The first edition of India’s Cinevesture International Film Festival (Ciff) has revealed 20 projects that will participate in its accompanying market.
Comprising 17 features and three series, several of the projects are by creators who have found acclaim both internationally and in South Asia.
From Bangladeshi auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Busan title “Something Like an Autobiography”) comes Hindi and English-language unconventional romance “To Hell With Love.” Alankrita Srivasttava (Tokyo winner “Lipstick Under My Burkha”) has English and Hindi-language drama “Girls of Orlem,” an adaptation of Lindsay Pereira’s bestselling novel “Gods and Ends.” Gurvinder Singh is prepping Hindi, Punjabi and English-language historical thriller series “The Trial.”
“#Jack” is a thriller film from Bhaskar Hazarika (Tribeca selection “Aamis”), while “Chhaal” (“The Skin”) by Don Palathara (Rotterdam title “Family”) is a folk thriller adapted from a story by Vijayan Detha. “Encounter” by Anurag Singh (the Jatt and Juliet franchise) is a drama-thriller in...
Comprising 17 features and three series, several of the projects are by creators who have found acclaim both internationally and in South Asia.
From Bangladeshi auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Busan title “Something Like an Autobiography”) comes Hindi and English-language unconventional romance “To Hell With Love.” Alankrita Srivasttava (Tokyo winner “Lipstick Under My Burkha”) has English and Hindi-language drama “Girls of Orlem,” an adaptation of Lindsay Pereira’s bestselling novel “Gods and Ends.” Gurvinder Singh is prepping Hindi, Punjabi and English-language historical thriller series “The Trial.”
“#Jack” is a thriller film from Bhaskar Hazarika (Tribeca selection “Aamis”), while “Chhaal” (“The Skin”) by Don Palathara (Rotterdam title “Family”) is a folk thriller adapted from a story by Vijayan Detha. “Encounter” by Anurag Singh (the Jatt and Juliet franchise) is a drama-thriller in...
- 3/18/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
“Spirit of NY”, a film festival will be organized by the American Center, New Delhi and Taj Enlighten Film Society from September 9-11, 2011. Seven films set in the city of New York will be screened as part of the festival at the American Center, New Delhi.
The festival will also feature a 3D photographic exhibition of the various landmarks of New York.
The films to be screened at the festival are:
September 9:
6 Pm: My Man Godfrey, dir: Gregory Le Cava
September 10:
12 Pm: On the Town, dir: Stanley Donen
3 Pm: The Apartment, dir: Billy Wilder
6 Pm: Annie Hall, dir: Woody Allen
September 11:
12 Pm: Manhattan, dir: Woody Allen
3 Pm: Coming to America, dir: John Landis
6 Pm: Six Degrees of Separation, dir: Schepisi
Manhattan will be introduced by independent filmmaker Sona Jain and Gautam, editor of online film journal Projectorhead will introduce Annie Hall.
The festival will also feature a 3D photographic exhibition of the various landmarks of New York.
The films to be screened at the festival are:
September 9:
6 Pm: My Man Godfrey, dir: Gregory Le Cava
September 10:
12 Pm: On the Town, dir: Stanley Donen
3 Pm: The Apartment, dir: Billy Wilder
6 Pm: Annie Hall, dir: Woody Allen
September 11:
12 Pm: Manhattan, dir: Woody Allen
3 Pm: Coming to America, dir: John Landis
6 Pm: Six Degrees of Separation, dir: Schepisi
Manhattan will be introduced by independent filmmaker Sona Jain and Gautam, editor of online film journal Projectorhead will introduce Annie Hall.
- 9/6/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Onir’s I Am will open the 13th edition of the London Asian Film festival which will take place from March 18-27, 2011.
The other films that will be screened in the festival are Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella, Murali Subramani’s Natural Selection, Sona Jain’s For Real, Rakesh Mehta’s Khudakhushi, Avantika Hari’s Land Gold Women, Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live, Laurens Corneliz Postma’s The Interview, S M Raju’s Varnam, Rajeev Patil’s Jogwa, Sundaran’s Thittukudi, Andrew Piddington’s Killing of John Lennon, Sander Francken’s BardSongs, Jeet Matharru’s Women from the East, Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, Nayan Padrai’s When Harry tries to Marry and Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s Pankh.
Ajay Naidu’s Ashes will be the closing film of the festival.
The short films which will compete in the festival are : Wild Things by Sandeep Sharma, The Invigilator by Manesh Nesaratnam,...
The other films that will be screened in the festival are Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella, Murali Subramani’s Natural Selection, Sona Jain’s For Real, Rakesh Mehta’s Khudakhushi, Avantika Hari’s Land Gold Women, Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live, Laurens Corneliz Postma’s The Interview, S M Raju’s Varnam, Rajeev Patil’s Jogwa, Sundaran’s Thittukudi, Andrew Piddington’s Killing of John Lennon, Sander Francken’s BardSongs, Jeet Matharru’s Women from the East, Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, Nayan Padrai’s When Harry tries to Marry and Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s Pankh.
Ajay Naidu’s Ashes will be the closing film of the festival.
The short films which will compete in the festival are : Wild Things by Sandeep Sharma, The Invigilator by Manesh Nesaratnam,...
- 3/2/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The first step towards setting up a Chapter of Wift (Women in Film & Television) in India was announced on 24th October, 2010 at the 12th Mumbai Film Festival at an aptly titled panel discussion on 'Emerging Women Filmmakers in India'. The panellists at this forum included Nandita Das, Sooni Taraporewala, Anusha Rizvi, Leena Yadav, Sona Jain and Rajshree Ojha. Following the announcement, they signed up for the Chapter membership along with the other women present in the audience. The Wift Mumbai Chapter will be a membership-based organization. The main focus will be to give professional support, networking opportunities, and recognition to women in the film and media industry in India. Following in the footsteps of Wift Chapters around the globe, the aim is to provide year-round professional development, leadership skills and production training for women in screen-based media. The programming will be based on research to meet the needs of the...
- 10/30/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
September 28, 2010: The recently released movie For Real is written, directed and produced by young lady Sona Jain, who has struggled a lot to raise fund to produce her movie. The multitalented Sona is a rare Indian ‘English’ filmmaker of recent times, who have won so many awards.
Sona has waited eight years with this wonderful script to find someone to produce it. She has shown that a person with good idea, skill and determination can do it. Usually, many men can be found with such patience and determination but a woman filmmaker with such a strong determination is rare in India.
The director.
Sona has waited eight years with this wonderful script to find someone to produce it. She has shown that a person with good idea, skill and determination can do it. Usually, many men can be found with such patience and determination but a woman filmmaker with such a strong determination is rare in India.
The director.
- 9/28/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
After working with the likes of Denzel Washington in Mississippi Masala and Paul Giamatti in Lady In The Water, American actor of Indian origin, Sarita Choudhury will be seen opposite Keanu Reeves. “The film is untitled as we speak,” Choudhary says, insisting that she’s been asked to stay tight-lipped about the film’s story. “It’s an independent feature, expected to release next year.” The actor, the leading lady in Sona Jain’s For Real that’s currently playing in theatres, says she has always been inclined towards Indie cinema. “But New York hardly makes such movies anymore,” Choudhury laments.“I ...
- 9/21/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Rating: **
‘For Real’ is told from the eyes of a little girl (Zoya Hassan) who has some definite haunting images of her past. An intrinsically scared kid who goes into a shell every time she comes in touch with her mother (Sarita) only to become a lot happier when in company of her father (Adil), Zoya isn’t one of those normal childs. She sees flashes from the past where she finds her mother cajoling her in an open field or being all troubled within her own household. With director Sona Jain not allowing any image to last beyond a flash, there is curiosity.
‘For Real’ is told from the eyes of a little girl (Zoya Hassan) who has some definite haunting images of her past. An intrinsically scared kid who goes into a shell every time she comes in touch with her mother (Sarita) only to become a lot happier when in company of her father (Adil), Zoya isn’t one of those normal childs. She sees flashes from the past where she finds her mother cajoling her in an open field or being all troubled within her own household. With director Sona Jain not allowing any image to last beyond a flash, there is curiosity.
- 9/17/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
And quietly slips the night into a tortured morning-time light. While watching the muffled muted voices looking for a way to express themselves in the well-ordered sparkling-clean environment of a upper middleclass household in Delhi in For Real, we often feel a sense of smothered compulsion waiting to be liberated.
And how liberating is the freedom that Priya Singh Shukla(played with brutal honesty by Sarita Choudhury) seeks out? She has given up what she thinks was a promising career in singing for her husband and children. (Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anuradha meets Manisha Koirala in Mansoor Khan's Akele Hum Akele Tum).
And now confused beyond self-realization by contemporary definitions of a successful life Priya may yet again abandon her family to pursue her dreams.
We are not allowed to be judgemental about the u-turns that Priya takes in the journey of life. Debutant director Sona Jain has composed a slight...
And how liberating is the freedom that Priya Singh Shukla(played with brutal honesty by Sarita Choudhury) seeks out? She has given up what she thinks was a promising career in singing for her husband and children. (Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anuradha meets Manisha Koirala in Mansoor Khan's Akele Hum Akele Tum).
And now confused beyond self-realization by contemporary definitions of a successful life Priya may yet again abandon her family to pursue her dreams.
We are not allowed to be judgemental about the u-turns that Priya takes in the journey of life. Debutant director Sona Jain has composed a slight...
- 9/15/2010
- Bollyspice
Grammy-award winning tabla maestro Zakir Hussain returns to films as a composer with Sona Jain’s For Real, seven years after his last, One Dollar Curry. And since the film’s main character, played by Sarita Choudhary, is a jazz singer, Hussain’s self-confessedly “had fun” while scoring for the film.“I think this is the first time in Bollywood that a live jazz orchestra quartet has been used in the background of a movie,” says Hussain. “Since music is an integral part of the story and the lead character is a club singer, I thought the songs should be recorded live to get ...
- 9/14/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
New Delhi, Sep 14 – Busy parents, lonely children, career over family, surrogacy — debutant directors Anup Das and Sona Jain will throw light on the problems faced by urban couples in their first outings ‘Life Express’ and ‘For Real’ respectively. Both the films are releasing Friday.
While Das’ maiden attempt, ‘Life Express’, deals with surrogate motherhood, Sona Jain’s first venture, ‘For Real’ is about the dilemma of children staying in nuclear families in metros.
Inspired by real-life.
While Das’ maiden attempt, ‘Life Express’, deals with surrogate motherhood, Sona Jain’s first venture, ‘For Real’ is about the dilemma of children staying in nuclear families in metros.
Inspired by real-life.
- 9/14/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Raised across the globe and living out of a suitcase, Indian origin actress Sarita Choudhury, best known for her role in .Kama Sutra., wants to shift base to India to make her life .culturally rich.. She also wants to learn an Indian language but isn.t sure if Bollywood is the place for her..I was raised around the world. I wasn.t raised in America but my work has been there and you start wanting to draw from where you come from. There is a limit to that and that.s what it is,. Sarita, 44, told Ians in an interview here..I want my life to match my work now. I don.t want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place,. added the New York-based half-Bengali, half English actress..I want to (shift base to India). People think I don.t want to come back.
- 9/12/2010
- Filmicafe
In a time when very few people get to enter North Korea, an Indian film, For Real, by debutant writer-director, Sona Jain, has been invited to play at Dpr Korea’s premiere film festival, 12th Pyogyang International Film Festival that runs from September 17 to 26.Interestingly, For Real also releases in theatres across India on the same date, September 17. “I am grateful for the opportunity to represent my country there. Cinema speaks a universal language and For Real’s selection proves that no matter what the external situations in life may be, inside all human beings are the same,” says Jain.The ...
- 9/9/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
New Delhi, Sep 6 – Debutante director Sona Jain, whose human drama ‘For Real’, about the dilemma of children staying in metros, has been invited to compete at the Pyongyang International Film Festival, says she is ‘completely blown away by the honour’.
Having already covered quite a few film festivals across the world, the English language movie starring Sarita Choudhury with original songs by tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, will participate in the competition section of the North Korean gala starting Sep 17.
‘I.
Having already covered quite a few film festivals across the world, the English language movie starring Sarita Choudhury with original songs by tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, will participate in the competition section of the North Korean gala starting Sep 17.
‘I.
- 9/6/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
The second edition of the International Film Festival of Ahmedabad will be held from 4th August to 8th August 2010. The opening ceremony will take place at Karnavati club while all the film screenings at PVR Cinemas.
The opening film for the festival is India’s official entry to Oscars in 2009 Harishchandrachi factory by Paresh Mokashi. The independent feature film category has a line up with each of the eight films in the competition having won several prestigious awards. The films in competition are The White Elephant by Aijaz Khan, Missed Call by Gaurav Sengupta, Pancham Unmixed by Brahmananda Singh, Man’s Woman and Other Stories by Amit Dutta, Vihir by Umesh Kulkarni, For Real by Sona Jain, Clerk by Subhadro Choudhury and 13th Floor by Luke Kenny.
The festival has tied up with Whistling Woods International for a filmmaking workshop by Anjum Rajabali, Screenwriter and Somnath Sen, Director. It will...
The opening film for the festival is India’s official entry to Oscars in 2009 Harishchandrachi factory by Paresh Mokashi. The independent feature film category has a line up with each of the eight films in the competition having won several prestigious awards. The films in competition are The White Elephant by Aijaz Khan, Missed Call by Gaurav Sengupta, Pancham Unmixed by Brahmananda Singh, Man’s Woman and Other Stories by Amit Dutta, Vihir by Umesh Kulkarni, For Real by Sona Jain, Clerk by Subhadro Choudhury and 13th Floor by Luke Kenny.
The festival has tied up with Whistling Woods International for a filmmaking workshop by Anjum Rajabali, Screenwriter and Somnath Sen, Director. It will...
- 8/1/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Ustad Zakir Hussain has lent his musical talent to Bollywood after nearly a decade. After Aparna Sen’s National Award-winning film, Mr and Mrs Iyer, the tabla maestro has composed and written five tracks for Sona Jain’s upcoming movie, For Real, along with brother and fellow percussionist, Taufiq Qureshi. “I wrote and composed the five songs, How funny (lyrical)…, Puppeteer…, Plastic doll…, How funny (concert version)… and Separation song… around the same time that we wrote the music for Mr and Mrs Iyer. But For Real is only releasing now,” says Hussain, who, unlike in Mr ...
- 7/12/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Indian origin actress Sarita Choudhury, best known for her roles in Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love and Mississippi Masala, will be seen on Indian screens again, this time in an emotional drama titled For Real.“My role in For Real is that of a mother of two kids who gave up a singing career in London and moved to India to be a housewife,” Sarita, 43, said in an e-mail interview from New York.Directed, written and produced by an Indian, Sona Jain, the film is slated to release in India in August and Sarita is expected ...
- 7/10/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Hollywood is just closer geographically and ideologically,” says actor Sarita Choudhury. The 44-year-old London-born Nri, made her debut on the Indian screen with Mira Nair’s controversial release, Kama Sutra, in 1996. Choudhury will now appear in her second Indian movie, as the lead in Sona Jain’s upcoming crossover movie, For Real.To be released sometime in August, Choudhury plays a mother who’s fighting to save her marriage and her child’s sanity. It’s taken Choudhury 14 years to make her Bollywood comeback. “I live in New York, so I don’t get that many Indian scripts. Also, I have been oddly shy in promoting ...
- 7/8/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
2009 Asian Festival of 1st Films Awards 2009 Asian Festival of 1st Films: Singapore, Nov. 28-Dec. 4, 2009 Kazuko Yoshiyuki in Looking for Anne, the story of a young woman looking for the wartime lover of her grandmother on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of the Green Gables. Best Film: Looking for Anne Takako Miyahira Best Documentary: Superman of Malegaon Faiza Ahmad Khan Best Producer: For Real Sona Jain Best Director: Looking for Anne Takako Miyahira Best Director of Documentary: Addicted in Afghanistan Jawed Taiman and Superman of Malegaon Faiza Ahmad Khan Best Male Actor: For Real Sriharsh Sharma Churai Best Female Actor: For Real Zoya S. Hasan Best Screenplay (tie): For Real, Sona Jain and Land Gold Woman Avantika Hari Best Cinematographer / [...]...
- 12/7/2009
- by Irene Young
- Alt Film Guide
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- 12/6/2009
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
New Delhi, Dec 6 (Ians) Debutant director Sona Jain’s feature film “For Real” has won four awards at the Asian Festival of First Films in Singapore.
“For Real” was awarded the best actress award for Hassan, best actor for Sharmam, best screenplay and best producer for Jain at the fest that concluded Dec 4.
Starring child actors Zoya S. Hassan, Sriharsh Sharmam and Sarita Choudhury, the film has been written and produced by Jain. It tells the story of a family living in New Delhi seen through the eyes of a six-year old girl.
The panel of judges who chose the film unanimously included Chris Lee, president of production, Columbia-Tristar Pictures, Australian Film Director Anna Kokkinos and Bollywood.
“For Real” was awarded the best actress award for Hassan, best actor for Sharmam, best screenplay and best producer for Jain at the fest that concluded Dec 4.
Starring child actors Zoya S. Hassan, Sriharsh Sharmam and Sarita Choudhury, the film has been written and produced by Jain. It tells the story of a family living in New Delhi seen through the eyes of a six-year old girl.
The panel of judges who chose the film unanimously included Chris Lee, president of production, Columbia-Tristar Pictures, Australian Film Director Anna Kokkinos and Bollywood.
- 12/6/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Debutant director Sona Jain's feature film 'For Real' has won four awards at the Asian Festival of First Films in Singapore.'For Real' was awarded the best actress award for Hassan, best actor for Sharmam, best screenplay and best producer for Jain at the fest that concluded Dec 4.Starring child actors Zoya S. Hassan, Sriharsh Sharmam and Sarita Choudhury, the film has been written and produced by Jain. It tells the story of a family living in New Delhi seen through the eyes of a six-year old girl.The panel of judges who chose the film unanimously included Chris Lee, president of production, Columbia-Tristar Pictures, Australian Film Director Anna Kokkinos and Bollywood director Kabir Khan.'For Real' had its world premiere Nov 28 at the International Film Festival of India in Goa.Jain graduated from New York University' Tisch School of the Arts and also has a...
- 12/6/2009
- Filmicafe
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