| MIAAC09 PANELS - FILMINDIA and MIAAC@NYU
MIAAC09 presents two new series of critical discourse on topics related to Indian Film. Please see below for further information on: |
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FILMINDIA: THE MIAAC09 INDUSTRY PANELS Presented by MIAAC in cooperation with KPMG and SAMMA and with collaboration of Saavn and TiE. FILMINDIA brings together, in one place, media/marketing/entertainment professionals, producers, actors and global media entrepreneurs for a series of networking panels on the growing US and Indian entertainment industries during MIAAC 2009.
FILM INDUSTRY AND DIRECTORS RECEPTION: MIAAC @ NYU: Discussions on the Art, Culture and Politics of Indian Cinema MIAAC@NYU is a new series of panel discussions on Indian film and film culture presented by the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Festival in conjunction with the NYU Department of Cinema Studies. The series will bring together eminent filmmakers, scholars and practitioners of Indian film to illuminate aspects of the MIAAC09 Film Festival's program.
The panels are free for festival guests, NYU students and NYWIFT members. A festival ticket stub is required for the general public. ID required at the NYU Security Desk. Festival program and admission information may be found at the Tisch website All MIAAC @ NYU Panels are in Room 648, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway. The only exception is The State of the Indian Screenplay, which is at the Quad Cinema. DIRECTORS SERIES screenings of Well Done Abba and Gulaal are at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, New York University, 36 East 8th Street. Admission is restricted to NYU students and IAAC invitees. THE STATE OF THE INDIAN SCREENPLAY
WELL DONE ABBA (2009) Screening and Discussion. With Shyam Benegal, film director; and Richard Allen, Chair of Cinema Studies at NYU. Presented in collaboration with the NYU Department of Film and Television and screened as a part of their Directors Series. Festival Sidebar - In Frame: Kashmir
RE-FRAMING INDIAN CINEMA Shyam Benegal’s The Seedling (1973), among other films, launched a discussion on the framing of a new kind of Indian cinema: Art Cinema? Parallel? New Indian Cinema? Today, with the emergence another generation of filmmakers both in India and abroad and radically changing conditions of production (digital), ownership (corporate), and distribution (global, multiplex), what does “Indian Cinema” consist of today and what are the terms that define it? With SHYAM BENEGAL , director of Welcome to Sajjanpur; TEJASWINI GANTI, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology of NYU’s Program in Culture & Media; ANURAG KASHYAP, director of Gulaal; and JOSEPH MATHEW-VARGHESE, director of Bombay Summer. RICHARD ALLEN, Chair of Cinema Studies at NYU, will chair the panel.
Screening and Discussion. With Anurag Kashyap, film director; and Gyan Prakash, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University. Presented in collaboration with the NYU Department of Film and Television and screened as a part of their Directors Series.
MY MIAAC: CELL PHONE CINEMA COMPETION Students from Prof. Karl Bardosh's current Cell Phone Cinema class at NYU will shoot still photos and 1-minute short videos on cell phone cameras, with the theme My MIAAC, on any aspect of their personal experience of the MIAAC09 Film Festival. The winner of this cell phone cinema class competition will be selected by photographer, Prabuddha Dasgupta and by Prof. Bardosh and screened at the Awards and Closing Night Gala at the Walter Reade Theater on November 15.
What does queerness look like on the Bollywood screen? How has Indian popular cinema historically provided queer audiences rich material for imagining queer lives, desires and pleasures? How have representations of queerness in Indian cinema changed over the past decade? Queer Bollywood is a playful and innovative presentation with a multitude of film clips, from Sholay (1975) to Fire (1996) and Dostana (2008). Presented by GAYATRI GOPINATH, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU's Program in American Studies .
The increasingly visible queer presence in South Asia is particularly evident in queer-oriented documentaries and feature films by independent filmmakers. How are media artists and activists representing queer culture and issues during changing times in India, as reflected by the recent judgment of the Delhi High Court de-criminalizing gay sex? With SUNIL GUPTA, director of I Want to Live; DEEPTI NAVAL, actor, and director of TwoPaise for Sunshine; and PARMESH SHAHANI, author of Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India (2008). GAYATRI GOPINATH, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU’s Program in American Studies will chair the panel. |
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US and Indian media and entertainment companies and professionals are collaborating, merging, sharing, co-producing and tapping each other’s talent and content as never before to capture the growing global audience. Join fellow US and Indian industry professionals, media entrepreneurs, producers, talent, and those just interested in the industry in exploring changes and opportunities in the industry.
Featuring: Shyam Benegal, Smita Bhide, Rahul Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Aniruddha Roy Choudhury, Sarita Choudhury, Buddhadeb DasGupta, Sangeeta Dutta, Rituparno Ghosh, Sturla Gunnarson, Tracey Jackson, Madhur Jaffrey, Sanjay Kak, Rajit Kapur, Anurag Kashyap, Manisha Koirala, Pooja Kumar, Aasif Mandvi, Nimitt Mankad, Raja Menon, Sudhir Mishra, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Mira Nair, Deepti Naval, Onir, Mehul Shah, Vivek Singhania, Sanjay Suri, Sharmila Tagore, Lalit Vachani, and Joseph Mathew-Varghese.
Saturday November 14, 2009, 6:00PM to 9:00PM at Planet Hollywood (1540 Broadway @ 46th)
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With international co-productions, new talent,and the rise of the urban audience and multiplexes, Indian cinema is increasingly breaking from convention and experimenting with new genres. Panelists will discuss how the corporatization and the emergence of Hollywood studios and new voices in India have impacted scriptwriting in India. With JAVED AKHTAR, screenwriter and lyricist; SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY who scripted and directed Four Chapters, based on the novella by Rabindranath Tagore, and SUDHIR MISHRA, writer and director of Ride the Wave Johnny SABRINA DHAWAN, Professor from NYU’s Department of Dramatic Arts will chair the panel. 
From fictional narratives to documentary, from feature films for the big screen to multi-media and short films on the web, the complexities of Kashmir as investigated and interpreted by filmmakers in India and in the US is the subject of this panel. With JOHN HALPERN producer of two segments for MTV Iggy and his own Kashmir Once Paradise, (in progress); SANJAY KAK, director of the documentary How We Celebrate Freedom; and SANJAY SURI, actor, Sikandar: producer, I AM. GYAN PRAKASH, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University, will chair the panel.
Suggested viewing at MIAAC09: Welcome to Sajjanpur, Gulaal, Bombay Summer
GULAAL (2009)
