The Tribeca Film Festival will start in three weeks in NYC and I hope to attend parts of it. However, there are wonderful festivals around the world that I would love to attend but can’t. For example, I’ve wanted, but been unable, to attend Sundance for the past couple of years.
I am sure this is […]
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Film festivals and the online audience
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Film Festivals and Technology. 5 CommentsThree One-Minute Reviews
Published by November 6th, 2006 in Film Festivals, Perspectives and movies. 0 CommentsOne minute review: Royal Tenenbaums
Directed by Wes Anderson, I LOVED this movie. I’d heard mixed reviews, but this film really got to me. It is a mix of happy and sad, touching and quirky. It does an amazing job of using humor and sarcasm to lighten the mood about life’s difficulties and failings. This messed […]
NY Magazine makes shorts available online
Published by October 15th, 2006 in Film Festivals. 1 CommentThe New York Film Festival is going on and some of the movies I wanted to see sold out immediately. However, I’m also a huge fan of shorts.
NY Magazine selected 5 shorts that they loved and made them available online. I am not sure all of these would have been my picks, and the online […]
By the time day 5 rolled around, I was quite tired. So, I only managed to go to see just one film, but what a brilliant film!
MYSTIC INDIA by Keith Melton is a 45-minute IMAX film. It was the most visually stunning film of the festival. Using the story of Neelkanth, who walked the length […]
SAIFF Day 4, Saturday Evening
Published by October 9th, 2006 in Film Festivals and Perspectives. 0 CommentsSaturday evening started off with three movies — UNTITLED (my short), BLACK AND WHITE and MADE IN INDIA.
UNTITLED by Shripriya Mahesh is a 9 minute narrative short. It is hard to review your own film. But since I finished it almost six months ago, I’ve had some distance from it. Here’s the synopsis
Sanjay and his […]
I saw quite a few really good films on day 3 of SAIFF.
FIVE GUYS FOUR BULLETS, a documentary directed by Karan Singh, is a travelogue of five buds cruising to the highest motorcycle trail in the world on Enfield Bullets. The five guys bike from Delhi to Ladakh and along the way, face various obstacles […]
SAIFF Day 2, Thursday (cont)
Published by October 6th, 2006 in Film Festivals and Perspectives. 0 CommentsHere’s my take on QUARTER LIFE CRISIS by director Kiran Merchant, which I was too tired to post last night.
The theater was packed. Fifty of the seats were reserved for the cast and crew and I was sitting right next to them, so it was amusing to see them laugh at inside jokes (when crew […]
AADUM KOOTHU, by director T V Chandran started the first full day of SAIFF . This is the Malayalam director’s first Tamil film. At the core, the film has an interesting premise — a director is making a movie about an injustice that occurred in his village when he was a child. A landlord […]
This evening was the opening night premiere of the film festival. The organizers did a great job of getting a ton of press to attend and the AMC movie theater at Lincoln Square was packed with about 500 attendees.
The evening started off with the press interviewing some of the filmmakers. The marketing manager did a […]
UNTITLED premiers at SAIFF
Published by October 3rd, 2006 in Film Festivals, Filmmaking and Tatvam. 1 CommentThe South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) is one of two South Asian film festivals in New York. They pride themselves on focusing on emerging directors who are not yet famous.
I certainly fall squarely into that demographic. I’d like to think I am “emerging” and I am definitely “not yet famous”. And so, it was […]
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