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Vijay Anand's film ‘‘Guide’’ (1965) remains one of the most admirable classics of Hindi cinema that promoted secular values, emancipation of women and a philosophical approach to songs.     Hindi film ‘‘Guide’’ (1965) can be hailed as the first major, effective collaboration between an Indian writer writing in English and Hindi film industry. It is based on the novel by RK Narayan that won the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award in 1961 and achieved tremendous popularity. In many ways, it can be said that it is with the success of the film ‘‘Guide’’ that Hindi cinema saw a substantial increase in adaptations of books for the big screen. For example: Basu Bhattacharya film ‘Teesri Kasam’ (1966) was written by famous Hindi writer Phanishwar Nath Renu.      ‘‘Guide’’ turned out to be an instant success as it has all the successful ingredients of a hit film such as melodrama, beautiful locales, catchy philosophical songs and charming actors. In this film, ...

12th Fail, Review: Want to bet on it? The chances are 30 out of 2,00,000 Hara Vahi Jo Lada Nahi (only he who did not fight loses) is the tagline on the book, 12 th Fail, written in Hindi by Anurag Pathak and translated into English by Gautam Choubey and Lalit Kumar. For the film version, the writing credits go to Vidhu Vinod Chopra (who has directed the movie), Jaskunwar Kohli (co-writer), Anurag Pathak (associate writer) and Aayush Saxena. A village student, Manoj Kumar Sharma, who failed his 12th exams, who does not know where his next meal is going to come from, goes on to clear the Indian Police Service (IPS) exam. If that is not inspiring, what is? Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has directed nine films in 42 years (1942: A Love Story , is one of them), has been more prolific as a writer and producer. For this film, he picks an idealist, fiercely honest, never-say-die man, to do a biopic on. It has some outstanding performances but many predictable situations. Yet, it is a great reli...

On Saturday, October 21 st , La Femme International Film Festival screened ‘Tibetan Hearts’, a true story of star-crossed lovers in the Tibetan Plateau. The romantic leads fall in love despite the rivalry between their sheep-herding families.   LAFIFF took place at the Regal Cinemas in LA Live, located in downtown Los Angeles. Now in its 19 th year, it is a festival with a special focus on promoting and supporting films directed, produced, and written by female filmmakers.    ‘Tibetan Hearts’ producers Lynn Tang and Libo Li were in attendance, as well as Colleen Russel Criste, development officer at MOCA, and Tibetan documentary director Pema Dhondup. The film was very positively received by the audience. Director Brian Connors called it “a tender, touching film with sensational scenery”. At the closing Award Ceremony, producer Lynn Tang was honored with the award for Best Foreign Producer. This was the culmination of so much hard work. When Lynn was approac...

IPTA’s Inter Collegiate Drama Competition scores 50, marches on Was it the first or was it the second? Was it 1972 or 1973? My introduction to the annual competition is nevertheless at least 49 years old. I had just finished college, and could not participate. How I wished I could! But I could watch the event, and, soon afterwards, write about it, extensively, in several publications, as a theatre critic. If memory serves me right, back then, it was called IPTA’s Inter Collegiate Hindustani Short Play Competition. Quite a mouthful, that. Nowadays, the acronym is ICDC, Inter Collegiate Drama Competition. And for those unfamiliar with the theatre institution that has created and nurtured giants, IPTA stands for Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association. On 16 October 2023, the ICDC, held at P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, was special. Subhash B. Dangayach and Ramesh Talwar ICDC has completed 50 years, allowing for the one year when it could not be held. IPTA d...

  Simón" and "We Dare To Dream" win $20,000 Grand Prizes. Matthew Modine honored with Pioneering Spirit Award. Audience Choice Awards include "Brave the Dark," "Rustin," "The Lionheart" and more. INDIANAPOLIS - The 32nd Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF) announced the 2023 award winners and presented more than $60,000 in cash prizes to recipients at the Awards Presentation at The Jazz Kitchen on Saturday, October 14. The 11-day festival concluded on Sunday, October 15, with a sold-out screening of "The Holdovers" from Focus Features directed by Alexander Payne and starring Paul Giamatti.   In 2023, the Heartland International Film Festival was named one of the Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by MovieMaker Magazine. Living up to this recognition, the 2023 Heartland International Film Festival's theme promised attendees "You can't look away" from the 120 independent films including 19 World/U...

DCIFF is the oldest independent film festival in Washington DC and acts as a forum for discussion around selected films. We combine a traditional competitive festival format with in-depth conversation around the films we screen - giving filmmakers a chance to connect, learn about the impact of their films and move their work forward. We have a wide range of relevant and up-to-date workshops, socuial events and lots of fun. Every year we welocme 60 or more filmmakers to join us. All submissions at Filmfreeway here: https://filmfreeway.com/DCIndependentFilmFestival Questions? Reach us at dciffsubmissions@gmail.com Our submission fees are low and entirly used to bring selected filmmkaers to attend the festival. from Filmfestivals.com - Hollywood, Independent, Shorts, Videos, Documentary https://ift.tt/rNWmcTH via gqrds

  S eventeen titles will premiere at the Opus Bonum International Competition at the 27th Ji.hlava IDFF :  six films will be screened in their world premiere, eight in international premiere and three will have their European premiere at Ji.hlava. The competition features a great diversity of outstanding films produced by filmmakers from Argentina, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, and United States . We are honored to introduce also the Opus Bonum international jury composed of French editor Dominique Auvray , American writer and scholar Michael Renov , Czech director Adéla Komrzý , British curator and filmmaker Christopher Small , and director Una Gunjak from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Opus Bonum Awards are accompanied with cash prizes 10,000 USD for the best world documentary , 5,000 USD for the best Central and Eastern European film (in cooperat...

Garden City, Kansas. Posted By Robin Menken Bob Hurst’s Garden City, Kansas Is a crime documentary about a foiled terrorist attack and a warning against the violence of Trumpist America. We meet Angie Haflich, the content editor of High Plains Public Radio which broadcasts to Kansas and four other states. Interviews with Haflich and other local citizens portray a conservative Middle American small town (mostly Republican) which, because of it reliance on farming and meat packing, developed an unusually practical progressive approach to Immigration. Once a real life Mayberry, as can be glimpsed in archival footage from a 1950s booster film “This is Our Town Garden City, Kansas USA”, Garden City specialized in farming, wheat milling and grain storage.   Like all of Kansas they raised sunflowers, corn, sorghum soybeans, hogs, cattle and bison. (Seen happily grazing in the film). Its well-painted homes and perfectly manicured lawns look a little different now, as the hard-wo...

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