Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre
Date: 10 September, 2010
Time: 2: 00 p.m
Cinema City: A series of short films on Bombay and cinema.
CERTIFIED UNIVERSAL by Avijit Mukul Kishore
An impressionistic sketch of ‘the public’ as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself.
Official Selection, 60th Berlinale International Film Festival
HAVE YOU DREAMT CINEMA? by Hansa Thapliyal
A cinema theatre in a suburb of cinema city is pulled down. Three women who live in that suburb reflect on their various relationships with that fantasy of a film in a darkened theatre.
Official Selection, 60th Berlinale International Film Festival
DHANANJAY KULKARNI ‘CHANDRAGUPT’ by Rrivu Laha
A journey of migrants to the dream city through the track of filmi aspirations.
DIRECTOR PAINTER SHRI BABURAO LAAD SAHEB by Richa Hushing
The Film portrays the fascinating character of actor, director, cameraman, producer, painter Baburao, who runs 5 Star Acting Class in Asia’s biggest slum Dharavi.
Time: 3: 00 p.m.
Discussion with Madhusree Dutta, Majlis
Time: 3: 30 p.m.
‘Zinda Laash’
Directed by Bishakha Datta
A film about the representation of sex workers in Bollywood.
Date: 13 September, 2010
Time: 7: 30 p.m
BURMA VJ – REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY
Synopsis: Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. In 2007, more than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more than 40 years. Foreign news crews were banned, the Internet was shut down and Burma was closed to the outside world. So how did we witness these events? Enter the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), aka the Burma VJs. Compiled from the shaky handheld footage of the DVB, Burma VJ pulls us into the heat of the moment as the VJs themselves become the target of the Burmese government.
- World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Sundance Film Festival
- Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award: Investigative Documentary Feature, San Francisco International Film Festival
- The VPRO Joris Ivens Award and Movies That Matter Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
- Cinema for Peace International Human Rights Film Award, Berlinale
- Movies that Matter Human Rights Award and Special Mention, ZagrebDox,Croatia
- Vaclav Havel Special Award and Student Jury Award, One World Film Festival
- Audience Award, 11th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
- Anne Dellinger Grand Jury Award, Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award and Full Frame / Working Films Award, Full Frame Documentary Festival
- The Golden Butterfly, Amnesty International’s A Matter of ACT Documentary Award and MovieSquad All Rights Award, Amnesty International’s Movies that Matter Festival
- Investigative Documentary Feature Award, San Francisco International Film Festival
- Best Cinema Documentary, Grierson British Documentary Awards, UK
- Audience award, Verzio 6 Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary
- Nominated for Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Official Website: www.burmavjmovie.com
The film will soon be available at www.ucfilms.in