Thursday, October 23, 2014

Fénix Awards -Ibero-American Critic's Award to Brazilian film critic José Carlos Avellar.



 In the first edition of the Fénix Awards the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI, has decided to bestow the Ibero-American Critic's Award to Brazilian film critic José Carlos Avellar. 
An admired and appreciated writer, critic, teacher and programmer, Avellar worked for over twenty year’s  for the newspaper Jornal do Brasil, and has published six books on Brazilian and Latin-American cinema. The former vice-president of FIPRESCI is also Berlinale's delegate in Brazil. 
FIPRESCI has teamed up with Cinema 23 in its effort to promote Ibero-American cinema, and will acknowledge the contribution to film criticism in the region through the Ibero-American Critic's Award every year within the Fénix Awards .The first edition will take place on Thursday, October the 30th, in Mexico City. The ceremony will be broadcasted live (at 8:30 PM local time) by E! Entertainment Television in Latin America, by Cinelatino in the United States, and by Canal 52 in Mexico.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

45th International Film Festival of India 2014 (44th IFFI 2014)-List of Non-Feature Films released .



The Jury for the Non-Feature films of the of Indian Panorama section of 45th International Film Festival of India 2014 chaired by well-known filmmaker Mike Pandey selected 15 films in this category. 

S.No.
Title of Film
Language
Director
1.       
A Dream Never Dies
Assamese
Aneisha Sharma
2.       
The Last Adieu
English
Shabnam Sukhdev
3.       
My Father Namgyal
English
Utpal Das
4.       
On and Off The Records
English
Pratik Biswas
5.       
Womb on Rent
English
Ishani K Dutta
6.       
Qissa-E-Parsi
English & Hindi
Divya Cowasji, Shilpi Gulati
7.       
Songs of the Blue Hills
English & Nagamese

Utpal Borpujari
8.       
Songs of the Bards of Bengal – The Bauls and Fakirs
English, Bengali
Monalisa Dasgupta
9.       
An American in Madras
English, Tamil, Hindi
Karan Bali
10.   
Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu
Malayalam
Vipin Vijay
11.   
Mitraa
Marathi
Ravi Jadhav
12.   
Vithya
Marathi
Prasanna Shrikant Ponde
13.   
Ek Hota Kau
Marathi
Viju Gopal Mane
14.   
Bahadur The Accidental Brave
Nepalese/ English
Aditya Seth
15.   
Candles in the Wind
Punjabi & English
Kavita Bahl & Nandan Saxena
 THE LAST ADIEU (Director: Shabnam Sukhdev) has been chosen as the Opening Film by the  Jury .

45TH International Film Festival of India 2014(45th IFFI)- Indian Panorama -26 Feature Films selected .



The Jury for Feature Films, headed by renowned filmmaker
A.K.Bir selected the following 26 Feature Films for the Indian Panorama section of the 45th International Film Festival of India  which would run from November 20 to 30-  2014
Othello( Assamese) Hemanta Kumar Das
Punashcha ( Bengali )Souvik Mitra
Chotoder Chobi (Bengali) Kaushik Ganguly
Bodhon(Bengali) Ayananshu Banerjee
Jodi Love Dile Na Praane (Bengali) Ms. Sudeshna Roy &
Mr. Abhijit Guha
Teenkahon (Bengali )Bauddhayan Mukherji
Gour Hari Dastaan -The freedom File (Hindi) Ananth Narayan
Mahadevan
Ankhon Dekhi (Hindi )Rajat Kapoor
1-December ( Kannada) P. Sheshadri
Ri  (Khasi ) Pradip  Kurbah.
1983 (Malayalam) Abrid Shine
North 24 Kaatham (Malayalam )Anil Radhakrishnan  Menon
Njan Steve Lopez (Malayalam) Rajeev Ravi
Drishyam( Malayalam) Jeethu Joseph.
Munnariyippu( Malayalam) Venu
Swapaanam( Malayalam) Shaji N. Karun
Njaan( Malayalam) Ranjith
Ek Hazarachi Note( Marathi) Shrihari Sathe
Elizabeth Ekadashi (Marathi )Paresh Mokashi
Killa (Marathi )Avinash Arun
Dr. Prakash Baba Amte The Real Hero (Marathi )
Samruddhi Porey
Yellow( Marathi )Mahesh Limaye
Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush( Marathi )Om Raut
A Rainy Day (Marathi) Rajendra Talak
Adim Vichar (Odiya) Sabyasachi Mohapatra
Kuttram Kadithal (Tamil )Bramma G.
Elizabeth Ekadashi (Director:Paresh Mokashi ) has been chosen as the Opening Film by the Feature Film Jury of Indian Panorama 2014.