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The Film Bazaar in Goa, during Nov 26-29 coinciding with the 39th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has quite a few interesting projects lined up. There are 12 feature and ten 10 non-feature film projects by filmmakers from India and abroad that will be presented in the projects section of Film Bazaar to facilitate collaborations in production and distribution.

The Feature Film section of the Co-Production market will showcase film projects by Shaji N Karun, Murali Nair, Anurag Kashyap, Ashim Ahluwalia and Rajan Khosa. Also in the section are Michael Anderson’s planned adaptation of Indra Sinha’s Booker-nominated novel Animal’s People; and Suresh Productions (Hyderabad) and A Bellyful of Dreams co-production - Tamil / Hindi bilingual Samuel Kartikeya, about a vigilante who’s goal is to cleanse society from evil.

As part of the partnership between NFDC and the European Producers Club, which brings a bunch of films …

Its not everyday that a bunch of filmmakers I like, get together and converse on the medium. For such occasions I always had to depend on film festivals or even take a trip back in time during those glory days of DD. Most such occasion are fruitful when the moderator/interviewer is as well versed or at least someone who can hold his/her own amongst such august company.

Imagine, the thrill when Sudhir, presented the link to this gup-shup between Anurag, Navdeep, Rajat conducted by none other than Bharadwaj Rangan.

All about Old vs New Parallel Cinema - a lovely read this.

Excerpts

Nearly two decades after the demise of what was called Parallel Cinema, three filmmakers from a new age of non-mainstream cinema open up about then and now.

B Rangan: What is your personal opinion of the Parallel Cinema movement of the 1970s/80s?

Rajat Kapoor: I think great beginnings were made. There …