New Delhi: DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse's mouth. Following the eloquent Q and candid Shonali Bose, in the third in the series, independent filmmaker Onir known for path-breaking films like 'My BrotherNikhil' and 'I Am' shares his views on indie cinema today. I do not know what Independent...
02:25 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse's mouth. Following Q, Shonali Bose and Onir, in the fourth in the series, Shivajee Chandrabhushan who made the critically acclaimed film 'Frozen' and is now working on his next independent project 'One More' sums up his views on independent cinema: Lots...
02:11 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Carnival is a special piece for those who are interested in Indian cinema, being an experimental feature, coming from Madhuja Mukherjee, a video artist, who so far has been known for installations. What can that mean for a movie that is supposed to tell a story, a fictional story, but in the mean time be an experiment with 'Fiction and Fact', 'Story telling & Plot', 'Sound & Silence',...
01:58 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse's mouth. Following Q, Shonali Bose, Onir and Shivajee Chandrabhushan, in the fifth in the series, filmmaker Nila Madhab Panda whose debut feature film 'I Am Kalam' won a national award and much critical acclaim speaks his mind on indie filmmaking: Recently,...
01:32 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse's mouth. Following the eloquent Q [Indie Head Rush: By (Q)aushiq Mukherjee], in the second in the series, Shonali Bose who directed the national award winning film Amu and won the Sundance Institute" Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2012 writes about the compromises...
05:05 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: DearCinema completes five years this February. A journey full of ups and downs, yet immensely meaningful and fulfilling, driven by passion and conviction. Similar to the journey of the cause that it supports: the good Indian indie cinema. So here, DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse's mouth....
04:52 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: Though the possibility of Richard Gere featuring in his future project seems to overshadow everything else that's worth talking, there is a lot this filmmaker has to tell. Nila Madhab Panda has taken the indie route and tasted success with his debut feature film I Am Kalam. And he is now ready with his next film Jal Bin Jal Pari (The Desert Mermaid). Six months after this interview...
06:18 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed's first feature film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival which begins on January 19, 2012. The film was shot in Kashmir during the peak of unrest in 2010. It tells the story of a boatman who wants out of Kashmir but a beautiful young woman researching the dying Dal lake leads him to contemplate a different future. Later this month, the film...
05:59 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: FTII student Piyush Thakur has made The Real Millionaire, the only short film from India which will compete at the prestigious 34th Clermont-Ferrand short film festival in France, starting January 27, 2012. The film has won the Best Student Short Fiction award 2011 by the Indian Documentary Producers' Association (IDPA) and will have a screening at MIFF shortly. The Real Millionaire is the story of a villager whose...
03:05 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: 'Valley of Saints', a love story set in Kashmir is all set to compete for the top award in the World Dramatics category of Sundance Film Festival 2012. The film, directed by an American filmmaker Musa Sayeed, has earlier won Film Independent and Sloan Foundation Producer's Grant. 'Valley of Saints' is about a Kashmiri boatman Gulzar, who plans to run away from the war and poverty surrounding his...
12:07 PM, Dec 07, 2011
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