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    sehs'¼chte festival 09 – CALL FOR ENTRIES
    Hey Guys – Just posting this for info… Don’t comment or write to me but directly to Arne at the email addresses supplied below. Cheers Partho Sehsuechte International Student Film Festival Dear filmmakers, we are preparing next years sehs'¼chte festival – sehs'¼chte is the biggest international film festival for student and amateur films in...
    by PSji at February 4th, 2009 at 05:02 am
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    Call for Entries – Berlinale Talent Campus
    hey guys, I am at the Pusan film festival and my friend from the Berlinale, Dorothee Wenner asked to post this. There isn’t much time (the last date for application is the 8th Oct)but anybody who has a project that you have been dreaming of doing should apply ASAP!  She says just apply now and then you can get some more time for writing the project ;) Talent campus “The...
    by PSji at October 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
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    Ajay TG granted bail after 90 days in detention
    Dear friends, So there is good news for all of us. Ajay TG was granted bail today, however, the release will happen tomorrow. Today Chandra Kumar Kashyap Judicial Magistrate First Class, Durg District, granted bail to Ajay today the 4th of August around five pm. The bail was granted under sec 167 (2) (a) (i), which is called statutory bail in local parlance. Since...
    by PSji at August 5th, 2008 at 03:08 am
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    Soi Cowboy
    I see at least one film everyday. It’s often a tall order and I have to plan in advance to have a supply of good films on hand. I am a member of two video rental shops, a big commercial one and one small art-house place. I also rent from the internet rental house which sends me 2 DVDs by the post, according to my wish list. I watch them and post them back to them...
    by PSji at July 25th, 2008 at 05:07 am
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    STOP PRESS – Indian film in Cannes!
    I was surprised the other day when I came upon a headline in the New Indian Express (Chennai edition dated Saturday May 17 2008 11:48 IST) which said ‘Cannes honour for Billa’. It said “A year after Veyil, the Tamil movie directed by Vasantha Balan, was officially nominated to the Cannes Film Festival; yet another Tamil movie makes it to the Mecca of movie makers.”...
    by PSji at May 22nd, 2008 at 06:05 am
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    MUMBAI STORIES 3 – Last drink!
    It’s been almost three months since I have been in Mumbai. I was called in by Sudhir Mishra to edit a 90 minute international version of his new film, Tera Kya Hoga Johnny! It was a very interesting experience to take a film and reconstruct it in a different way. The Indian version is about 130 minutes long and one could not just throw away 40 minutes of the film. So...
    by PSji at May 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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    Making Short films
    I recently met Manjeet Singh, an author on PFC in Mumbai. We had a long and interesting chat about films and particularly on his feature film project. As he wants to make to make a short film first and wanted to understand the basic differences between a full length feature and a short length feature, so instead of writing only to him, I thought I should share it with...
    by PSji at May 4th, 2008 at 02:05 pm
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    MUMBAI STORIES 2 – Art for Art’s Sake
    There was an auto-rickshaw strike the other day. The government wants them to change their mechanical fare meters into fancy electronic ones. So the union decided to flex its muscles. Suddenly the streets were empty of thousands of noisy gnats. My car driving friends were very happy they said they should be a permanent ban on them. But the people (like me) who are dependent...
    by PSji at April 29th, 2008 at 09:04 pm
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    MUMBAI STORIES 1 – Mango Vodkatini
    I was standing at the bar of a famous night spot in Mumbai sipping at Mango Vodkatini watching the young and old, bold and the beautiful, the rich and the famous. So are you back in India? said a suave looking man with greying hair. I recognised him like I recognise most of the rich and famous in Mumbai. I knew all these guys when they weren’t so rich and famous...
    by PSji at April 17th, 2008 at 01:04 am
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    Room 999
    Here’s something interesting that I wanted to share with you guys: From the site Room 999 “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” This question was answered by a.o. Jean Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Steven Spielberg, in Wim Wenders’ 1982 film Room 666, which he made during the Cannes Film...
    by PSji at February 11th, 2008 at 08:02 am
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    On the road again
    My laptop packed up a few days ago and I have been cut off from the world and from PFC. I have also been busy working on my documentary script that I am going to ‘pitch’ in front of commissioning editors and funders at the FIPA in Biarritz, France next week. My project has been selected along with ten other poor sods (directors) like me who will try and attract...
    by PSji at January 18th, 2008 at 05:01 pm
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    Hava Aney Dey opens at the MoMA, New York!
    Hava Aney Dey is part of the Global Lens 2008, a project conceived by The Global Film Initiative (GFI) to encourage filmmaking in countries with developing film communities. Developed with seed money from GFI, this year’s eight films, representing eight different countries, constitute a concise survey of contemporary filmmaking from areas where local economic realities...
    by PSji at January 6th, 2008 at 07:01 pm
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    A Film from the
    A producer called me yesterday and asked me if I had a story for a film to be shot in India. I said depends… what is it for? He said well I have some people who are interested in making ‘interesting’ films from the ‘South’. That’s the politically correct term for the third world originally coined by the Che, but now used by all, even the CIA. I said sure,...
    by PSji at January 6th, 2008 at 08:01 am
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    Making Films and Food!
    I dare say that making films and food are the same business. They both create drama and emotions. They both tell stories and give the audience something to think about and react. They both excite and fire up electrical sparks in the brain. They both have to be made with fresh and new ingredients that have to be carefully chosen and hand-picked by the ‘maker’. The elements...
    by PSji at January 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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