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VOTE Imagineindia International Film Festival

2012-01-17T11:03:00.001+01:00

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Imagineindia screens films of Girish Kasaravalli in Vigo

2011-12-30T13:36:00.000+01:00

Throughout the month of January 2012, will take place at the Lumiere Cinema Club in the northern spanish city of Vigo a short retrospective of the filmaker from Karnataka (India) Girish Kasaravalli. ImagineIndia in collaboration with Rosebud Films organizes this retro on this important filmmaker from Karnataka, which is one of the most dynamic and emerging State of India. The film Club founded in 1993, has been at the same time, one of the most dynamic among the Galician film clubs.

The screenings will take place at the mentioned Film Club at Placer Street in Vigo, the following days:

01/09/12 DWEEPA
16/01/12 HASINA
23/01/12 GULABI TALKIES
30/01/12 RIDING THE STALLION OF DREAMS

Imagineindia Barcelona 2011 (2 to 29 December)

2011-11-07T19:16:00.003+01:00

ImagineIndia Barcelona Film Festival celebrates this year it,s fourth edition. The best films showed at the 10 th edition of International Film Festival ImagineIndia in Madrid will be selected, being complemented with few films of previous editions.

The three previous editions of this festival in Barcelona have been a great success and the festival will continue with the same enthusiasm to give a showcase to films which normally do not reach the spanish screens, and show the less known face of Indian Cinema.

Indian cinema is experiencing huge change on it,s script, editing and production knowhow and growing up with Films which highlight controversial issues in the Indian society : woman and child abuse, terrorism, organized crime, quite different to the "Mainstream cinema from Bollywood", far from the glamorous musical numbers and luxury. Directors like Anurag Kashyap, Ram Gopal Varma, Dr. Biju, Ananth Mahadevan, Nandita Das, Mani Ratnam, etc... along the years have been presenting their best work at Imagineindia, breaking topics, with a more dynamic contemporary stance which even for the West could be not acceptable, immersed in a long confusion. Every film of Lars Von Trier is the "best ever" when "No Smoking" of Kashyap is "Exotic".

The opening Gala of the festival will be held on December 2 at the Film Institute of Catalonia in Barcelona, with the presence of Qazi Abdur Rahim (Director of ImagineIndia), Rafael Carrasco (Asian Films), Octavi Martí (Deputy Director Film). The Inaugural movie will be Riding the Stallion of a Dream of Girish Kasaravalli.

In addition to the exhibition of films there will be numerous side events related to Indian culture that will make this event unique in Barcelona.

PROGRAMME

Friday 2 December

Performance of Bollywoodian team : MAGICAL BOLLYWOOD

Saturday 3 December

19:15     Arranged Happiness (Daniela Creutz)

Sunday 4 December

16:30    Arranged Happiness (Daniela Creutz)

20:00    Riding the stallion of a dream (Girish Kasaravalli)

Tuesday 6 December

19:00    I am Sinduthai Sapkal (Anand Mahadevan)

Wednesday 7 December

22:00   The Way Home (Dr Biju)

Thursday 8 December

22:00     Dharm (Bhavna Talwar)

Saturday 10 December

16:30    Dharm (Bhavna Talwar)

Tuesday 13 December

20:00    No Smoking (Anurag Kashyap)

Friday 16 December

19:00    The Way Home (Dr Biju)

Thursday 29 December

19:00    Riding the stallion of a dream (Girish Kasaravalli)

Dates : 2 - 29 December
Venue : Filmoteca de Catalunya
Tickets : 3€

Organizer: ImagineIndia and Asian Films
Sponsors: Mortiz, Mayura and Sogo.
Collaborators: University of Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Coordinator of Film and Video Festival of Catalonia.

WOJCIECH J. HAS at Imagineindia 2012 (17 - 31 May)

2011-10-06T13:02:00.002+02:00

Wojciech J. Has at the eleventh edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival due to in May 2012. With the collaboration of : Instituto Polaco de Cultura and Filmoteca Española.

One of the most importante cult filmmaker from Poland, J. Has has been showed at Filmoteca Española more than 10 years back. In 2012 Imagineindia come back to this great polish director with the following films :

SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT
MEMOIRS OF A SINNER
THE WRITER
THE HOUR GLASS SANATORIUM
LES TRIBULATIONS DE BALTHAZAR KOBER

NEW ZEALAND as Invited country at Imagineindia 2012

2011-08-08T17:06:00.002+02:00

New Zealand will be one of the invited countries at the eleventh edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2012. Wilde nature, plain horizons, tough guys, remembrance of aborigin ancestors, makes of this filmography something special. Six film will be participating at Imagineindia, among them are :

THIS WAY OF LIFE (Thomas Burstyn, 2009)
One Man, One Cow, One Planet (Barbara Burstyn, 2008)
OPERATION 8 (Errol Wright, Abi King Jones, 2011)
THE INSATIABLE MOON (Rosemary Riddell, 2010)

This section has been curated by Gen Hewett.

View Trailer :
http://www.vimeo.com/27200104

BANGALORE International Film Festival (Call for Entries)

2011-08-08T12:33:00.000+02:00

BENGALURU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - 2011

Profile

     We are pleased to announce the 4th edition of BIFFES, the Bengaluru International Film Festival, from 15th to 22nd December, 2011. This edition of the festival will be bigger in scope and ambition thanks to the Government of Karnataka, which has responded to the aspirations of the film fraternity of the state and announced annual budgetary funding and support for the festival. The event is being organised and conducted by Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy, founded by the government to promote cinema culture and education.
     For Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, to aspire to and emerge as an important centre of international film culture is in keeping with Karnataka's glorious heritage and the state's achievements in the fields of literature, fine arts and cinema. The Kannada film industry has made signal contributions to the quality and range of Indian cinematic expression and grown to produce over a 100 feature films every year. Films from Karnataka have won national and international recognition and critical acclaim at various film festivals.
     The 4th BIFFES will feature both Competition and non-Competition sections. Selection of the films to be invited for screening at the competition will be made by an expert committee and prizes will be awarded by jury panels comprising Indian and international members.

The Competition Section itself will be in four categories:

1. International category for feature films:

Awards instituted by Government of Karnataka; International Jury

Best film Award: GOLDEN BERUNDA
Cash Award of Rs. 10,00,000 (approx. US $20,000)

Best Director Award: SILVER BERUNDA
Cash Award of Rs. 5,00,000 (approx US $10,000)

Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Jan 2010 and 15th June 2011.

2. Asian cinema category

Award from Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce; Netpac Jury

Cash Prize: Rs 2,00,000/- (approx: US $ 4,000)

Films made in the Asian Continent
Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Jan 2010 and 15th June 2011.

3. Chitrabharathi: Indian cinema category.

Award from Suchitra Film Society; FIPRESCI Jury

Best film award: SUCHITRA SANMAN
Cash Prize: Rs 2,00,000/- (approx: US $
4,000)

Indian language films.
Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Sept 2010 and 31st Aug 2011.

4. Kannada cinema category

Award: Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy; Film Societies' Jury.

Cash Prize: Rs. 2,00,000/- (approx: US$ 4,000)
Films in the languages of Karnataka
Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Sept 2010 and 31st Aug 2011.

Guidelines for both Competition and non-Competition Sections:

• Film submission formats: 35mm, Digi-Beta and international-standard digital
format
• Films must be sub-titled in English

Competition Section

o Films entered in competition sections of the other festivals in India are also
eligible.
o No screening charges will be paid for the films.
o One representative - Producer or Director or any authorized representative -
is entitled for travel (economy class- return airfare) and local hospitality at
the festival
o Entries are to be sent in the prescribed form (available on our website) along
with a DVD screener with English Subtitles.

We invite films for Non-Competition section also under the following
categories:

o World Cinema
o Retrospectives & Tributes
o Country Focus
o Special Genre
o Nostalgia

Do visit our website www.biffes.in for details about the film festival, guidelines
and entry forms.

Dates for Imagineindia 2012 (17 - 31 May 2012)

2011-07-19T15:19:00.002+02:00

Imagineindia International Film Festival 2012 will take place in Madrid from 17 to 31 May 2012. More than 13 venues / 60 films from all over the world, invited countries New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Poland / International Competitive Section / 40 Parallel Activities, make of this festival the most important feature film festival of Madrid.

Stock Formula in Bollywood

2011-07-19T13:36:00.002+02:00

If the makers of mainstream potboilers can talk of tried and tested formulas for hits, the producers of porn also have their own proven mantras for success :
COLLEGE EXCURSION : A group of overgrown college students on a field trip, find themselves inexplicably in the middle of a jungle and have to perforce shack up in a deserted guest house or hotel. Generally, the boys and girls are in equal numbers. While the girls pout and pirouette in front of the mirror, bathe in a waterfall or shower, and keep dressing and undressing, the boys busy themselves playing peeping toms, peering into keyholes or through the bushes ... till disaster strikes. The victim is the girl - either of a rapacious ghost in the building or of a mysterious entity who emerges from the jungle on full-moon nights. The heavens choose this very occasion to open up and amidst all the thunder and lightning, the terrified girls cosy up with the boys. Since the telephone and electric lines have conveniently snapped by then, there is no way for them to reach out to civilisation. And in their growing anxiety, with suspense building up, they suddenly discover they were born man and woman !!!!

DEREK BOSE

Imagineindia Screennigs in Portugal

2011-07-07T19:50:00.002+02:00

Imagineindia International Film Festival will screen for the first time in Portugal. Two films of Guru Dutt and Abrar Albi, PYAASA and SHAHIB BIBI AUR GULAM, will be screened for the first time in Lisbon at Portuguese Film Institute in July 2011. These films had been previously shown at the Classic Section of this film festival in Madrid.

"EL SENTIR DE LA VIDA" at Imagineindia 2011

2011-07-02T20:26:00.001+02:00

"EL SENTIR DE LA VIDA" performed at the Closing Gala of the Tenth Edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 at Sala Caracol. ZELIA FERNANDES /Voice / CANDELA OLARTE /Percussion / SELMA LORO / Viola / JORGE HAZOMOON / Hang / RODRÍGO DÍAZ /Dance. All of them made of the Gala one of the best ever done and served us with one of the best moments of the festival,s Closing Gala.

Ananth Mahadevan bags 2nd prize at Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-25T17:46:00.002+02:00

Ananth Mahadevan bags the 2nd prize for Best Film at Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 at the Closing Gala in Madrid for his film MEE SINDHUTAI SAPKAL.

Nandita Das at Imagineindia 2011 (Spanish Film Institute)

2011-06-24T21:22:00.001+02:00

Nandita Das came to Madrid to attend Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011. This is her participation at Spanish Film Institute.

Ballet Monica Tello at the Closing Gala of Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-24T16:57:00.001+02:00

The Ballet of Mónica Tello at the Closing Gala of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 at the Sala Caracol. Fussion - Flamenco is the presenting card of this Ballet.

Disfrutad del baile de fusión-flamenca del Ballet de Mónica Tello en la Gala de Clausura de Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011, que tuvo lugar en la Sala Caracol.

Patricia Alvarez Dance at the Closing Gala of Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-19T19:22:00.002+02:00

You can view the dance of Patricia Alvarez at the Closing Ceremony Gala of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 :

http://www.youtube.com/user/imagineindia?feature=mhee#p/u/0/KTsyhDm0_cU

Performance of Tanusree Shankar (1) at Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-19T13:05:00.000+02:00

You can view the performance of Tanusree Shankar Group at the Inauguration Gala of Imagineindia International Film Festival :

http://www.vimeo.com/25227130

Videos of Presentations and Q&A at Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-11T15:52:00.002+02:00

You can view the presentations of the directors present at Imagineindia 2011.

1 Presentation and Q&A with Ananth Mahadevan (director of the awarded "I am Sindhutai Sapkal" along with the producers Sachin Khanolkar and Bindiya Khanolkar.

2 Presentation and posterior debate with Daniela Creutz (director of the third awarded "Arranged Happiness" with the actor Ashiq Dar and director assistant Gen Hewett.

3 Presentation of Nandita Das (Honorary Award) at Spanish Film Institute.

VIMEO : http://www.vimeo.com/user1281861/videos

YOUTUBE : http://www.youtube.com/user/imagineindia?blend=10&ob=5

Imagineindia continues with the showing of Indian Cinema at Spanish Film Institute

2011-06-11T14:58:00.000+02:00

Wednesday 8

20.00 X ImagineIndia

Sala 2 Char Adhyay / Four Chapters (Kumar Sahani, 1997). Int.: Nandini Ghosal, Kaushik Gopal, Shruti Yusufi. India.

Saturday 11

20.00 X ImagineIndia

Sala 2 Bhavni Bhavai (Un cuento popular, Ketan Mehta, 1980). Int.: Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Mohan Gokhale. India.

Sunday 12

20.00 X ImagineIndia

Sala 2 Pyaasa (Ansiedad, Guru Dutt, 1957). Int.: Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman. India.

Tuesday 14

20.00 X ImagineIndia

Sala 2 Sahib, bibi aur gulam (Amo, ama y sirviente, Abrar Alvi, 1962). Int.: Meena Kumari, Guru Dutt, Rehman. India.

Tuesday 21

19.30 X ImagineIndia

Sala 2 Bhavni Bhavai (Un cuento popular, Ketan Mehta, 1980).

Sunday 26

20.00 X ImagineIndia

Sala 2 Char Adhyay / Four Chapters (Kumar Sahani, 1997).

View PHOTOS and VIDEOS of Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-09T18:02:00.000+02:00

You can view more than 1000 photos and videos of the tenth edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival at the following links :

PHOTOS :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagineindia_film_festival/

VIDEOS :

http://www.vimeo.com/user1281861/videos

View all the photos of Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-06T11:47:00.002+02:00

Imagineindia International Film Festival has come to it,s end. 17 days of film scrennings, theatre, film presentations, dance, music, poem reading, etc.

You can view all the photos at :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagineindia_film_festival/

Coverage of Imagineindia by Spanish Television / Interview to Nandita Das

2011-06-04T14:00:00.000+02:00

You can view the coverage of the Spanish Television,s film programme "Días de Cine" and the interview to Nandita Das at the following link :

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/programa/dias-cine-edicion-imageindia/1119122/

AWARDS / Imagineindia 2011

2011-05-31T17:05:00.000+02:00

The official Jury of different sections has decided to award to the following films :

BEST DIRECTOR : Dr Biju Kumar

BEST FILM : The Way Home (Dr Biju Kumar)

Second Prize : I am Sindhutai Sapkal (Ananth Mahadevan)

Third Prize : Arranged Happiness (Daniela Creutz)

BEST ACTOR : Vijanath Biradar (Riding the Stallion of dreams/ Girish Kasaravalli)

BEST ACTRESS : Tejaswini Pandit (I am Sindhutai Sapkal / Ananth Mahadevan)

BEST MUSIC : Ramesh Narayan (The Way Home/ Dr Biju Kumar)

HOMAGE :

NANDITA DAS

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT :

JUAN PEÑA EL LEBRIJANO

Huge success of the Press Conference Imagineindia 2011

2011-05-15T13:53:00.000+02:00

The Press Conference of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 was a huge success with the attendance of some of the most important personalities of Spanish cultural arena. Among the participants we can count with FERNANDO TRUEBA (Oscar winner), EL GRAN WYOMING (Tv presenter), SERGIO PAZOS (Actor), FARAH HAMED (Actress), IMANOL URIBE (Director), DIEGO FERNÁNDEZ (Director of ICG), QAZI ABDUR RAHIM (Director of Imagineindia).
Lot thanks to all.

View the photos of the Press Conference :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagineindia_film_festival/

NANDITA DAS heading to Imagineindia 2011

2011-05-08T14:01:00.000+02:00

Nandita Das, Ananth Mahadevan, Bindiya Khanolkar, Sachin Khanolkar, Gen Hewett, Karen Zusman, Daniela Creutz, Ashiq Dar, Tanusree Shankar, Victor Banerjee, María de Medeiros, Fernando Trueba, among others will be attending Imagineindia International Film Festival due to from 17 - 31 may 2011.
The tenth edition of this festival held in Madrid will gather more than one star coming out of the blue.

TICKET SELL / TANUSHREE SHANKAR GROUP / CLOSING GALA CEREMONY

2011-05-05T12:48:00.000+02:00

EVENT 1

17th may, 20.00 h, Ateneo de Madrid, C/ Prado 21

Tanushree Shankar Group ("The Child" of Rabindranath Tagore)

10 euros
http://www.codetickets.com/codetickets-ii/en/web/1/

EVENT 2

30th may, 20.30h, Sala Caracol, C/ Bernardino Obregón 18

CLOSING GALA CEREMONY (music, dance, poetry, awards)

12 euros

http://www.codetickets.com/codetickets-ii/en/web/2/

The tickets also can be purchased at the venues before the performance.

PRESS CONFERENCE / IMAGINEINDIA 2011

2011-05-05T12:07:00.001+02:00

PRESS CONFERENCE IMAGINEINDIA 2011

The Press Conference of the tenth edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival will take place on 11th may, at Ateneo de Madrid, C/ Prado 21, 12.00 h.

Among the invitees are : FERNANDO TRUEBA, ANGELA MOLINA, EL GRAN WYOMING, SERGIO PAZOS, TETE DELGADO, IMANOL URIBE, DIEGO FERNÁNDEZ (Director of Gypsy Institute), QAZI ABDUR RAHIM (Director of the festival).

More info about the festival: http://www.imagineindia.net/

Festival photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagineindia_film_festival/collections/72157626032277370/

Festival videos: http://www.vimeo.com/user1281861/videos

Presentation trailer of the festival: http://www.vimeo.com/21479724

Acreditations: http://www.imagineindia.net/eng/Press/Acreditaciones/acreditaciones.php