Film Bazaar: Experts also praise Film Bazaar Co-Production Market’s new video pitching style.
Buyers and festival programmers were buzzing about a number of titles at Film Bazaar 2016, including Kabir Mehta’s Buddhagram, an inventive documentary with risqué scenes from the life of a flamboyant cricketer.
Another hot title, also in Film Bazaar Recommends, is Atanu Mukherjee’s Unknown Faces (Rukh), a Hindi-language drama about an 18-year-old boy dealing with a family tragedy.
Three documentaries making waves with international visitors are Vrinda Samartha’s English-language Limitless about female marathon runners; Rupak Das’ A Dream Document about young Mumbaikars who dream of stardom; and serial killer story The Karma Killings by Ram Devineni and Tushar Parekh.
Festival programmers were also keen on My Son Is Gay [pictured], a Tamil fiction feature by Lokesh R; and Marathi-language socially relevant horror film Hide N Seek (Lapachhapi) by Vishal Furia.
The industry was also buzzing about two Malayalam films: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s fantasy...
Buyers and festival programmers were buzzing about a number of titles at Film Bazaar 2016, including Kabir Mehta’s Buddhagram, an inventive documentary with risqué scenes from the life of a flamboyant cricketer.
Another hot title, also in Film Bazaar Recommends, is Atanu Mukherjee’s Unknown Faces (Rukh), a Hindi-language drama about an 18-year-old boy dealing with a family tragedy.
Three documentaries making waves with international visitors are Vrinda Samartha’s English-language Limitless about female marathon runners; Rupak Das’ A Dream Document about young Mumbaikars who dream of stardom; and serial killer story The Karma Killings by Ram Devineni and Tushar Parekh.
Festival programmers were also keen on My Son Is Gay [pictured], a Tamil fiction feature by Lokesh R; and Marathi-language socially relevant horror film Hide N Seek (Lapachhapi) by Vishal Furia.
The industry was also buzzing about two Malayalam films: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s fantasy...
- 11/24/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Chennai, April 23: Anupama Kumar, a well-known southern actress, will be seen in
upcoming Hindi independent film "My Son Is Gay" and she wonders why it is a big deal to act in such films.
"My Son Is Gay" is about an emotional journey of a mother who finds out that her son is gay.
"I don't understand why it is a big deal to act in this film. It's just another film with a story I feel needs to be told to create some awareness. To all those who are asking me why I'm doing this film, I would like to say why not," Anupama told Ians.
"People are asking me like I've done something revolutionary by agreeing.
upcoming Hindi independent film "My Son Is Gay" and she wonders why it is a big deal to act in such films.
"My Son Is Gay" is about an emotional journey of a mother who finds out that her son is gay.
"I don't understand why it is a big deal to act in this film. It's just another film with a story I feel needs to be told to create some awareness. To all those who are asking me why I'm doing this film, I would like to say why not," Anupama told Ians.
"People are asking me like I've done something revolutionary by agreeing.
- 4/23/2014
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Chennai, April 10: Chennai-based independent filmmaker Lokesh, currently working on a crowd-funded gay-themed Hindi film titled "My Son Is Gay", says the city is still "conservative" and that is why "I didn't make the film in Tamil".
"Since it's a gay-themed film, I don't think everybody would accept it. Except for places like Bombay and Bangalore where we have Lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) film festivals, I feel audiences in other places of the country are close-minded," Lokesh told Ians in an interview.
In a recent online poll conducted by Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, the most gay-friendly.
"Since it's a gay-themed film, I don't think everybody would accept it. Except for places like Bombay and Bangalore where we have Lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) film festivals, I feel audiences in other places of the country are close-minded," Lokesh told Ians in an interview.
In a recent online poll conducted by Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, the most gay-friendly.
- 4/10/2014
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
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