Indo Pak Short Film Series In Orange County!!
Hi Folks,
Sometime ago, on this blog, I had posted that we in SAAFA would be having an Indo Pak Short/Doc Film series in Southern California. Then it got delayed, the location changed, but now we have a revised show and a bigger show in a brand new location.
SAAFA presents the Indo Pak, short/doc film series.
The event will feature the works of the up and coming film makers from South Asia and South Asian Americans. Also in keeping with my logic of “if you do something try to provide a potential commercial oppurtunity,” we will have on hand a representative from FILMAKA.
FILMAKA, a company which has on it’s board people like Deepak Nayyar and Colin Frith, provides opportunites for new filmmakers, by evaluating their short/doc and if potential is found, to support them in their evolution as feature filmmakers.
Also in our “challenge the system mentality” we will be throwing out of the window the concept that “the amount of money that is required is increasing” by showcasing a FEATURE film that was completed recently in Mumbai, for Rs 9 lacs ( approx $20K odd), named BOOMERANG.
When: Saturday, July 21, 2007, from 2 :00 pm to 6:00 pm
Where: Chapman College, Marion Knott Studios, Orange County
Marion Knott Studios, Room 309
PHONE: (714) 997-6765
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92866
Admission: FREE
Addl Info : 510-673-5614 (cell) – Vivek ( don’t ask me directions since I have been to OC, only ONCE in my life and I have driven by it THRICE in my life)
or
910.797.4644 (cell for Sabina, do ask her for directions since she is from there)
Now if you really think you have the talent….this is your opportunity….or come and see what the competition is doing
Sincerely,
Vivek “opportunity is not an issue, now do you have what it takes to put yourself on the line” Kumar
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Vivek
Can you post the list of films slated to be shown? I could not find it in the Chapman website.
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The Manchurian Candidate(Frank Sinatara not Denzil) (8/10)
Music – www.pandora.com
Vivek, I will try my damndest to be in Orange County on the 21st, and bring some interesting people along, who’re actually looking to showcase emerging talent in an upcoming specialty curated theatrical series, tell u more then….cya
Mainak- I don’t have the exact names of the films in fornt of me, since I shipped all the titles to Sabina, my contact at Chapman for her to do the test runs, etc.
The source of the films are as follows:
(a) For the Pakistan category, films by documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid (Stanford and one of the most daring filmmakers out there), an animation by Cemendtaur, a short by Chicago based filmmaker and one from a USC filmmaker
(b) For the Indian content, all the films from project MAMI, who did a short film series at the Infinity Mall theater in Dec, 2006. I have the collection of their award winning one’s (the jury was Nagesh Kukunoor, Ashok Pandit and Sachin Pilgaonkar)
(c) For the Indian American content, have taken the best of the works collected by my friend Karthik Bezawada, who runs the site called Zatacom (although that may have been brought down). Karthik was based in Newport, NJ and had started this project of showcasing the works of short/doc/independent feature filmmakers on the internet. He is now relocated to India
Damn
I won’t be able to make it. I’m going on a road trip along the west coast. All the way to Seatle. For 15 days.
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Last Film – Winged Migration(8/10)
Music – www.pandora.com
Don’t blame you Mainak, the road trip seems way more exciting, have fun. Can relate to that, when I was narrating my script to a Prod House in Mumbai and they liked it, I should have been excited, instead I wanted to run outside and catch the latest Wimbledon action on the giant screen.
Living and doing non filmi things amongst non filmi folks, in my humble opinion, will make you a better screenwriter /filmmaker, since the real world throws way more stories than interactions with people filmi and things filmi and watching films (I know they say contrary to that in script writing classes)