Mumbai (PTI): The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) will be celebrating the 10th edition of IIFA Weekend in Macau next month with special awards like ‘Best of the Decade’ and ‘Green IIFA’.
‘Best of the Decade’ will be given for the five popular categories of Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Music Composer, Sabbas Joseph, Director […]
Guardian News Service
Last week saw the start of a trial that pitches Hollywood studios against the technology industry, and whose outcome could change the face of home entertainment. The trial, taking place in San Francisco, centres on a $30 software package published last year called RealDVD (realdvd.com).
RealDVD, marketed by RealNetworks, allows DVD owners to copy […]
GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE
Economy and migration of studio work elsewhere put many LA staffout of a job
Bruce McCleery hardly had a day out of work in 25 years. As one of Hollywood’s most sought-after lighting technicians, he worked on big-budget movies like Independence Day and Mission Impossible III. He travelled the world as part of an […]
Washington (IANS): The Mumbai-set Oscar-winning film ‘Slumdog Millionnaire’, which brings the plight of slum children in India into focus, has sparked interest in charities that target the problem, according to US charity organisation CAFAmerica.
“Individuals and organizations that have been touched by ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ should consider donating to aid Indian children,” said CAFAmerica CEO Susan Saxon-Harrold […]
Panaji (PTI): India’s first ever digital archives of feature films and documentaries from across the globe has been set up in Goa.
Around 130 films spanning across Marathi, Portuguese, Hindi, English, Konkani, Assamese, Bengali, French and Italian languages are stocked on the server, are available at a click of a button.
The Goa-Government run Entertainment Society of […]
Ignatius Pereira
VILAKKUPARA: The Oscar glory brought by sound engineer Resul Pookutty to India turned into a high-octane celebration in the usually sleepy village of Vilakkupara in Kerala’s Kollam district on Monday from where he hails. His natal home there turned into a hotspot of celebration.
A crowd was sitting glued to the television set in tense […]
K.K. GOPALAKRISHNAN
A fete of short films called VIBGYOR was held in Thrissur.
we had chosen `Water’ as the `Focus of the Year’ to showcase films that document the ongoing struggle … in the name of water… Fr. Benny Benedict
NEW ANGLES: A still from Dhananjoy Mondal’s `Silent Killer.’
A festival of short and documentary films was recently […]
‘Ore Kadal’ wins the Audience Award in a festival of Indian cinema in Germany.
Honours: Director Shyamaprasad Shyamaprasad’s ‘Ore Kadal’ added another award to its kitty when it won the Audience Award at ‘Bollywood and Beyond,’ a festival of Indian cinema in Stuttgart, Germany, which concluded on July 20.
The director received a trophy and cash prize […]
GAUTAM CHATTERJEE
A recent movie is true to the genius of sarod maestro Buddhadev Dasgupta.
Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
Priceless knowledge Buddadev Dasgupta. How many good films or documentaries are made on Indian classical musicians? The answer would be only a few. A movie on Mallikarjun Mansur by the Films Division, on Kumar Gandharva by Jabbar Patel […]
SHYAMHARI CHAKRA
DOCU FEST Orissa film-makers get together, give a two-day treat.
Photo: Shyamhari Chakra
The Veterans Ghanashyam and Gopal Ghosh. Better late then never. Realising the wisdom in the saying, documentary and short filmmakers of Orissa came together recently to form the Odisha Short and Documentary Filmmakers’ Association (OSDFA) to further the cause of this marginalised […]