
Mumbai: A leading French production house, Studio Canal, sees India as a potential hub for international films and believes it is essential to create awareness about Indian films abroad. "It's actually a very nice discovery. I decided to travel to India because the Mumbai film festival (MAMI International Film Festival) invited us," Rodolphe Buet, executive vice president, international distribution and new business of Studio Canal, told. "I thought it's a...

06:40 PM, Oct 28, 2010

The twelve young directors, Babar Nayafi (Director of Seebe), Michael Noer (Director of :R), Screen Yuce ( (Director of: Majority), Anocha ( (Director of Mundane History), Florin Serban (Director of If i want to Whistle, I Whistle), Vardi's Marinak and George (Directors of Black Feild), Aamir Bashir (Director of Harud), Sebastian Astore (Director of A Stone throw away), Daniel Vega and Diego Vega (Director of October), Su Turban (Director of...

12:57 PM, Oct 27, 2010

Mumbai: The 12th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) starting 21st October will feature the world premiere of five movies - three from India and one each from Denmark and France. The Indian films are Biju Kumar's The Way Home, Sudhish Kamath's Good Night Good Morning and debutant K.M Kamal's Alif. The Danish film, Above the Street Below the Water, is directed by Charlotte Sieling. Director duo Jonas Pariente and Mathias Mangin's...

12:48 PM, Oct 16, 2010

The festival is divided in Nine Special Sections: 1. International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors 2. Above the Cut 3. World Cinema 4. Real Reel 5. Indian Frame 6. New Faces in Indian Cinema 7. Dimensions Mumbai 8. Celebrate Age 9. Celebration of Japanese Cinema International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors The 14 Feature Films of first time Directors in the International Competition section...

06:34 PM, Oct 05, 2010

The MAMI committee led by Chairman Mr. Shyam Benegal and trustees Mr. Yash Chopra, Mr. Ashutosh Gowarikar, Mr. Amit Khanna, unveiled the line-up for the 12th annual Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), which consists of 200 films from 58 countries. This forms the largest number of films at any film festival ever. All the international films to be screened in the main sections of this year’s festival will be Indian, Asian...

03:54 PM, Oct 05, 2010

Prakash Raj won best actor award for performance in
Kanchivaram. ...

09:53 AM, Oct 22, 2009

New Delhi: In a bid to boost the country's bowling repository, the BCCI has launched a programme to unearth talent through open trials for pacemen and spinners at various centres. The trials will be conducted by the National Cricket Academy faculty in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, over the next couple of weeks and boys between the age of 17 and 22 will be eligible, a BCCI...

03:28 AM, Apr 24, 2008

Shilpa says she has got international film offers but is tight-lipped about which ones she had accepted. ...

07:59 PM, Feb 24, 2007