Posts Tagged ‘IFFLA 2007’

  • Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2008 Call for Entries
    IFFLA 2008 Announces Call for Entries The Sixth Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narrative, documentary, music videos, experimental, children’s and animated films of any length and format. IFFLA will run April 22-27, 2008 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice Prizes...
    by Vijay at September 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
  • Tea break: short interview with Srinivas
    Srinivas, a young and passionate film maker from India was present at IFFLA-2007 in Los Angeles. His first short film ‘Tea break’ was screened at the film festival and later it won the best film award in Short film category. What a brilliant start for a beginner. Now he is one of the member of elite film-makers group at PFC. Good to have you here Srinivas. I...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 5th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
  • Christina Marouda : Carrying the Indian Flag in Hollywood – A video conversation
    Christina Marouda, President of IFFLA is the brains behind the annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Having completed 5 years, IFFLA, as we saw it has been growing by leaps and bounds, bringing to the world priceless gems from the Indian cine scene. IFFLA has become an upcoming junction for anything cinema, anything Indian. Distributors, producers, directors, Indian...
    by oz at April 25th, 2007 at 05:04 pm
  • MISSED CALL – Mixed Feelings
    I must start this article with what Anurag said in behalf of the filmmakers before the screening. He said that the movie was made with “just” 38 Lacs. That they kept running out of money while making this film. Now why did they need 38 lakhs? When your protagonist is shooting everything on DV isn’t that the greatest excuse to shoot the movie in DV....
    by Mainak at April 24th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
  • IFFLA 2007 : The Winners
    Best Feature Jury Award: Valley Of Flowers Audience Choice Award: Outsourced Best Documentary Jury Award: Q2P Audience Choice Award: Divided We Fall – Americans in the Aftermath Best Short Film Jury Award: Tea Break Audience Choice Award: Monsoon Honorary Mentions Vanaja (feature) Printed Rainbow (Shorts) From the above the talk of the town was on the award given...
    by oz at April 24th, 2007 at 10:04 am
  • IFFLA 2007 : Day 3 : It’s raining shorts!
    Chuck the lazy bones. Trash the “Oh, maybe a few years from now” thoughts. Screw the “impossible” misbeliefs. Pickup up your handicam and just shoot it. From 8 minutes to 20 minutes shorts. An amazing 90 minutes that spanned about 6 shorts last night. Loved “Shanu Taxi” – a story about a taxi driver who thinks up various business...
    by oz at April 20th, 2007 at 05:04 pm
  • Valley of Flowers – Rescheduled
    For those of you who attended the screening of Pan Nalin’s Valley Of Flowers, we apologize for the cancellation which took place due to an unforseen projector malfunction. Please note that the screening has been rescheduled now, in the same large theater #10 (no glitches this time!) as follows: Saturday, April 21 – 3:30 p.m. Please make sure you bring your...
    by Vijay at April 19th, 2007 at 10:04 am
  • IFFLA 2007: Day 2: A pleasant surprise by Anurag and Nishikant
    Two days before the start of IFFLA, I received a call from Anurag that he was gonna show up at IFFLA and surprise everyone. Until that call, it had been confirmed that he wouldn’t be able to make it to the Indian Film Festival this year. Yesterday t! and I drive to LAX and there he is. AND VOILA! Out of the blue Nishikant walks out of the doors behind him… The...
    by oz at April 19th, 2007 at 09:04 am
  • IFFLA 2007: Missed Call : No miss this
    When Vijay asked PFC to present “Missed Call” at the Indian Film Festival, I thought yeah ok… shit… I’m in hot soup, if this movie really turns out to be… shit… what the fuck am I getting into… but it was Vijay, Kingfisher and a few PFC-ites in Southern California around, visiting their weekend shag zone (my house)…...
    by oz at April 12th, 2007 at 08:04 pm
  • IFFLA 2007 – Updates & Filmmaker Interviews
    In our tribute to Deepti Naval, the screening of Mirch Masala on Saturday, April 21 @ 8:00 pm has been REPLACED by the stunning Main Zinda Hoon directed by Sudhir Mishra. This is a rare film that is not available on DVD, VHS, or VCD, and NFDC has been kind enough to strike a brand new subtitled print for us, specially for the tribute. Don’t miss one of Sudhir Mishra’s...
    by Vijay at April 11th, 2007 at 03:04 pm
  • Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles – Program Announcement
    In celebration of its fifth anniversary, IFFLA has added a day making it a 6-day long event that runs April 17-22, 2007 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Hollywood. Tickets are now on sale online at www.arclightcinemas.com or at the ArcLight Hollywood box office. For more information on how to attend the festival, please visit www.indianfilmfestival.org. Check...
    by Vijay at March 27th, 2007 at 11:03 am