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Shaunak Sen’s 'All That Breathes', Vinay Shukla’s Ravish Kumar-starrer 'While We Watched' win Peabody Awards in Documentary category
'All That Breathes' and 'While We Watched' are the second and third Indian films to win a Peabody, after Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s 'Writing With Fire' bagged the award in 2023. 'All That Breathes' and 'Writing With Fire' were nominated for the Oscars in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
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This LSD 2: Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 actor’s indie film ‘It’s All in Your Head’ is an intimate portrayal of small-town youth
If Dibakar Banerjee introduced Miss Trans Queen India 2019 Bonita Rajpurohit among the fresh faces in his just-released 'LSD 2', Dhruv Solanki's debut independent feature 'It's All in Your Head', streaming on Gudsho, zooms in on a day in the life of Bonita and her cousins who are Americanised young people in small-town Vadodara.
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After Chamkila fever, watch this documentary film on the Mirasi folk singers of Punjab
A documentary celebrating the history of Punjab’s Muslim women singers of the Mirasi community will be screened in Delhi and online.
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Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine As Light' breaks India’s 30-year Cannes Film Festival Competition stalemate
The last Indian film to compete for the coveted Palme d'Or award was the Malayalam film 'Swaham' by director Shaji N Karun in 1994. Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine As Light' scripted history by becoming the first Indian title after 30 years to feature in Cannes Main Competition.
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Who was the real Amar Singh Chamkila? The slain Dalit singer who became the Elvis of Punjab during insurgency
Chamkila reigned supreme in Punjab's music landscape, from 1979 to 1988, with songs as social commentary: from risqué themes to Punjab's reality of drug abuse, alcoholism, illicit affairs, dowry, etc. The duo Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur's legacy remains unmatched.
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Chandigarh to host its first International Film Festival in March 2024, announces the film lineup
Chandigarh will witness its very first international film festival, Cinevesture International Film Festival (CIFF), from March 27-31, steered by Cinevesture founder-CEO Nina Lath, the force who'd started India's NFDC Film Bazaar.
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96th Oscars | Godzilla Minus One: Why the Academy took 70 years to award a Godzilla movie?
Japan's Godzilla Minus One, which won the 96th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, is the first ever nomination and win at the Academy Awards ever for the Godzilla franchise. Takashi Yamazaki is only the second director to win the VFX category in Oscars' history.
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Why Oppenheimer will likely be the 2024 Oscars Best Picture winner?
The preferential ballot or ranked choice voting system for the Oscars Best Picture can benefit a film like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Even if it’s not everyone’s absolute favourite, voters who rank it highly on their ballots can contribute to its overall score and a strong performance across the board can lead to victory.
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96th Oscars: How the Oscars Best Picture is selected: criteria, ranking system and timeline
The voting process for the Academy Award for Best Picture is complicated, done by preferential ballot, aka ranked choice voting. In addition to voting within their relevant branch/field, all Academy members are eligible to nominate films for Best Picture award.
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Oscars 2024 Predictions: Who will win the Best Documentary Short Film?
Oscars Awards 2024: Last year at the Oscars, India created history by bagging the Best Documentary Short Film award for Karthiki Gonsalves' 'The Elephant Whisperers'. This year, the American documentary 'The Last Repair Shop' might take home the said award at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.
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Oscar Predictions 2024: Who will win the Best Documentary Feature Film?
Last year at the Oscars, the documentary 'Navalny' bagged the top prize. The Russian Opposition leader died in prison last month. This year, Ukraine's '20 Days in Mariupol' might take home the said award at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.
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Women’s Day 2024: 10 women in Hollywood & beyond who changed the gender narrative
On International Women's Day, March 8, a look at a handful of women in the business of entertainment, in the West, leading from the front, contributing in ways big and small, to demand for women's rights and pay parity.
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Ameen Sayani’s Geetmala: How the British and a ban birthed a key chapter in free India’s sonic history
When All India Radio banned the transmission of Hindi film songs, Ameen Sayani's Binaca Geetmala, on Sri Lanka's Radio Ceylon, from a former British military radio, would broadcast Bollywood songs and simple Hindustani, connecting the subcontinent's masses.
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Matthew Perry: How could the BAFTA snub television’s most-loved funny character in recent history?
The British Film and Television Academy Awards (BAFTA), forgot to remember the American-Canadian actor Mathew Perry who shone in that iconic British department: wry sarcasm.
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Why Bollywood should watch this Shahrukhkhan’s humanist tale of ordinary Muslim life
Kayo Kayo Colour? (What Colour?), by Shahrukhkhan Chavada, an independent filmmaker from Ahmedabad, is a stirring poetic ode to the ordinariness of his community’s life rarely seen on the big screen in India.
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IFFR 2024 | ‘Meera wanted Radha to exist, as a better version of herself, to reach Krishna’: Anirban Dutta
Independent filmmaker Anirban Dutta, whose second feature Anubhuti premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, talks about his highly stylised film on Krishna-devotee Meera's literature and not her life, and the need for slow cinema in India today.
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‘Pulicat Lake fisherfolk have nostalgia for their changing world and for food’: Short film Virundhu director Rishi Chandna
Rishi Chandna's third short film, The Feast (Virundhu), part of an anthology, set near Pulicat Lake in Tamil Nadu, will premiere at world’s biggest short film festival and France’s second largest film festival after Cannes, the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (February 2-10).
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IFFR 2024 | Animator Ishan Shukla: ‘Ramayana is much better than The Odyssey or Game of Thrones because it is so tragic’
After a short for 2023 Star Wars animated anthology, Vadodara-based Shukla’s ‘Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust’ premieres at IFFR Rotterdam. He talks about Ramayana, polarised world, using AI and cinema legends for his motion capture animation feature.
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Ram Ke Naam maker Anand Patwardhan’s historic personal turn in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
The veteran documentary filmmaker’s latest film Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam/The World is Family, which won Best Editing Award at IDFA Amsterdam 2023, is a remembrance of things past: of pre-Independence India through his family’s history.
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How indigenous filmmaker Chhatrapal Ninawe made Ghaath, a rare Adivasi thriller, and fought to save it
The debut feature has the rare feat of having been re-invited by the prestigious Berlinale last year for a premiere after it was retracted following a legal tussle between its producers.
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How this India-US womxn collective uses fiscal sponsorship to save the documentary film
Born out of the pandemic in 2021, Bitchitra Collective fosters Indian women and nonbinary non-fiction filmmakers in the US and India, those left stranded by Films Division’s closure, and is calling filmmakers to apply for its grants till December 30.
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Karan Tejpal’s Stolen is a solid action thriller on mob lynching and child lifting in India
Tejpal’s debut crime thriller premiered at Venice International Film Festival, won Special Mention at Zurich Film Festival, found global distributor in Paris-based Charades but awaits a distributor in its country of origin where movies are privately funded.
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MC Exclusive | How Malaysian Oscar entry Tiger Stripes is inspired by 1950s cult Malay female ghost created by a Kerala man
Malaysia’s 2024 Academy Awards entry Tiger Stripes, Amanda Nell Eu’s debut film about puberty and monsters, inspired by 1950s horror cult Pontianak by BN Rao, showed in India after screening at AFI Fest 2023.
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‘Queer representation in films and television is still lacking a lot’: Greek director Zacharias Mavroeidis
Greek director Zacharias Mavroeidis' 'The Summer with Carmen', which showed at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, is a spin on the classic rom-com that wears the rainbow shades with pride.
