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12/08/2018

Best wishes to Platoon One Films!

Platoon One Films is proud to announce its first Marathi film production: PICASSO starring National Award winner Prasad Oak, directed by Abhijeet Mohan Warang and produced by Shiladitya Bora.
Shoot begins August 16, 2018.

23/11/2015

Pitch your short film ideas here:

DocedgeKolkata is a combination of one-on-one training, group discussions and individual mentoring of filmmakers. The exposure widens the further latitude of creative input as world’s some of the best creative documentaries are screened, discussed and analyzed. Participants are nurtured in pitch lab…

20/11/2015

Early deadline: Nov 27!

Submit Your Film The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is excited to announce that submissions for the 2016 festival are officially open. To submit your film, please click on the “submit” button below. Be sure to read the Submission Rules prior to submitting your film. Early Bird Deadline – Novemb…

07/01/2015

After bringing out DearCinema.com for eight exciting years, we are taking a break at the moment. We won’t update the website and send out newsletters during the break period. We do plan to come back pretty soon, however, at the moment we don’t have a definite timeline to announce. We will announce o…

30/12/2014

Final deadline approaching

The 15th New York Indian Film Festival, to be held from May 3-9, 2015 is calling for entries. Films that have not been/will not be publicly screened or premiered in New York or the Tri-State Area prior to NYIFF 2015, and meet the following criteria, will be considered. DIASPORA CINEMA: Films that fe…

26/12/2014

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is definitely one of the finest active filmmakers today. His 2014 film “Winter Sleep” won the Golden Palm (the biggest award) at the Cannes film festival. His “Winter Sleep” is not easy viewing—it is more than 3 hours long and is word heavy. It is a sensitive cine…

24/12/2014

Entries are invited for the 62nd National Film Awards in Feature films, Non-feature films and Best Writing on Cinema categories. In co-productions, at least one of the producers must be an Indian entity. The director should be an Indian citizen and the cast and crew should be predominantly Indian na…

23/12/2014

Hot Docs, the International Documentary Film Festival in Canada, will feature films from India in its “Made In” program at the 2015 Festival, April 23 to May 3. Each year the Made In program celebrates a country or region’s contribution to documentary, offering revealing glimpses into the social, po…

22/12/2014

Indian filmmaker, curator and educator Madhusree Dutta will sit on the International Short film Jury of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival to be held from February 5-15, 2014. Her fellow jurors include Singaporean Curator and author Wahyuni A. Hadi and Istanbul-based artist Halil Altındere.…

17/12/2014

Miss Lovely director Ashim Ahluwalia’s latest project The Boyfriend has been selected for 32nd edition of Cinemart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam to be held from January 25-18, 2015. The project also received the festival’s Hubert Bals fund for script and proj…

16/12/2014

The film has beautifully portrayed the innocence, simplicity and ambition of children oblivious to harsh realities like class divide, elitism and capitalism.

15/12/2014

Aditya Vikram Sengupta won the Best Director award for his debut feature Labour of Love at the recently concluded Marrakech International Film Festival. The Jury, headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert, comprised of Indian director Ritesh Batra, Danish director Susanne Bier, French filmmaker Bert…

15/12/2014

Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court picked up two prizes in the Asian Feature Film category at the Singapore Film Festival (December 4-14) including Best Film and Best Director. Tamhane received cash prizes worth US$11,600 in total. “This glittering gem dazzles with its simplicity, elegance and breathtaking n…

13/12/2014

“I am not handicapped,” says Khoka, the protagonist of Kaushik Ganguly’s Chotoder Chobi, when he is offered a seat reserved for the physically challenged on public transport. Khoka is a dwarf. The film by Kaushik Ganguly tells the story of people affected by dwarfism and their fight for existence an…

13/12/2014

Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dhanak is one among the thirteen titles that the Generation section of the Berlin International Film Festival announced on Friday. The Marathi-language film is Kukunoor’s latest after Lakshmi on child trafficking. The film will receive its world premiere in Generation K Plus compet…

13/12/2014

Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly will finally hit the theatres in India on December 26, 2014. The film was earlier scheduled for a September release which never came to pass. The film received a world premiere at Director’s Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 following which it was screened at severa…

10/12/2014

In Bollywood screenplays are narrated, not read and I was in one such story pitching session at a studio when I spied on a list of names on the white board. The names were unknown but the surnames had a ring to them. Upon enquiring, I found out that they were children of famous actors …

10/12/2014

The Durban International Film Festival is calling for entries. The 36th edition of the festival will be held from 16 to 26 July 2015. Only films completed in 2014 and 2015 will be considered, and there is no fee for entry. Submissions will be accepted with either a DVD Screener or an Online Screener…