Thursday May 12th at 7 pm
Theater 5, Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street.

Tickets: $15, $12 IAAC members


Panelists: Panelists: Mohan Agashe(Marathi), Umesh Kulkarni(Marathi), Pavan Kumar(Kannada), Pratim Das Gupta(Bengali)
Moderated by: Satish Kolluri

Since its inception, the NYIFF has provided a strong platform to showcase the best of regional cinema in India, and and this year is no exception. Films in Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Haryanvi have emerged as a dominant force in the form of new voices and a new stories, whose perspectives represent a refreshing and yet critical take on rooted conflicts and idiosyncrasies in both urban and rural India.This panel will discuss the future of Indian regional cinema in both India and outside India. It includes:

• Challenges in funding beyond NFDC and State Governments' largesse
• Commercial distribution to wider markets
• Stories and Storytelling techniques
• Pan-Indian audiences for regional cinema
• Commercial success and/or critical acclaim
• The success story of Marathi cinema