Media Management Team, MANORANJAN COMMUNICATIONS: 10th MAMI International Film Festival

MAMI MIFF SHORT FILM PICS

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Stills-MAMI 2008

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TINGYA-PICS FOR MEDIA

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Tingya

Ravi Rai

Mangesh Hadawale

Dimensions Mumbai - SYNOPSIS

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Vaaps-First Prize

Vaapsi, a moving short feature on a failed movie actor ably explores how, for some, Mumbai the city of colourful dreams, remains almost that - a black and white dream, unrealised. Smartly written, expertly shot, the film evidences a young director's rare control over the craft of filmmaking, and an urge to tell a touching story. Despite the subject--hardships of Mumbai-- which was shared among several entries at the competition, VaajJsi was the jury's unanimous choice for the top prize.

Mumbai Half Marathon -Second Prize

Refreshingly original in'its form, the energetic, musical animation Mumbai Half Marathon humorously surveys the thoughtless herd-mentality of city life where we are all pointed to a particular direction, therefore we collectively rush. While the film's take on the silly mechanics of a metropolis may not be specific to Mumbai, it's the inventiveness of the idea and the sense of joy in its approach that clearly won the jury over.

Live Mumbai -Third Prize

Live Mumbai is a delightful short film on a city where survival is for the smartest, and livelihood the only religion. Largely devoid of sentimentality, full of hope,
even with its grim theme, the short feature amusingly explores urban compulsions that turn a common-man into an efficient survivor.

Special Jury Mention:

Patri :
For the catty concept alone--a young man who falls in love with the female voice he hears most in Mumbai: of the local train-station announcer's-- the jury considered the short-film idea Patri worth a special mention.

A Handful of Sky:
A Handful of Sky is a quiet meditation on loneliness among maddening crowds that compel some to create an alternatively calm, inner world of their own. The film deserves a special prize for the mature treatment of the urban theme

DIMENSIONS MUMBAI FINAL FIVE DETAILS

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VAAPSI (THE RETURN)-
Director - Srinivas Sunderrajan
Phone No- 9820896946
E-mail - callmevaas@gmail.com

Award:- Rs. 1, 00, 000/- Best Entry

MUMBAI HALF MARATHON

Director - Aishwarya S.

E-mail - 19gems@gmail.com

LIVE MUMBAI
Director - Ganesh Duttaram More
Phone No- 28721314, 9920293326
E-mail- prashantghogale2000@yahoo.co.in

PATRI
Director - Akshara Prabhakar
Email-mailto:Email-akshu_prabhakar@yahoo.co.in

A HANDFUL OF SKY
Director - Neha Singh
E-mail- nehasingh82@yahoo.com

LIST OF AWARDEES

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Tingya: Best Film

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synopsis :
Karbhari, the village farmer was all geared up to yield the tubers and payback the money he owed to the local village money lender Sahukar Tatya. One evening coming back from the graze, Chitangya, Karbhari's bull falls into the leopard trap and breaks his hind leg. Unable to stand on its feet and move, it was not possible for Chitangya to plough the fields.
Continual medication and treatment by Karbhari and his wife Anjana could not resurrect Chitangya to employ. This sent shivers in Karbhari as a little delay in reaping would have the buds on the potatoes. Karbhari did not want to penalize himself more from the sahukar. Pandu, a farmer had just committed a suicide two days ago not able to return the money to Sahukar. Why wasn't Rashida's grandmother being sold to the butcher? She too was old and not working. Why were they all taking care of her and not his Chitangya? Chitangya certainly would not depart.
Tingya is a painstakingly meticulous film about an emotional love story between a bull and a boy. It inquires through Tingya's innocence the validity of existence. It queries the order of the alive and breathing. Is it the man, animal, bird and the sea or vice versa? Who regulates and classifies the categories?

10th MAMI CLOSING PICS

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The Jury Special Prize given to the Film Frozen Directed by Shivaji Chandrabhushan by Mr.Yash Chopra
Shri Rishi Kapoor Felicitated by chief guest dev anand for Significant Contribution to Cinema over 25 years

Shri Gulzar feliciated by Dev Anand for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Film Music as Lyrics Writer-1

Shri Gulzar feliciated by Dev Anand for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Film Music as Lyrics Writer-1

Shri Gulzar feliciated by Dev Anand for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Film Music as Lyrics Writer-1

producer ravi rai,director mangesh hadvale receiving award from yash chopra for best film in indian competition section

Kodak Award for Technical Excellence to Shri Hitendra Ghosh by Dev Anand

Global Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred on Carlos Saura, the renowned Spanish director who was in Mumbai to presided the function.award given by MAMI CHAIRMAN Mr.Shyam Benegal

director mangesh hadvale receiving International Critics FIPRESCI award for best film from yash chopra

Dimensions Mumbai winner Srinivas Sunderrajan receiving award from Mrs.Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan

Dharmendra Deol received The Lifetime Achievement Award from chief guest Dev Anand

Dharmendra Deol & chief guest Dev Anand

CLOSING CEREMONY OF MAMI 2008

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Spanish Director Carlos Saura felicitated with Global Lifetime Achievement Award on the closing of 10th MAMI IFFM 08

~ “Dharmendra, Rishi Kapoor, Gulzar & Hitendra Ghosh amongst other awardees” ~

BY SONALEE SHYAMSUNDER & PRABAL BHARDWAJ

Mumbai, 13th March 2008 - The 10th MAMI International Film Festival’s awards ceremony was held on Thursday night, March 13th, Spanish Director Carlos Saura felicitated with Global Lifetime Achievement Award. The Chief Guest of the event Mr. Dev Anand, veteran Actor-Director, presented the Lifetime Achievement award to Shri Dharmendra.

The closing gala event had the esteemed presence of film directors from several countries along with Mr. Shyam Benegal, Chairman of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) and other Trustees of MAMI.

On the Closing Gala Night, the Japanese film The Mourning Forest was screened, a film that won the Grand Prix at the 60th edition of Cannes Film Festival in 2007.

The Closing screening started at Cinemax, Versova. Mr. Shyam Benegal fecilitated Mr. Carlos Saura in presence of large number of press & delegates.. Carlos Saura addressed the audience with great enthusiasm. The Press Conference of Carlos Saura was also conducted at the venue. The venue was full of Press and Delegates. After that audience has been briefed about the Closing Movie “The Mourning Forest”. With the brief introduction of movie “The Mourning Forest” screened.

To commemorate a decade of excellence, this year MAMI IFFM ‘08 introduced a host of exciting new initiatives. The Global Lifetime Achievement Award has been instituted this year to recognize an international director for his/her contribution to the world cinema. The first award was conferred on Carlos Saura, the renowned Spanish director who was in Mumbai to presided the function.

After the screening of movie, all the Invites, Press & Delegates started moving to J W MARRIOTT for the last moment of MAMI International Film Festival 2008. The venue started getting momentum with the presence of Mr. Dev Anand, Mrs. Aishwarya Rai Bachhan, Mr. Shyam Benegal, Mr. Gulzar, Mr. Rishi Kapoor, Mr. Ashutosh Gowarikar, Mr. Dharmendra, Mr. Ramesh Sippy, Mr. Ranbir Kapoor, Mr. Hitendra Ghosh, Mr. Dan Wolmen, Mr. Kiran Shantaram, Mr. Sudhir Mishra and the Chairman of FIPRESCI Jury Mr.Rolf Hamachar

Shri Dharmendra Deol received The Lifetime Achievement Award. And other honorable awardees at the 10th MAMI International Film Festival were Shri Rishi Kapoor for Significant Contribution to Cinema over 25 years, Shri Gulzar for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Film Music as Lyrics Writer and the Kodak Award for Technical Excellence to Shri Hitendra Ghosh.

In order to nurture talent and provide a platform to new generation of filmmakers, on the occasion of its 10th edition, Mrs. Jaya Bachchan, one of the trustees of MAMI, introduced a new initiative called Dimensions Mumbai. Digital films under five minute durations depicting various aspects of life in Mumbai were invited, for which there was a tremendous response with of more then 80 entries. Vaapsi by Srinivas Sunderrajan won the cash prize of Rs. 1, 00, 000/- as the best entry and Mumbai Half Marathon by Aishwarya won the runner up prize of Rs. 30,000. The Third Prize given to Live Mumbai by Ganesh Dattaram More with the cash of Rs.20,000/-.

The Dimensions Mumbai Jury also made a Special Mention of the films Patri by Akshara Prabhakar and Handful of Sky by Neha Singh.

“Tingya” were selected as the best Indian films judge by a special five member International Jury and also a three-member FIPRESCI (International Critics Organisation)The Jury Special Prize given to the Film Frozen Directed by Shivaji Chandrabhushan. Special mention for Actress given to Swati Sen for touching role as Janki in the film Antardwandwa. Special mention for Best Child Actor has given to Darsheel Safari for his convincing interpretation in the film Tare Zameen Par

Presented by Reliance Big Entertainment, the weeklong festival was inaugurated on March 6 and screened more than 140 films from several countries across the globe.

Here are some highlights of the festival:

· The Opening Gala Night marked the screening of Polish master Andrzej Wajda’s latest film Katyn, nominated for an Oscar in the foreign film category. Katyn was premiered at the recently concluded 58th Berlin Film Festival and Mumbai Festival witnessed the grand Asian premiere of the film.
· The Italian silent film Pinocchio (1911) restored by Cineteca was centre piece of the festival. The film, based on famous Collodi’s novel, was screened with live music. The screening was sponsored by the Italian Consulate, Mumbai.
· Daily master Classes by renowned film makers like James Mimikos, Shriram Raghavan, Prof. Dragan, Stefano Odoardi, Govind Nihalani and Dan Wolman.
· The festival celebrated the 50th year of Andrzej Wajda’s legendary film Kanal
· Film maker in focus was Carlos Saura whose eight films including Carmen were screened
· Special screening of To Each His Own Cinema made by 25 world renowned directors to celebrate 60 years of Cannes Festival – 2007
· Retrospective of Ritwik Ghatak and Andrzej Wajda.

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“Wish will come true if u show strong inclination towards it” - Riccardo Gabrielli R (Director)

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By Sonalee Shyamsunder.

“Wish will come true if u show strong inclination towards it” - Riccardo Gabrielli R (Director)

Film “When The Waves break” is a smooth and touchy movie presented and appreciated in the MAMI festival. Director Riccardo Gabrielli R made this movie more interesting by adding melodious music in between.
The movie is about fulfilling wish of a grandmother by her grand son. Daniel receives an old family photo album where he come to know about his grandma’s secrete wish in that on her birthday she had asked to attend the ‘Beile de la Rosa’ which was celebrated every year. Her grand son decides to make his grandma’s wish come true and worked for it. Finally he becomes successful in his task.
Here the director wants to say that if you try hard and put your maximum efforts in your work or dreams you will definitely get that. However your efforts should be honest.

The film proved its success by pulling maximum number of viewers and was highly appreciated by the film lovers and critics.

About the Director –

Director Riccardo Gabrielli R is prominent short film maker he has made, written and directed more than 15 short films. It is his first full length movie selected for the international film festival.

MAMI Top Ten by Sonali Shyamsunder

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An eight days film festival was presided by the viewers and prominent personalities related to film world. Following are the movies put marked impression about the combination of contemporary and old movies.

1. Bare foot to Jerusalem
Bare foot to Jerusalem is screening its world premiere in the MAMI festival 2008 was directed by Nitzchka Keene she died due to cancer in the year 2004.the movie is regarding the story of a women’s journey after her lover’s suicidal death.

2.On the wing of dreams
This movie was successful in pulling maximum number of viewers. The director of the movie Golam Rabbnay Biplob received “Best Director Asian New Talent” at Sghanghai International Film festival. The film story showed the veracity of the human tendency in an artistic manner.
3.Pinocchio
Pinocchio is one of the oldest movies shown in the festival directed by Giulio Antamoro who was one of the prominent filmmaker in the Italian film industry. It is the only silent moves with the melodious live band performing during the show. The specialty of the band was, for every show they used to compose their own exclusive music. The movie was successfully run in the theatre for more than two years.

4.Hero in Rome
Audience considers this movie as the movie of the millennium as it was attracting top figure viewers. Movie was the great combination of oxymoron situation occurred in the life of the main character in script. The director of the movie Panos Angelopoulos is famous for making greatest comedy movies with many Greek actors. Thus it is a must watch film!

5.I served the king of England
The focus of the film deals with the two parallel stories happened in the life of a man. The movie was successful enough in presentation of the clash between past and present of the main character in the film powerfully. The film was highly appreciated by the film critics. The director of the film Jiri Menzel is successful Czech director and also won Oscar for Best foreign language film. He also achieved a lifetime’s achievement at the San Francisco Film Festival.

6.Love songs
Love song is the movie decorated by melodious songs which its self are the story tellers. The movie is about the relations and its changing scenario differs from person to person and time to time. The director of the movie Jayabrato Chatterjee is documentary king and made many nations and international documentaries with N.G.O’s.

7.Katyn
Katyn is director Andrzej Wajda’s reverence to those who died in the annihilation done by the Soviets in 1940.the director himself has experienced the traumatic situation shown in the movie. Wajda is known for drawing from Poland’s history to suit his tragic sensibility-crafting an composition of work that devastates even as it informs. The movie was highly esteemed by the film critics and ordinary viewers as well.

8.Silent holy stone
Movie is all about the story of a ten year old boy nick named little Lama by the monastery where he was sent to train as a Buddhist monk. However this little boy has an obsession to watch television. It is shown in the movie that how gradually that habit of the boy changes and his transformation in to some different person. The director of the movie Wanma is regarded as a rising stars on the the film scence in China. Film critics added that this movie has become successful in showing the impact of westernization and consumerism effectively.

9.Tsotsi
According to Indian viewers Tsoti is based on the Hindi movie Shakti, however well appreciated as well. Lead character Tsotsi is a rebel, his accidential kidnapping of a child gave him a chance to progressively rediscover hi humanity, dignity and capacity of love. Director of the film Gavin Hood is one of the prominent director from the south Africa and won several awards. One of his movie won award for being best of festivals award as The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival in the year 2002.

10.Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del fauno)
It is a super natural story. The lead character in the movie Ofelia who is facinatd by fairy tales, discovers an overgrown, tumbeldown labyrinth behind the mall in her village. The film was screened in the cannes film festivals in 2006, new york fimfestivals in 2006 and Toronto film festival in 2007. The creativity director of the film Guillerm del Toro was immensely loved by the audience in all the mentioned film festivals including MAMI.

Taking in to account all other movies shown in the festivals above films proved crowed puller in the MAMI film festival. Mentioned movies were exceedingly prized by the choosey viewers.

Press conference of the movie – Antardwanda , On the Wings of Dreams and Love Songs.

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Press conference of the movie – Antardwanda , On the Wings of Dreams and Love Songs.

BY SONALEE SHYAMSUNDER & PRABAL BHARDWAJ

The Press and Delegate started gathering on the venue of Press Conference of MAMI International Film Festival 2008. The venue was full of Press and Delegates. It was the first time when three wonderful movie’s Press Conference has arranged at the same time. The film included Antardwand, On the Wings of Dream and Love Songs.

The Press Conference started with the film Antardwanda. The director of the movie Sushil Rajpal was present with actors Akhilendra Mishra & Swati Sen. Bapi & Tutul - Music Director, Amitabh Verma – Dialogues and Lyrics writer, Manoj Sikha –Sound Designer of the movie were also present at the venue. It was really great to see the enthusiasm of Press delegates as well as the unit of Film.

Sushil Rajpal is a FTII graduate. He has been working in Mumbai as a Cinematographer for Advertising and Feature Films. Antardwanda is his first film as a director. The movie is inspired from a true story of Bihar. Sushil has been able to bring out the story of dark truths, still prevalent in our society. He was answering the question of “what was the basic idea behind making the film”. He replied “Bihar has witnessed the crime for last so many years. I just wanted to present it.” He also talked about the message of the movie “No one Wins in that kind of situation”. Actor Akhilendra Mishra also waited to act in this movie for past four years.

Because of less time and lots of question, the Press Conference moved to another movie “On the Wings of Dreams”. Mr. Golam Rabbany Biplob, Director of the movie, has earned an international reputation as a leading Cine-Club activist and film festival organiser. He is the Founder-Director of the International Film Festival of Bangladesh and the secretary general of the International Federation of Film Societies, the Global Umbrella of Cine-Clubs. On The Wings of Dreams is his first film as a director. The film has won “Best Director Asian New Talent Award” in Sanghai International Film Festival. Mr. Biplob faced lots of question related with the condition of film making in Bangladesh. He said “Now conditions are much favorable and we are also getting financer for our movies”. “But at the same time, we need more finance in our country” he added.

After that, Press Conference was continued with the team of Love Songs. The love Song is the movie is directed by Jayabrato Chatterjee, he has done many documentaries with the national and international level. This is his first commertial movie.
Love song is a movie with melodious songs with has narrated the movie in a beautiful way. The movie is about imbalance relations and its impact on the persons belongs to the same family. A film in English is an evocative story of how ordinary lives suddenly change because of extraordinary circumstances. And how the fragrance of love move gently from unremitting darkness towards fresh light. To give new hope. And the possibility of glorious tomorrows.

Mridula Chaterjee who runs a N.G.O. in Kolkata, she has a miserable past and life after her marriage was also having strange complications. All such complications have become her miserable past, even after her marriage her daughter is not the child of her husband but of her ex lover with whom her relation doesn’t work out. Rohan Mridula’s grandson whom she brought up solely. Rohan comes for his vacations from law school, his natural curiosity about his grandmother’s life compels her to drag up memories that had long remained confined within her heart. Memories of her daughter Palash a night club crooner. Always troubled. Always stormy. Define by Palash’s feets of insecurity about her wayward drummer husband, Dev , and Mridula’s own emotionally misbalanced relation ship with her only child. Memories of a research trip to the rural area of Birbhum where she happen to encounter Aftab Jafrey again, now marred to the alcoholic Rabea.

As Mridula unravels the past to Rohan and his girlfriend Tara, they begin to understand to understand the choises she had to made – for her self as well as for Rohan. And why, in the end she was forced to revel a strictly guarded secrate to Palash and than to move on, alone , despite her daughter death and the possibility of a second chance with Aftab.

The Movie ‘Love Songs’ was screened at 10th MAMI international film festival and received tremendous response from the viewers and was appreciated on the large scale. It is the movie which touched the heart of the audience not only in India but also at the international level.

THE PAK FILM RAMCHAND PAKISTANI COULD NOT BE SCREENED IN MAMI BECAUSE OF TECHNICAL SNAFUS

2008-03-11T09:19:00.000-07:00

Q & A by By Jyothi Venkatesh

THE PAK FILM RAMCHAND PAKISTANI COULD NOT BE SCREENED IN MAMI BECAUSE OF TECHNICAL SNAFUS - Kiran Shantaram, Secretary, MAMI

How happy are you with MAMI having been associated with it right from its inception ten years ago?
I am extremely happy with the way MAMI has grown by leaps and bounds. Thanks to MAMI which is held in Mumbai year after year, people now recognize most of cinema from the different parts of the world. From just one screen when MAMI started ten years ago, it is a matter of pride that this year the festival is held in seven screens all over the city and the suburbs.

In what way, according to you, has MAMI grown?
The number of films which are being screened this year in MAMI has increased from the number of films shown in earlier years. This year, as many as 147 films are being shown from more countries from all over the world. This year 40 countries have sent their films for participation in MAMI.

There is a complaint that efforts have not been taken to procure any film from Pakistan this year!
We did initiate discussions to get the film Ramchand Pakistani directed by Javed from Pakistan but unfortunately due to technical snafus and time limitations we could not get the film for screening in MAMI this year.

What is the new feature of MAMI this year?
For the first time, we have started having Master Classes during the week-long MAMI International film festival this year.Besides Dan Wolman who is the director of Tied Hands from Israel, James Mimikos from USA, Stefan Odoardi, Italy, the director of Una Ballata Bianca (A White Ballad) and Dr Dragon from Serbia, this year we have film makers like Sriram Raghavan and Govind Nihalani are taking Master Classes and I am happy that there is a great response for the same even though we have scheduled them at 9.45 am every day at Adlabs Imax, Wadala.

Are there any other new initiatives this year?
For the first time since the inception of MAMI, we will give away The Global Achievement Award this year to international filmmaker Carlos Savra. Besides this, this year, we also have a section called Dimensions Mumbai though which we have also set out to encourage young filmmakers below 25. This will be in addition to our usual yearly awards to felicitate people from the Hindi film industry who have rendered yeoman service to the industry. This year we will be giving Dharmendra the Life Time Achievement Award while Rishi Kapoor will get an award for significant contribution to cinema over 25 years as an actor-director. While Kodak Award for technical excellence will go to Hitendra ghosh, Gulzar will be conferred with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Hindi film music as a lyricist

FINAL SCHEDULE-MASTER CLASS

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Oh Darling Yeh Hai Mumbai!

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Short films about Mumbai submitted for the Dimensions Mumbai contest by under-25s surprise Deepa Gahlot by their dark tones.

"Mumbai… the city of dreams" is a line that recurs often.. a city always in a rush, is a theme that attracts young filmmakers.

To recap, the International Film Festival of Mumbai, in its 10th edition, introduced a Dimensions Mumbai, a contest of five-minute films on the city, open for film/media professionals or students below the age of 25. The response was overwhelming—82 films at last count, some had to disqualified because the filmmaker was too old or too young, or submitted the film in the wrong format.
But 82 different young visions of Mumbai threw up quite a few surprises. Except for local trains, crowded streets and beaches, there were none of the clichés about Mumbai one might – no films about the dabbawala or Ganpati, for instance! The local train blasts popped up often, but not a single film about the Page 3 culture, Bollywood or shopping frenzies in malls—hardly a glance condescended to the glamour or glitter of Mumbai.

The young filmmakers mined the streets and hovels of the city to come up with films that dripped sympathy for the underdog, the lonely immigrant, the street urchin, the homeless, the poor and the hungry. All the people our commercial and even multiplex films and prime time television has long forgotten.

This is probably not the Mumbai we'd like to sell as a tourist destination—but this is the aspect of the city that most concerns young people.. perhaps a few of them picked up dark subjects because they had the impression that festival juries go for 'cause' films.
But it's not possible that all of them had the same idea at the same time.

The other remarkable thing was that almost all the films were well-shot, well-edited, often with creative use of sound. And they all had a point of view.. some could state it clearly, some in heavily-accented muddled voice-overs, but their compassion shone through. 'Amateur' or 'immature' are not words that would come to mind easily to describe these films.

At least some of these young people will seek careers in films and television… so maybe the future is not as hopeless as it seems today.

(Deepa Gahlot curated the Dimensions Mumbai package for the MAMI Festival. The short-listed films will be screened at Imax, Wadala, on March 11 at 11 am, the three winners will be announced on March 13)

Courtsy: Hindustan Times & Deepa Gahlot

Kagbani -Supernatural story with good visual narration.

2008-03-11T03:17:00.000-07:00

By Sonalee Shyamsunder.

Kagbani is the film adopted by the supernatural classic story written by W.W.Jacob originally called “The Monkey’s Paw”. It is written during 20th century. Script adviser Reshu Aryal Dhugana converted the story taking in to account Thakali culture. According to her, Nepali culture believes in mysteries and the suspense in the nature or an environment.

The story is about the two youth and the wish fulfiller paw given by mysteries stranger. A young boy Krishna came to visit his village there he meet his close friend Ramesh. Both of them decided to visit neighboring village. On the way they come across a stranger who gave them an animal’s paw which had got supernatural powers which can fulfill demanded wish. However the major curse was, the wish used to get fulfilled in a strange way. Here the director wants to reflect that good things have a miserable background. It is cause and effect relation. Happiness or completion of a wish has to give or sacrifice some thing from the life.

This movie is directed by Bhushan Dahal it is his first movie as a director. Dahal is prominent T.V personality in the Nepal. Have done many T.V commercials in Nepal.
The film was highly appreciated by the audience on the large scale, in spite of being based on the fictional story still it was proved as a brilliant effort by the director and his team, in the 10th MAMI international film festival.

Prominent film critic R.K Radhakrishnan added that “ it is an example of the film which not only entertains but also touches the heart”

Kadachit Is a One Act Play Turned Into a Film - ASHWINI BHAVE

2008-03-10T10:58:00.000-07:00

Q & A by Jyothi Venkatesh
Kadachit Is a One Act Play Turned Into a Film
- ASHWINI BHAVE

Ashwini Bhave who has settled in U.S.A after marrying USA based finance banker Kishore Bopardikar ten years ago, is now back with a bang in India, this time not just as an actress but also as a producer, with her maiden venture in Marathi called Kadachit, directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni, which is an entry in the competition section of MAMI this year.

Ashwini who had joined a film school in USA after her marriage says that she realized that she was cut out for filmmaking when she made a short film called Warli-Art & Culture as part of her exercise. "I realized that I should go behind the camera set up and understand what film making is all about. Though I decided to launch a film on my own banner and started working on two different scripts, when I stumbled on Girish Joshi's script, I realized that my search for the right script was over."

Ashwini admits at the outset that she liked Girish Joshi's script. "It was actually a One Act play initially. When I read the script, I felt that it had the potential to be made into a film. Though as an actress, it was a difficult decision for me to take up the task of producing the film, it was my husband who stood by me and backed me to the hilt. I think I have handled it well", Ashwini quips.

Kadachit, which stars Ashwini Bhave, Sachin Khedekar, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Tushar Dalvi and Nilu Phule (in a small cameo role) was shot in just 22 days in Pune, Kolhapur and Nasik. Says Ashwini, "On a broader level, Kadachit is basically about perception of truth in our day to day life. There could be any number of perceptions regarding every one in life. My film is about a modern progressive married woman who is a nuero surgeon, who is not only a wife but also a mother. The film is about how she manages to cope with when a man enters her life though she is married and has kids."

Says Ashwini "Kadachit is an emotion ridden social drama, which deals with the intricacies of relationship. I have always believed that content is the king. My film drives home the subtle message that when one is confronted by a difficult situation, one should not get bogged down but seek a way out and move ahead."

Adds Ashwini. "I do not feel that language is a barrier when it comes to watching a film. In any case, back in USA, I keep on watching films, whether they are French or Japanese or for that matter Iranian. I decided to launch my first film in Marathi because Marathi happens to be my mother tongue. I feel cozy and comfortable in Marathi and feel that I owe it to the Maharashtrians because I feel Maharashtra is my home. I know how each rupee is to be utilized as a producer. After releasing my film on my own in Pune, I am now learning the art of marketing my film."

THE END

A White Ballad -cinematic journey of words and images, about isolation, youth, decay and love.

2008-03-09T23:49:00.000-07:00

A White ballad is movie directed by Stefano Odoardi who is also an artist (painter) thus his visual sense reflects in his work. This is movie about the couple who is very much in love with each other. Few years after their marriage they come to know that wife is suffering form incurable disease. Such news upsets the couple. Consequently after getting such bad news, their relation transforms in to more mature level. The director of the movie Stefano Odoardi said it’s an art film and according to him the movie is about accepting the death gracefully. The actions or the verbal or non verbal communication between them has more meaning, it becomes more genuine. Here the husband tries to give hundred percent to his wife before her death but not in the usual manner. Even the actions which they perform for each other or individually become more meaning full. They become more conscious about it and don’t what the single moment of their together life let go.

Director’s vision reflects that one doesn’t need verbal communication to know each other or exchange stance. There is no possibility of misunderstanding between intimate relations of the loved ones. The movie is successful in convincing that, many times silent communication proved more effective than the oral one. Stefano Odoardi thinks that his movie is visual narration of the story of the married couple; possessing minimum words are the best part of the movie. He wants audience to think more about the relations as some times we fail to understand sentiment presented or expressed in the words. Here he deals with the absence of words with meaningful responsible actions done for each other by the couple in the movie.

Most of the time it is noticed that, when it comes to the death of the dearest ones, we feel sad and react in the strange way or we simply fall down by cursing our destiny. Here instead the couple tries to find out new way of living life by showing their affection to each other. Putting heavy dialogues in the movies is primordial; here I want to show that visual impact is equivalent to the artistic words perhaps more powerful. The cause behind making this movie is not just an entertainment, I what people to think more about the relations in some different bearing. This movie also indicates that one should understand and respect the relations of our partners as length of the life can not be assured. Talking about the human tendency regarding life, we always come to know about the life, only when we come across unexpected situation like death. However on the other side I feel even after the death of the dearest, one can not hindered our self by loving them or communicate with them silently, still we can share our feelings with them and that is the meaning of true eternal love.

COMPLETE SCHEDULE-CINEMAX VERSOVA

2008-03-09T09:12:00.001-07:00

COMPLETE SCHEDULE-METRO ADLABS

2008-03-09T09:03:00.000-07:00

Revised Schedule

2008-03-09T08:16:00.000-07:00

PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE FILM ----- "4months, 3 weeks and 2 days"

2008-03-09T05:55:00.001-07:00

Day: Sunday
Date: 9-03-2008

The Press conference held on the afternoon of Sunday, the 9th of 2008 was a success. The media was present at the venue of IMAX Adlabs much before the conference was scheduled to begin. This film that is planned to be released in India on the 14th of March is a must watch for youths. The distributors of the film Mr. Jay Bajaj and Hari Vanjani were present in place of the director Mr. Cristian Mungio who is the brain behind the script of the movie.
Talking to Mr. Jay Bajaj, one of the distributors of the film, he explains that the movie set in Romania portrays two girls who are in such a circumstance due to which one gets pregnant and has to get the baby aborted. The tribulations and trials they have to go through leave the viewers horrified making them think whether such a thing can really happen. A must watch for the youth is what Mr. Bajaj had to advise. On talking about the expectations he had from the Indian viewers he said that the day it was screened almost ninety percent of the seats were full which made it clear that the movie was indeed liked by everyone.
On discussions about the absence of his director Mr. Bajaj specified that the director was busy with a script and was really working very hard on it. He also revealed that the movie was first screened at Cannes Film fest before it was screened in Romania and was well received by the audience. On speaking about the camera techniques used in film he said that the most of the shorts were taken in a single take to bring more effect to the scenes. Asked about the money put in distribution, Mr. Bajaj didn’t reveal the exact amount but did manage to say that it was more than the returns or recovery that they expect. He further added that for more information anyone could log on to the website of the film
http://www.4months3weeksand2days.com/
By,
Smrithin Sathishan,
For Manoranjan Communication.

DIMENSIONS MUMBAI - Short Listed Films

2008-03-09T05:45:00.000-07:00

DIMENSIONS MUMBAI
Short Listed Films

Breathless Mumbai

Live Mumbai

Mumbai Half Marathon

Opposite

“ Mom” B ”Aai”

Vadapav

Mumbai – the other side of your dreams

Patri

When Shall I Sleep

. . . (dot dot dot)
Shooting Streets

Vaapsi (the Return)

We The People

Thousand Desires

City of Dreams

Sunday Holiday

Aamchi Mumbai ?

Mumbai Misal

Mumbai Aisi Banati Hai

Mumbai Sepia

A Handful of Sky

Suryast

Arghyadan

Dhuan

This is Mumbai My Friend

IMAX COMPLETE SCHEDULE

2008-03-08T08:35:00.000-08:00

Sriram Raghavan-'Write, Write and Write and You Shall Evolve !'

2008-03-08T07:20:00.000-08:00

'Write, Write and Write and You Shall Evolve !' – Sriram Raghavan

Report on the Master Classes at MAMI

By A. RADHAKRISHNAN

Adlabs IMAX- Theatre No. 3

Sriram Raghavan,, a journalist turned film maker, is an exciting writer-director.

His is an unabashed passion for story telling. His directorial debut 'Ek Hasina Thi' starring Saif Ali Khan and Urmila Matondkar,got him noticed and his second mainstream film, both directed and scripted by him- 'Johnny Gaddaar' successfully launched the career of Neil Nitin Mukesh. Despite his passion for thrillers, he is now working on a love story with John Abraham and Aishwarya Rai.
"A project with Ramu didn't take off, but he introduced me to another script which was simple, but sort of novelish and too descriptive, with the girl as a protagonist. The script of the first half covered just three pages and seemed sort of rushed through. Our job was to make it interesting. Thus came Ek HasinaThi.

I don't think I have been inspired, though for my research, I read a lot of thriller authors. I watched many jail break films and went to every jail in the country to see for myself. The idea was not to copy scene by scene, but it was fun to see various ways a film could be made. But again, you have to look for honesty in your work. That way a lot of influences show in my work. In fact I would say '
better be inspired and better have researched.'

On the one hand, you sometimes start with a character, which builds up through the story and on the other hand we have plot oriented like Johnny Gaddaar.It is difficult to say what an ideal script is. But I guess something like Deewar where the camera is so powerful.

The novelty of the script is important. 'It is not the story but how you say it' that is important. The idea itself is so strong. I would say don't spiral bind your scripts. The plot of Johnny Gaddaar is mathematically clear. Kundan Shah once told me that 'the plot has no life and a life has no plot'. The whole thrust with Johnny was to make the audience feel the characters are real people.
'Inspiration' is a deadly word in India! But watching Indian and foreign films from yesteryears is like looking at a large reservoir of Gods. This expands my thought process to the limits. Research is essential.

It helps to keep actors in mind while scripting. Neil Mukesh was my first choice for Johnny Gaddaar. . The script evolves over a time, with the actors and cameraman giving me their inputs. I have not worked with bound scripts but you should always have room for change. Script writers are not born. There is a certain sequence in the brain which brings it out.

To be a good scriptwriter, you got to keep writing and writing. Only through practice can you evolve. There are no short cuts or formulas. You will then get the feel of it.

You can take a certain amount of liberty in scriptwriting but you cannot blur fiction and reality. The script should be simple, give the maximum economy and introduce a strong story

The problem with India is the dearth of good writers. I am looking for good script, but my advice is for you to get it registered first with the proper authority.

I am inspired by scriptwriters like Javed and Salim as well as from American films. I love Hitchcock too. A good scriptwriter can be a good director. Every director has to be a writer too.

But all said and done, the script is the most important part of any film.'

SCHEDULE FOR MAMI MASTER CLASSES

2008-03-07T07:30:00.000-08:00

FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE OF MAMI 2008

2008-03-07T03:26:00.000-08:00

MAMI Update- Jury’s first encounter with Press.

After the kickoff of International MAMI fest on the 6th of March ’08 the first Press Conference took off in style at the main venue IMAX Adlabs in the afternoon of 7th March’08. It was hosted by the Artistic Director of MAMI, Mr. Sudhir Nandgaonkar who briefly introduced the Indian Competition jury and the Fipresci jury to the audience and the press. The Indian Competition Jury consisted of Dan Wolman from Israel, Jury Chairman; Gonul Donmez-Colin- a film scholar from Turkey; James P. Mimikos a producer from Greece; Manju, an Assami story-teller turned film maker from India and Kerala-based film society activist George Mathew from India.
The Fipresci Jury consisted of Rolf-Ruediger, chairperson from Germany and Selvaggia Velo- from Italy.
The discussion round started with role of International Jury in selecting the films. Gonul Donmez shared her experience with the line that judging from the catalogue was interesting as well as challenging. It has been revealed to the press that the selection was based on unanimous decision. Sudhir Nandgaonkar talked about the national & international festivals that take place through out the year. He said, “The films selected in national festivals have always been judged by Indian Jury. But here at MAMI’08 the selected films should have a local taste and should be appealing to masses universally. These things should be kept in mind while judging such things. Dan Wolman added that Universal appeal doesn’t depend on popularity. “Universality and Commerciality is totally different” – was the view of James .P. Mimikos .
Sudhir Nandgaonkar also said that MAMI’08 is the one such film festival that has been able to set the trend of film fests. He was answering to the question whether any award winning film had an impact on Jury while judging films. Replying to a question James .P.Mimikos said festivals are very important for any film and festivals like MAMI give opportunity to independent film makers to present their work and also prove to be a platform for young film makers. The festival also brings films from across the world and at the last Sudhir Nandagaonkar agreed that, “Now we are getting better films” He was comparing earlier years of MAMI when they had wait for entries to be submitted. He was happy that the scenario had changed and there were many International and national entries because of which there was a more positive approach to such festivals.

LIST OF PRESS CONFERENCE OF MAMI 2008

2008-03-07T02:40:00.000-08:00

PRESS CONFERENCE OF MAMI 2008

2008-03-06T07:21:00.001-08:00

Press Conference:

Date: 7th March 2008, Friday

Time: 1:30 pm

MEET THE INDIAN COMPETITION JURY AND FIPRESCI JURY

INAUGURATION OF MAMI 2008

2008-03-06T07:05:00.000-08:00

Mumbai, MARCH 6:

It was a delightful evening when the International MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Images) kicked off in a traditional yet glamorous way at the Imax Adlabs.

The festival now in its Tenth year now will showcase films from across the globe for an entire week ending on March 13th.

With dignitaries from across the world, Bollywood personalities and a large number of film enthusiasts. The media was kept on its toes as one by one, the celebrities started piling inside the venue. The anchor introduced the whole fest in brief.

Legendary Director, one of the celebs of the occasion Mr.Shyam Benegal was welcomed on stage. He expressed hope that the fest would get better with each passing year. He thanked everyone who was involved in committee of MAMI.

Mr.Sudhir Nandgaonkar, Director of MAMI said,” I am proud to organize such a great show.

A 5-minute digital film competition called “Dimensions Mumbai” for youth below 25 from Mumbai on the theme “Metropolis of Mumbai” was also talked about. This competition section has a cash prize of USD 2500. The international delegates were felicitated along with the celebrities Mr.Sachin, Mrs. Neeta Vashist and many others.

Mr. Yash chopra was the chief guest of the occasion and inaugurated the event by the Indian custom of lighting the Lamp along with all the trustees of MAMI.

Secretary of MAMI, Mr. Kiran Shantaram spoke about the whole event and thanked the main sponsor of the whole event “Reliance entertainment”.

The opening Gala Night on the 6th of March’08 at IMAX ADLABS marks the screening of the Oscar nominated film “Katyn”. The film was premiered at the recently concluded 58th Berlin Film Festival. The film talks about individual sufferings & emotions rather than boring historical facts. Produced with the most advanced technologies this film boasts of being the only film not only in Poland but the entire Europe to be shot on 4K technology. (4K is a technology which enables four times higher resolution in post production than commonly used 2K process).

A must watch film; Director Andrzej Wajda, one of the filmmakers in focus, is one genius to look out for with the kind of films he has managed throughout the festival.

Reliance Big Entertainment of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is the sponsorer of the weeklong festival which will see the screening of 140 films from 45 countries in Adlabs Wadala, Metro Adlabs and Cinemax Versova.

The awards night that will take part in the later stages of the fest will mark the end of the extravaganza actors Dharmendra and Rishi Kapoor, writers Gulzar and Hitendra Ghosh who will be felicitated for their contributions to the Indian film industry.

As many as 140 films from 45 countries, a special short film segment and a retrospective of Ritwik Ghatak's works - the upcoming version of Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image's (MAMI) International Film Festival has all this and much more.Retrospectives of the works Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda are also scheduled to happen..

"KANAL" Legendry film by Andrej Wajda

2008-03-06T01:35:00.000-08:00

The 10th MAMI International Film Festival will celebrate the 50th year of Andrej Wajda’s legendary film “Kanal’. The Festival will also hold a special screening of the Film.

“You cannot harm us! The choice is yours,
You can help us, you can deliver us
Or still delay and leave us to die...
Death is not terrible; we know how to die.

But know this: from our tombstones
A victorious new Poland will be born
And you will not walk this land
You red ruler of bestial forces!”

During the Warsaw Uprising, Jozef Szczepanski, an officer cadet aka "Ziutek", a soldier of the "Parasol" battalion, wrote a poem which speaks the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth ...

Kanał is a 1956 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was the first film ever made about the Warsaw Uprising, telling the story of a ragged company of Home Army resistance fighters escaping the Nazi onslaught through the city’s sewers. Kanał is the second film of Wajda's War trilogy, preceded by A Generation and followed by Ashes and Diamonds and it does make a sufficiently powerful and convincing picture on the screen.
A symbolic depiction of hell on Earth set in the last days of the Warsaw uprising in 1944. September, 1944. It's the 56th day of Warsaw's uprising against the Nazis. The third Platoon of the Resistance is down to 43 heroic men and women, and they're penned in. After a last day of fighting, and of good-byes to family, to love making, and to music, a handful of doomed survivors wade into the city's underground sewers in hopes of escape.
Written by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński who himself survived in the sewers as a soldier of Armia Krajowa (the Polish underground resistance army) during the Warsaw Uprising. Watch them closely, for these are the last hours of their lives,” announces the disembodied voice of a narrator, foreshadowing the tragedy that unravels.

Kanał earned Wajda the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1957 (the second most prestigious award after the Palme d'Or), solidifying his position as Poland's premier director. Polish critics state that the film paved the way for other films of the Polish School of filmmakers
The decisive factor of Kanal, which proved to be the first and the most important success in Andrej wajda’s life, was provided by Tadeusz Konwicki. It was he who gave him the story by Jerzy Stawinski, and as the literary director of the "Kadr" studio did everything to ensure that the film would be produced.
The tragedy of the people who believed to the very end that the fight they had undertaken is right has found disturbing expression in Wajda's film. The drama assumes a shape of a metaphor, all the more meaningful because its ordinary heroes have been, for many years, forced into the shadows of silence, to endure the mudslinging, false accusations and slander.

The film is a Dantean nightmare. It is also an unforgettable testimonial. . Credible or not, it seems he could have dispensed with some images of a vaguely surrealistic nature. But let's be fair: these excesses aside, Andrzej Wajda's work is executed with the hand of a master and brilliantly acted. There are, unfortunately, experiences which must never be erased from human memory.

CARLOS SAURA: Filmmaker in Focuss at MAMI 08

2008-03-06T01:11:00.000-08:00

The Filmmaker in focus will be Carlos Saura at 10th MAMI International Film Festival. His eight films including Carmen will be screened.

Carlos Saura (born 4 January 1932, Atarés, Huesca) is a Spanish film director. His interest on cinema started when he was very young. His mother, who was a pianist, instilled in him the liking for music. When he was a teenager he started to practice photography, and in 1950 he made his first illustrated feature films with a 16 mm camera. Carlos Saura is an excellent photographer, an activity that he shares in a sporadic way with the making of films.

He then moved to Madrid to continue his Industrial Engineering career, but his vocation for photography, cinema and journalism made him leave his studies and matriculate. In 1957 he finished studying and got the director diploma. At the same time, he finished his end-of-career short film Tarde del domingo, La (1957). He continued as a professor until 1963. In that year he was removed from the school for strictly political reasons (Franco's censorship). In 1957-1958, he created his first film Cuenca. In 1959 he filmed Golfos Los (1962) _. In this film he tried to create a sort of Spanish Neo-Realism by tackling the juvenile delinquency in the Madrid's poor quarters from a sociological point of view. In his first stage as director he tried to take a position in favour of outcast people, and he got to make a both lyric and documentary-style cinema. In 1965, his style, both lyrical and documentary, centered on the problems of the poor, received the recognition of the international community at the Berlin Film Festival, where he received the Silver Bear for his film La caza. In 1967, his film Peppermint Frappé also received a prize at Berlin. The movies La prima Angélica (Cousin Angélica) of 1973 and Cría cuervos (Feeding the Ravens) of 1975 received the special prize of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1990, he received the Goya Award for the best director and best script for ¡Ay, Carmela!. He was chosen as director for the official film of the 1992 Olympic Games of Barcelona, "Marathon" (1993).The film Mamá cumple cien años (1979) got an Oscar nomination in 1979 as the best foreign film, and it also won the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastian Festival. In 1990, he won two Goya awards as best adapted screenplay writer and best director.

Carmen is a 1983 film adaptation of the opera of the same name by Georges Bizet. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style by Carlos Saura. It is the second part of Saura's flamenco trilogy he made in the 80's, after Bodas de sangre and followed by El amor brujo
The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The opening Gala Night on the 6th of March’08 at IMAX ADLABS will mark the screening of the Oscar nominated film “Katyn”

2008-03-05T03:24:00.000-08:00

A hidden historical truth-KATYN

“They are to witness God will count
and take pity on them
Yet how can they resurrect body
being a sticky element of the soil

A bird flew by a cloud is sailing
A leaf is falling mallow sprouting
and there’s silence on high
and the Smolensk forest is steaming fog”

These words do seem a bit tough but it does put a picture on what the Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s film, Katyn, which made its debut in India at the annual 10th Mami International Film Festival, Mumbai wants to portray. The film has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (Poland) at Oscars this year and will hold a special place at the opening gala night.

The opening Gala Night on the 6th of March’08 at IMAX ADLABS will mark the screening of the Oscar nominated film “Katyn”. The film was premiered at the recently concluded 58th Berlin Film Festival. The film talks about individual sufferings & emotions rather than boring historical facts. Produced with the most advanced technologies this film boasts of being the only film not only in Poland but the entire Europe to be shot on 4K technology. (4K is a technology which enables four times higher resolution in post production than commonly used 2K process). ). A must watch film; Director Andrzej Wajda is one genius to look out for with the kind of films he has managed throughout the festival.

The big screen image of Katyń will enter collective memory as a presentation of innocent Polish deaths and the covered-up truth, which will be shown in its brutal dimensions.
Katyń is consciously-made simple cinema, moving, and exposing not only the very crime, but also the lie about it. The cinematography is brilliant considering the fact that the use of 4K technology instead of the 2K technology is soothing to eyes as it guarantees minute details of each & every shot.

It is an extraordinary, magnificent film which comes to heal a ragged wound in the Polish soul of 15,000 men is an extra-ordinary film of brilliance. Six decades long and countless families deep, it does not do justice for this unpunished crime but does manage to unearth and present the truth. It contributes to such an aim but rather by living through the entire Katyn ordeal with the audience who mourn with the bereaved and by preserving its history by breathing it into those learning from the film.

Katyn is both a crime, and a lie. The film addresses both, following the captured officers taken to the Soviet Union as they maintain their spirits and discipline in hopes of regaining the opportunity to return to fight for their homes and families, and those families who cherish that same hope of return for their husbands, sons, and brothers, only to see it dashed and buried.But the film is about more than the mass murder itself.

This film is also very important in terms of world history. It also captures the moment after WW2. A must watch for history lovers, this film will be remembered throughout the festival.

The film will be shown at all four screens of IMAX Adlabs on the 6th of March at evening 7pm.