Both honors were presented by HBO on the festival's closing night Sunday at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
Anamika Haksar's Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis received an Audience Awards honorable mention. Sandhya Suri's The Field, which was mentored at the ...
Anand Patwardhan’s politically charged documentary Reason picked up the Audience Award for best feature. Both honors were presented by HBO on the festival's closing night Sunday at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
Anamika Haksar's Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis received an Audience Awards honorable mention. Sandhya Suri's The Field, which was mentored at the ...
- 4/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The 17th edition of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has closed with Praveen Morchhale’s Widow of Silence, which revolves around a Muslim woman who struggles to get the death certificate of her missing husband, winning the Grand Jury Award.
Anand Patwardhan’s politically charged documentary Reason picked up the Audience Award for best feature. Both honors were presented by HBO on the festival's closing night Sunday at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
Anamika Haksar's Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis received an Audience Awards honorable mention. Sandhya Suri's The Field, which was mentored at the ...
Anand Patwardhan’s politically charged documentary Reason picked up the Audience Award for best feature. Both honors were presented by HBO on the festival's closing night Sunday at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
Anamika Haksar's Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis received an Audience Awards honorable mention. Sandhya Suri's The Field, which was mentored at the ...
- 4/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The movie is no less enigmatic than its title. “Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis” (Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon), by the theatre veteran Anamika Haksar, is an intriguing hybrid of a feature and documentary, experimenting both with its form and structure. Premiered at the New Frontier section of Sundance Festival, the film at times seems rather a contemporary art video installation combined with an unconventional theatre performance. Opening titles inform us: „This film is culled from interviews and dreams of pickpockets, street vendors, small scale factory workers, daily wage earners, domestic workers, loaders, rickshaw pullers and many others labouring in the city of Shahjahanabad, Old Delhi”. And indeed we get an emotional, patchwork inner portrayal of a city within a city, woven from scraps of stories. But don’t expect typical postcard landmarks. Haksar focuses on the Old Delhi’s underbelly, backside lanes, tangled bunches of electric wires,...
- 4/15/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
Andhadhun to open festival as previously announced.
The 2019 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has announced its line-up including the La premiere of Ritesh Batra’s Photograph and Anamika Haksar’s Taking The Horse To Eat Jalebis, both of which debuted at Sundance in January.
The festival will also present Ronak Shah’s Love Goes Through Your Mind and host the world premiere of Varun Chounal’s Gabroo.
Three Kolkata-set films will also screen at the festival; Chippa starring Lion’s Sunny Pawar, Slamdance honorable mention Cat Sticks, and Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Jonaki.
The festival features a strong female representation.
The 2019 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has announced its line-up including the La premiere of Ritesh Batra’s Photograph and Anamika Haksar’s Taking The Horse To Eat Jalebis, both of which debuted at Sundance in January.
The festival will also present Ronak Shah’s Love Goes Through Your Mind and host the world premiere of Varun Chounal’s Gabroo.
Three Kolkata-set films will also screen at the festival; Chippa starring Lion’s Sunny Pawar, Slamdance honorable mention Cat Sticks, and Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Jonaki.
The festival features a strong female representation.
- 3/11/2019
- by Mark A. Silba
- ScreenDaily
17th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles announces 2019 lineup including opening night tribute to iconic Indian actress Tabu.
Widely recognized as the premiere global showcase for groundbreaking Indian cinema, Iffla will take place April 11-14 at Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center in Los Angeles. This is the festival’s third year in the state-of-the-art, world-class cinema in the heart of the city’s vibrant and developing downtown district. Opening and Closing Gala presentations will take place at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills with dinner receptions to follow hosted by Indian restaurant Spice Affair.
The festival will open with a tribute and moderated discussion with legendary Indian actress Tabu, paired with a screening of her latest film Andhadhun directed by Iffla alum Sriram Raghavan.Known to her millions of fans worldwide for her intense, masterful performances, Tabu is regarded as one of the most...
Widely recognized as the premiere global showcase for groundbreaking Indian cinema, Iffla will take place April 11-14 at Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center in Los Angeles. This is the festival’s third year in the state-of-the-art, world-class cinema in the heart of the city’s vibrant and developing downtown district. Opening and Closing Gala presentations will take place at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills with dinner receptions to follow hosted by Indian restaurant Spice Affair.
The festival will open with a tribute and moderated discussion with legendary Indian actress Tabu, paired with a screening of her latest film Andhadhun directed by Iffla alum Sriram Raghavan.Known to her millions of fans worldwide for her intense, masterful performances, Tabu is regarded as one of the most...
- 3/4/2019
- by Ina Karpinska
- AsianMoviePulse
National Award winning actress Tabu will be honoured at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in April. Announcing the lineup of films and the other activities of the festival, Christina Marouda, Iffla Executive Director, said in a statement: "We have been discussing honouring Tabu for a long time, and this year felt like the right time. Her work and personality embody everything that Iffla is about -- being fearless, versatile, independent in spirit, unwilling to compromise, brilliant in the range of her performances, and simply beautiful."
"With half of the festival's 2019 lineup directed by female filmmakers, this couldn't be a stronger celebration of women in Indian cinema," he said.
While Tabu's recently released film Andhadhun will be the opening film of the festival, other female filmmakers' work will also be showcased on the occassion. With several feature, shots and documentaries -- films will be shown in nine languages.
'Taking...
"With half of the festival's 2019 lineup directed by female filmmakers, this couldn't be a stronger celebration of women in Indian cinema," he said.
While Tabu's recently released film Andhadhun will be the opening film of the festival, other female filmmakers' work will also be showcased on the occassion. With several feature, shots and documentaries -- films will be shown in nine languages.
'Taking...
- 3/1/2019
- GlamSham
Indian actress Tabu (“The Namesake”) will kick off the 17th edition of the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles in April with “Andhadhun,” directed by Sriram Raghavan.
Running April 11-14 at the Regal L.A. Live, Iffla will open with a tribute to mono-monikered Tabu and a moderated discussion along with a screening of her latest film. The opening and closing night films and galas will be held at Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
Tabu plays an actress caught disposing of her husband’s body in front of a pianist, who may or may not be blind in the black comedy “Andhadhun.”
“We have discussed honoring Tabu for a long time, and this year felt like the right time,” said Christina Marouda, Iffla’s executive director. “Her work and personality embody everything that Iffla is about — being fearless, versatile, independent in spirit, unwilling to compromise, brilliant in the range of her performances,...
Running April 11-14 at the Regal L.A. Live, Iffla will open with a tribute to mono-monikered Tabu and a moderated discussion along with a screening of her latest film. The opening and closing night films and galas will be held at Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
Tabu plays an actress caught disposing of her husband’s body in front of a pianist, who may or may not be blind in the black comedy “Andhadhun.”
“We have discussed honoring Tabu for a long time, and this year felt like the right time,” said Christina Marouda, Iffla’s executive director. “Her work and personality embody everything that Iffla is about — being fearless, versatile, independent in spirit, unwilling to compromise, brilliant in the range of her performances,...
- 2/28/2019
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
Closing night gala and television panel participants to be announced shortly.
The 17th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) will open on April 11 with a tribute and moderated discussion with Indian star Tabu and a screening of her latest film Andhadhun directed by Iffla alum Sriram Raghavan.
Iffla 2019 will feature three world premieres, two North American premieres, two Us premieres, and 11 Los Angeles premiere screenings. The line-up spans nine languages, and includes female and first-time filmmakers along with returning festival alumni.
Additional line-up details, including the Closing Gala and television panel participants, will be announced soon.
Highlights from...
The 17th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) will open on April 11 with a tribute and moderated discussion with Indian star Tabu and a screening of her latest film Andhadhun directed by Iffla alum Sriram Raghavan.
Iffla 2019 will feature three world premieres, two North American premieres, two Us premieres, and 11 Los Angeles premiere screenings. The line-up spans nine languages, and includes female and first-time filmmakers along with returning festival alumni.
Additional line-up details, including the Closing Gala and television panel participants, will be announced soon.
Highlights from...
- 2/28/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film FestivalVeteran theatre personality Anamika tells Tnm why she chose the medium of cinema for ‘Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebi’, which is being screened at Iffk.CrisThere is something really beautiful about a person who has for decades been a prolific playwright, and now a filmmaker, not expecting to be recognised, agreeing to sit on a weak-looking plastic chair and joking that it might fall and take her down with it. Anamika Haksar hands out brochures of the first film she has directed after 40 years of being in theatre and then disappearing from the scene for a few years. Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon / Taking The Horse To Eat Jalebi, a film about four characters living in Old Delhi, is being screened at the International Film Festival of Kerala in the competition section. “Yes, it is a brochure. It is my film,” she says, without taking offence,...
- 12/13/2018
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
The Sundance Institute rounded out the lineup for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival by unveiling its New Frontier section, which “spotlights work at the dynamic crossroads of film, art and technology.”
While the feature, short-film and indie episodic lineups tend to attract most of the press at Sundance, New Frontier consistently hosts the festival’s most dynamic and innovative work, spanning a wide range of interactive, emerging technology and installation-based projects that encompass Vr, Ar, mixed reality (Mr) and AI.
No section of the festival changes more from year to year than New Frontier, as reflected in the recent decision to expand to two venues — New Frontier at The Ray and the neighboring New Frontier Central, including a dedicated Vr Cinema — where the projects will be viewable during the duration of the festival, accompanied by panels and other special events.
Those looking to the Sundance Film Festival to find the cutting-edge...
While the feature, short-film and indie episodic lineups tend to attract most of the press at Sundance, New Frontier consistently hosts the festival’s most dynamic and innovative work, spanning a wide range of interactive, emerging technology and installation-based projects that encompass Vr, Ar, mixed reality (Mr) and AI.
No section of the festival changes more from year to year than New Frontier, as reflected in the recent decision to expand to two venues — New Frontier at The Ray and the neighboring New Frontier Central, including a dedicated Vr Cinema — where the projects will be viewable during the duration of the festival, accompanied by panels and other special events.
Those looking to the Sundance Film Festival to find the cutting-edge...
- 12/5/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
No word yet if Eminem will be showing up in Park City for one of those late night concerts that only happen at Sundance but the Oscar winning 8 Mile star is certainly part of the New Frontier slate for next year’s festival.
While it’s usually the films in competition and the premieres that attract a lot of the spotlight leading up to the Sundance Film Festival, but year after year it is the more experimental New Frontier offerings that often point most clearly towards the future. From Marshall From Detroit and 32 other projects from 10 countries, 2019 looks to be continuing that tradition, as Sff founder Robert Redford said today and as you can see by checking out the full slate below.
“For over a decade, New Frontier has pushed the boundaries of the possible, illuminating the potential of technology and storytelling,” Redford declared of the ever-expanding selection. “These independent...
While it’s usually the films in competition and the premieres that attract a lot of the spotlight leading up to the Sundance Film Festival, but year after year it is the more experimental New Frontier offerings that often point most clearly towards the future. From Marshall From Detroit and 32 other projects from 10 countries, 2019 looks to be continuing that tradition, as Sff founder Robert Redford said today and as you can see by checking out the full slate below.
“For over a decade, New Frontier has pushed the boundaries of the possible, illuminating the potential of technology and storytelling,” Redford declared of the ever-expanding selection. “These independent...
- 12/5/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Programme will run at New Frontier at The Ray, inaugural New Frontier Central.
A Royal Shakespeare Company collaboration and new work from Chris Milk are among the Sundance New Frontier line-up of experimental media announced by Sundance Institute on Wednesday (5).
Exhibits, films and performances include Vr, Ar, mixed reality and AI. The line-up includes UK production The Seven Ages Of Man, Royal Shakespeare Company and Magic Leap explore theatre’s future with Magic Leap technology in a mixed reality production of the titular speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
Chris Milk is a key collaborator on Emergence, an...
A Royal Shakespeare Company collaboration and new work from Chris Milk are among the Sundance New Frontier line-up of experimental media announced by Sundance Institute on Wednesday (5).
Exhibits, films and performances include Vr, Ar, mixed reality and AI. The line-up includes UK production The Seven Ages Of Man, Royal Shakespeare Company and Magic Leap explore theatre’s future with Magic Leap technology in a mixed reality production of the titular speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
Chris Milk is a key collaborator on Emergence, an...
- 12/5/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film FestivalAmong the world cinema are films by directors Kim Ki-duk, Jean-Luc Godard, Jahar Panahi, Spike Lee, Lars von Trier and Olivier Assayas. Asghar Farhadi's 'Everybody Knows' is the inaugural film. Tnm StaffStill from 'Everybody Knows'iffk has not broken its tradition. There is going to be a Kim Ki-duk film this time as well among the 90 odd pictures coming from various parts of the world. It's called Human, Space, Time and Human. Then there's Jean-Luc Godard's The Image Book. Banned Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces. Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built. And Olivier Assayas’s Non-Fiction. In the world cinema category, are 26 films having their Indian premiers and two with their Asian premiers. Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows is the inaugural film. Asghar's film About Elly had won the Golden Crow Pheasant (Suvarna Chakoram) at Iffk, 2009. Everybody Knows tells the story of...
- 11/30/2018
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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