Vela is an upcoming Malayalam film that stars Shane Nigam and Sunny Wayne as police officers who work in a control room in Palakkad. The film is directed by debutant Syam Sasi and written by M Sajas, who previously penned the Asif Ali-starrer Mandharam. The film is produced by Cyn-Cyl Celluloid and distributed by Dulquer Salmaan’s Wayfarer Films.
The film is billed as an emotion-centric crime drama that is inspired by actual events. The plot revolves around the complex relationship between two police officers, Mallikarjunan (played by Sunny Wayne) and Ullas Augustine (played by Shane Nigam). Ullas is a new recruit who joins the control room and has to deal with many false messages that come his way. He faces a dilemma whether to follow or ignore those messages, or to report them to his seniors. Mallikarjunan is a senior officer who has a different approach to his...
The film is billed as an emotion-centric crime drama that is inspired by actual events. The plot revolves around the complex relationship between two police officers, Mallikarjunan (played by Sunny Wayne) and Ullas Augustine (played by Shane Nigam). Ullas is a new recruit who joins the control room and has to deal with many false messages that come his way. He faces a dilemma whether to follow or ignore those messages, or to report them to his seniors. Mallikarjunan is a senior officer who has a different approach to his...
- 10/22/2023
- by CineArticles Editorial Team
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Interview‘Dollu’ director Sagar Puranik spoke to Tnm about the creative choices he exercised, the reason for keeping things subtle and why he adopted an understanding tone when speaking about urban migration.Subha J RaoInstagramFresh from his 2019 National Award winning short film Mahaan Hutatma (2018), Sagar Puranik was contemplating making his feature debut. One day, at an event in Bengaluru, he witnessed a Dollu (double-headed drum native to Karnataka) performance. It was something he’d seen many times before, but watching the Dollu Kunitha practitioners playing the drums with gay abandon struck a different chord. “It was like I did not just hear the music, but saw the visuals that accompanied it and felt the reverberations it triggered,” Sagar recalls. He wondered how it would look on the big screen, because not many films spoke about the folk arts or music in detail. At the same time, during a conversation with a cab driver,...
- 9/5/2022
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
InterviewFilmmaker Anurag Kashyap is one of the producers of Paka, inspired by tales of the long-lasting feuds between families that migrated from central Kerala to Wayanad over the years. The film released on SonyLIV on July 7.Cris'Paachi' in PakaFrom an inside room of the house, a tired old voice would emerge as soon as someone steps in. Loud reproaches, reprimands, barely muffled curses come from the bed in the corner, where lay an old woman whose face you never see. Nithin Lukose got his grandmother to play the faceless woman, hidden by the camera that never looks at her. He was directing his first film, Paka, a feature that narrated incidents he grew up hearing in his hometown, Wayanad, of old family feuds and never-ending revenges. “Velyamachi (grandmother) would tell us these tales, of how families that migrated from central Kerala to Wayanad had these long lasting feuds, killing and drowning one another,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Cris
- The News Minute
Paka (“River of Blood”) dir. Nithin Lukose, 2021
A man is pulled from the Johnson River in Kerala’s Wayanad district, in Kerala’s mountainous Western Ghat region. At night, a group of young men sit around a fire, drinking, and pondering how the dead man got into the river. Murder, suggests one, but Johnny (Basil Paulose) says that couldn’t be the case, because the only way it would be murder would be if the man were part of the two local families – Johnny’s included – who, as we discover, have been part of a deeply rooted, long-standing feud. Think Montagues and Capulets, only set in Wayanad.
There is a ripple of tension in this scene, and in Johnny, who is planning to marry Anna (Vinitha Koshy), a young woman from the opposite family in the generations-long feud. Johnny and Anna publish their marriage banns – the formal announcement of an intention to marry,...
A man is pulled from the Johnson River in Kerala’s Wayanad district, in Kerala’s mountainous Western Ghat region. At night, a group of young men sit around a fire, drinking, and pondering how the dead man got into the river. Murder, suggests one, but Johnny (Basil Paulose) says that couldn’t be the case, because the only way it would be murder would be if the man were part of the two local families – Johnny’s included – who, as we discover, have been part of a deeply rooted, long-standing feud. Think Montagues and Capulets, only set in Wayanad.
There is a ripple of tension in this scene, and in Johnny, who is planning to marry Anna (Vinitha Koshy), a young woman from the opposite family in the generations-long feud. Johnny and Anna publish their marriage banns – the formal announcement of an intention to marry,...
- 6/26/2022
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
Formerly a sound designer whose credits include “Thithi”, winner of the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival, Nithin Lukose has now turned director with an impressive debut largely based on Keralite folklore passed down to him by his grandmother, which was produced by Anurag Kashyap.
Paka (River of Blood) is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
“Paka” takes place in Kerala’s Wayanad hill country, a region which saw an influx of migrants from other parts of Kerala between the 1940s and 1970s — migrants who brought with them long-simmering grudges and tensions. In this region, Johnny and Anna, two youths from warring families, are about to get married. Expectedly, their marriage is kept under wraps, since Anna’s uncles are in no mood to bury the hatchet, while both of the patriarchs of the families, Johnny’s grandmother and Anna’s grandfather, are still intently set on revenge,...
Paka (River of Blood) is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
“Paka” takes place in Kerala’s Wayanad hill country, a region which saw an influx of migrants from other parts of Kerala between the 1940s and 1970s — migrants who brought with them long-simmering grudges and tensions. In this region, Johnny and Anna, two youths from warring families, are about to get married. Expectedly, their marriage is kept under wraps, since Anna’s uncles are in no mood to bury the hatchet, while both of the patriarchs of the families, Johnny’s grandmother and Anna’s grandfather, are still intently set on revenge,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) announced the lineup of official selections for the 20th annual edition of the internationally acclaimed film festival, which will mark a return to in-person screenings and events this year. Including a Gala presentation of Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show, Iffla will showcase 26 films, including the world premiere of Anmol Sidhu’s Jaggi, and the North American premieres of Faraz Ali’s Shoebox and Natesh Hegde’s Pedro.
The landmark 20th Anniversary edition of Iffla will:
Inaugurate a Spotlight on South Asia sectionFeature a 20th Anniversary Shorts special program celebrating the festival’s history, with a pre-festival screening of Iffla alumni shorts highlighting films representing each year of the festival’s history with an in-theater co-presentation with NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (Nfmla)Present a live script read previewing an Iffla alumnus’ next feature project, and Include the announcement of a filmmaker mentorship initiative...
The landmark 20th Anniversary edition of Iffla will:
Inaugurate a Spotlight on South Asia sectionFeature a 20th Anniversary Shorts special program celebrating the festival’s history, with a pre-festival screening of Iffla alumni shorts highlighting films representing each year of the festival’s history with an in-theater co-presentation with NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (Nfmla)Present a live script read previewing an Iffla alumnus’ next feature project, and Include the announcement of a filmmaker mentorship initiative...
- 3/31/2022
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Mumbai Film Festival Considers Physical Screenings After Filmmakers’ Appeal to Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Updated: Filmmakers have a glimmer of hope after the Mumbai Film Festival said it would consider physical screenings, but did not make any promises.
“We feel the disappointment of the filmmakers,” a statement released by the festival board of trustees and team on Monday said. “We are working on a plan to manage a physical screening for films in our selection that do not screen in India in the near future. Whenever that is possible, we will get in touch and work with the filmmakers to make it happen.”
“But we do not, as we have said repeatedly, want to make promises we cannot keep. We have never requested any of our filmmakers to make choices in our favor or to hold back from whatever they feel is the best platform for their film and we do not want to do it now,” the statement added.
The statement also revealed...
“We feel the disappointment of the filmmakers,” a statement released by the festival board of trustees and team on Monday said. “We are working on a plan to manage a physical screening for films in our selection that do not screen in India in the near future. Whenever that is possible, we will get in touch and work with the filmmakers to make it happen.”
“But we do not, as we have said repeatedly, want to make promises we cannot keep. We have never requested any of our filmmakers to make choices in our favor or to hold back from whatever they feel is the best platform for their film and we do not want to do it now,” the statement added.
The statement also revealed...
- 2/28/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Update, 02/28, 05:30Am: Organizers of the Mumbai Film Festival (Mami) have responded to an open letter published last week by a collection of Indian filmmakers criticizing the decision to not hold physical screenings at this year’s event.
In a statement, the fest said they “feel the disappointment of the filmmakers” and that the move had been a “last resort”. They added that a key sponsor had pulled out of the event. Below is the statement in full.
“We feel the disappointment of the filmmakers. The last two years have been very hard on the filmmaking community. Similarly, we as an academy, all our benefactors, collaborators, and partners have also suffered. Amongst many things, we have had an associate sponsor discontinue their partnership with us. While that has put accumulating pressure on us, we also understand the difficulties of our partners.
“For us, cancelling an edition of the festival is the last resort.
In a statement, the fest said they “feel the disappointment of the filmmakers” and that the move had been a “last resort”. They added that a key sponsor had pulled out of the event. Below is the statement in full.
“We feel the disappointment of the filmmakers. The last two years have been very hard on the filmmaking community. Similarly, we as an academy, all our benefactors, collaborators, and partners have also suffered. Amongst many things, we have had an associate sponsor discontinue their partnership with us. While that has put accumulating pressure on us, we also understand the difficulties of our partners.
“For us, cancelling an edition of the festival is the last resort.
- 2/28/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Leesa Gazi’s Bengali-language A House Named Shahana won the feature award in the Film Bazaar Recommends section.
Kannada-language drama Shivamma, directed by Jai Shankar, and Baghjan, an Assamese and Moran-language drama from Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia, were presented with the Prasad Labs and Qube Moviebuff Appreciation Awards in the Works-in-Progress (Wip) section of Film Bazaar Online 2021.
A special mention by the Wip Lab Mentors went to A Space Of Our Own (Ek Jagah Apni), a Hindi-language drama directed by the Ektara Collective. The mentors said in a statement that they wanted to recognise the film “for challenging the conventional structures...
Kannada-language drama Shivamma, directed by Jai Shankar, and Baghjan, an Assamese and Moran-language drama from Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia, were presented with the Prasad Labs and Qube Moviebuff Appreciation Awards in the Works-in-Progress (Wip) section of Film Bazaar Online 2021.
A special mention by the Wip Lab Mentors went to A Space Of Our Own (Ek Jagah Apni), a Hindi-language drama directed by the Ektara Collective. The mentors said in a statement that they wanted to recognise the film “for challenging the conventional structures...
- 11/26/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
India’s annual Film Bazaar market has revealed the five projects chosen for its work-in-progress lab.
The selected projects are Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia’s Assamese and Moran-language “Baghjan”; Shailendra Sahu’s Hindi and Chattisgarhi-language “Bailadila; Ektara Collective’s Hindi-language “Ek Jagah Apni; Harshad Nalawade’s Marathi, Kannada and Hindi-language “Follower”; and Jai Shankar’s Kannada-language “Shivamma.”
The director and editor of the selected films show their rough cuts to the panel of mentors and receive in-depth one-on-one feedback. The international editor assigned to the film guides the director and editor of the selected films through two sessions of the editing lab.
Mentors this year include producers Philippa Campbell (“Top of the Lake”) and Olivia Stewart (“The House of Mirth”), veteran film festival curator Marco Müller, editor and festival curator Marie-Pierre Duhamel, editors Jacques Comets and Lizi Gelber (“Venice Elsewhere”) and critic Derek Malcolm.
Since its inception in 2008, the lab has...
The selected projects are Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia’s Assamese and Moran-language “Baghjan”; Shailendra Sahu’s Hindi and Chattisgarhi-language “Bailadila; Ektara Collective’s Hindi-language “Ek Jagah Apni; Harshad Nalawade’s Marathi, Kannada and Hindi-language “Follower”; and Jai Shankar’s Kannada-language “Shivamma.”
The director and editor of the selected films show their rough cuts to the panel of mentors and receive in-depth one-on-one feedback. The international editor assigned to the film guides the director and editor of the selected films through two sessions of the editing lab.
Mentors this year include producers Philippa Campbell (“Top of the Lake”) and Olivia Stewart (“The House of Mirth”), veteran film festival curator Marco Müller, editor and festival curator Marie-Pierre Duhamel, editors Jacques Comets and Lizi Gelber (“Venice Elsewhere”) and critic Derek Malcolm.
Since its inception in 2008, the lab has...
- 11/16/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Red Sea International Film Festival has set the lineup for its inaugural edition which runs from December 6-15 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The roster includes 138 titles from 67 countries and will open with MGM’s Joe Wright-directed musical romance Cyrano. The film previously played Telluride and Rome among others and releases domestically on December 31. Among highlights are also Netflix’s Venice Film Festival drama The Lost Daughter. Closing the Red Sea Fest is the world premiere of Egyptian director Amr Salama’s Bara El Manhag.
Sixteen films will run in the competition which is focused on films from Asia, Africa and the Arab world (see full list below). They will vie for the Golden Yusr Award as well as in individual directing, acting and writing categories. Among the titles screening are Hany Abu-Assad’s Huda’s Salon, Georgian Oscar submission Brighton 4th and Panah Panahi’s Hit The Road.
Kaleem Aftab,...
The roster includes 138 titles from 67 countries and will open with MGM’s Joe Wright-directed musical romance Cyrano. The film previously played Telluride and Rome among others and releases domestically on December 31. Among highlights are also Netflix’s Venice Film Festival drama The Lost Daughter. Closing the Red Sea Fest is the world premiere of Egyptian director Amr Salama’s Bara El Manhag.
Sixteen films will run in the competition which is focused on films from Asia, Africa and the Arab world (see full list below). They will vie for the Golden Yusr Award as well as in individual directing, acting and writing categories. Among the titles screening are Hany Abu-Assad’s Huda’s Salon, Georgian Oscar submission Brighton 4th and Panah Panahi’s Hit The Road.
Kaleem Aftab,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Forgotten History,” by celebrated Afghanistan filmmaker Roya Sadat (“A Letter to the President”), is one of 20 projects from 11 countries chosen for India’s Film Bazaar virtual co-production market.
Being produced by Sadat’s women-centric collective Roya Film House and Spain’s Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions, the project previously participated at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum and the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market.
The market line-up of stories will be told in the Assamese, Bengali, Dari, English, German, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Portuguese, Sinhala, Tamil, and Telugu. The selected projects will be pitched virtually to international and Indian producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents.
Projects include “Ashwamedh” (The Sacrifice) (India-u.K.) by Ridham Janve, whose debut feature film, “The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain,” won the Young Cinema Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Silver Gateway Award at the Jio Mami International Film Festival.
Being produced by Sadat’s women-centric collective Roya Film House and Spain’s Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions, the project previously participated at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum and the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market.
The market line-up of stories will be told in the Assamese, Bengali, Dari, English, German, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Portuguese, Sinhala, Tamil, and Telugu. The selected projects will be pitched virtually to international and Indian producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents.
Projects include “Ashwamedh” (The Sacrifice) (India-u.K.) by Ridham Janve, whose debut feature film, “The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain,” won the Young Cinema Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Silver Gateway Award at the Jio Mami International Film Festival.
- 10/28/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
On the basis of filmmakers like Lijo Jose Pelliserry, Salim Ahmed, Jeetu Joseph, Dileesh Pothan, Geethu Mohandas, and Rajiv Ravi, the state of Kerala (of which the official language is Malayalam) has produced by and large India’s best output over the last decade. If the premiere of his film Paka (River of Blood) is any hint, we may end up adding sound-designer-turned-filmmaker Nithin Lukose to that illustrious list. His first venture into directing and writing has plenty of the religious, historically rooted elements and intra-family discords Kerala’s cinema has often explored, especially in the rural areas of its state.
Paka begins with a superimposition explaining a generations-deep feud between two families who migrated to the region’s hinterlands. Said feud was borne from a dispute over a woman and has lasted for decades, ending up in the killing of several prominent members of either family and their disposal into the Johnson River.
Paka begins with a superimposition explaining a generations-deep feud between two families who migrated to the region’s hinterlands. Said feud was borne from a dispute over a woman and has lasted for decades, ending up in the killing of several prominent members of either family and their disposal into the Johnson River.
- 9/16/2021
- by Soham Gadre
- The Film Stage
In his feature debut, Indian director Nithin Lukose draws on tales of migration and generational bloodshed passed down to him by his grandmother. “Paka (River of Blood),” in which a star-crossed couple is threatened by a deep-seated family feud, resembles “Romeo and Juliet” on the surface, but its
In the rural Kerala wetlands of Wayanad, Johnny (Basil Paulose) and Anna (Vinitha Koshy) are all set to get married in secret, but their plan is thrown into disarray when Johnny’s uncle, Kocheppu (Jose Kizhakkan), is released from prison after a decade away. The history between Johnny and Anna’s family runs deep, and it runs red. Kocheppu is a key part of that history, and his return means it can no longer stay dormant. The film uses numerous, narratively appropriate radio broadcasts to set the stage for its saga, from cricket, to soccer, to news of the Indian army, but...
In the rural Kerala wetlands of Wayanad, Johnny (Basil Paulose) and Anna (Vinitha Koshy) are all set to get married in secret, but their plan is thrown into disarray when Johnny’s uncle, Kocheppu (Jose Kizhakkan), is released from prison after a decade away. The history between Johnny and Anna’s family runs deep, and it runs red. Kocheppu is a key part of that history, and his return means it can no longer stay dormant. The film uses numerous, narratively appropriate radio broadcasts to set the stage for its saga, from cricket, to soccer, to news of the Indian army, but...
- 9/13/2021
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
BenedictionThe lineup has been unveiled for the 2021 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, which will take place over 10 days (September 9-18) both in-person and physically in Toronto, and digitally across Canada. Wavelengths - FEATURESFutura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher)The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher)Neptune Frost (Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman)A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette)The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes)Wavelengths - SHORTSThe Capacity for Adequate Anger (Vika Kirchenbauer)Dear Chantal (Querida Chantal) (Nicolás Pereda)earthearthearth (Daïchi Saïto)Inner Outer Space (Laida Lertxundi)Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson)“The red filter is withdrawn.” (Minjung Kim)Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky)Midnight Madness After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (Bertrand Mandico)Dashcam (Rob Savage)Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot)Titane (Julia Ducournau)You Are Not My Mother (Kate Dolan)Zalava (Arsalan Amiri)TIFF DOCSAttica (Stanley Nelson)Beba (Rebeca Huntt)Becoming Cousteau...
- 8/4/2021
- MUBI
CinemaDirector Nithin Lukose is from Wayanad and says the story of the film is inspired by the tales he heard when growing up.Suresh NellikodeFacebook/Resul PookuttyWhen Nithin Lukose, an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, made up his mind finally to make a movie about the village he lives in with its rustic beauty and the mysteries it has hidden, he didn't have the faintest notion that it would get a renowned Bollywood filmmaker as its producer, and thereby make it to the Toronto International Film Festival- 2021. Nithin hails from a family in Ayilamoola, 8.5 km away from Mananthavady, Wayanad. His ancestors were settlers from Kaduthuruthy and Moolamattom of Central Kerala. The settlers had no option but to work very hard to prove their mettle. The farmers, who had been frequently and adversely impacted by human-animal conflict, infectious diseases like Malaria etc., had to stand up against...
- 8/3/2021
- by AjayR
- The News Minute
The Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineups for the Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery programs as it ramps up toward the kickoff of its 46th edition September 9-18. The festival also solidified additional Gala and Special Presentation titles and took the wraps off TIFF Rewind, a new block that highlights memorable films from previous TIFF editions along with conversations and Q&As with directors and casts.
This comes after the festival last week announced that Dear Evan Hansen will be the opening-night film, while Zhang Yimou’s One Second will close it. It also revealed a portion of the Gala and Special presentation titles that featured films from directors Edgar Wright, Melanie Laurent, Barry Levinson, Antoine Fuqua, Jacques Audiard and Ted Melfi.
Today, TIFF added world premieres for Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky’s The Good House and Camille Griffin’s Silent Night to its Gala lineup, and...
This comes after the festival last week announced that Dear Evan Hansen will be the opening-night film, while Zhang Yimou’s One Second will close it. It also revealed a portion of the Gala and Special presentation titles that featured films from directors Edgar Wright, Melanie Laurent, Barry Levinson, Antoine Fuqua, Jacques Audiard and Ted Melfi.
Today, TIFF added world premieres for Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky’s The Good House and Camille Griffin’s Silent Night to its Gala lineup, and...
- 7/28/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
New TIFF Rewind features filmmakers in conversation about memorable selections from the past.
World premieres of Ruth Paxton’s UK horror A Banquet, Agustina San Martín’s Argentinian genre tale To Kill The Beast and Sébastien Pilote’s Canadian period drama Maria Chapdelaine are among Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery selections announced by Toronto International Film festival.
Scroll down for full list of new titles
The festival also unveiled additional Gala and Special Presentations titles, and introduced TIFF Rewind featuring filmmakers in conversation about memorable selections from the past.
Gala screenings include the world premiere of Camille Griffin’s UK...
World premieres of Ruth Paxton’s UK horror A Banquet, Agustina San Martín’s Argentinian genre tale To Kill The Beast and Sébastien Pilote’s Canadian period drama Maria Chapdelaine are among Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery selections announced by Toronto International Film festival.
Scroll down for full list of new titles
The festival also unveiled additional Gala and Special Presentations titles, and introduced TIFF Rewind featuring filmmakers in conversation about memorable selections from the past.
Gala screenings include the world premiere of Camille Griffin’s UK...
- 7/28/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Production
“The Masked Talent,” a new format from Korea’s Mbc, creators of global hit “The Masked Singer,” is currently in production.
Unlike the celebrity-driven “The Masked Singer” and spin-off “The Masked Dancer,” where the focus is on who is behind the mask, “The Masked Talent” is a non-celebrity masked audition format concentrating on singing skills and talents. Two episodes, to be broadcast on the Mbc channel during the Chuseok Korean Thanksgiving holidays, invites the audience to participate.
“The purpose of the show is to present the audience with the unique experience to become the masked hero and perform their showmanship,” said Park Jeong-Kyu, chief producer of “The Masked Singer” and “The Masked Talent.” “With prejudice and bias out of the way, the contestants will be judged solely by their genuine voice and talent.”
The show was co-developed by Mbc and France’s Herve Hubert, the production house for the French “Mask Singer,...
“The Masked Talent,” a new format from Korea’s Mbc, creators of global hit “The Masked Singer,” is currently in production.
Unlike the celebrity-driven “The Masked Singer” and spin-off “The Masked Dancer,” where the focus is on who is behind the mask, “The Masked Talent” is a non-celebrity masked audition format concentrating on singing skills and talents. Two episodes, to be broadcast on the Mbc channel during the Chuseok Korean Thanksgiving holidays, invites the audience to participate.
“The purpose of the show is to present the audience with the unique experience to become the masked hero and perform their showmanship,” said Park Jeong-Kyu, chief producer of “The Masked Singer” and “The Masked Talent.” “With prejudice and bias out of the way, the contestants will be judged solely by their genuine voice and talent.”
The show was co-developed by Mbc and France’s Herve Hubert, the production house for the French “Mask Singer,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sreejith Karanavar’s Konkani-language Today Me Tomorrow You took the top award in the Film Bazaar Recommends section.
Nithin Lukose’s Malayalam-language Paka: The River Of Blood and Chhatrapal Ninawe’s Marathi-language Ambush (Ghaath) were presented with the Prasad Labs and Qube Moviebuff Appreciation Awards in the Works-in-Progress (Wip) section of Film Bazaar Online (January 16-21).
The two projects were presented with digital intermediate services from Prasad Labs and digital cinema packages from Qube. Tiwa-language Sikaisal, from Dr. Bobby Sarma Baruah, was given a special mention in the Wip section.
Meanwhile, Sreejith Karanavar’s Konkani-language Today Me Tomorrow You took...
Nithin Lukose’s Malayalam-language Paka: The River Of Blood and Chhatrapal Ninawe’s Marathi-language Ambush (Ghaath) were presented with the Prasad Labs and Qube Moviebuff Appreciation Awards in the Works-in-Progress (Wip) section of Film Bazaar Online (January 16-21).
The two projects were presented with digital intermediate services from Prasad Labs and digital cinema packages from Qube. Tiwa-language Sikaisal, from Dr. Bobby Sarma Baruah, was given a special mention in the Wip section.
Meanwhile, Sreejith Karanavar’s Konkani-language Today Me Tomorrow You took...
- 1/21/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Nithin Lukose’s Malayalam-language “Paka: The River of Blood,” Chhatrapal Ninawe’s Marathi-language “Ghaath” (Ambush) and Sreejith Karanavar’s Konkani-language “Aiz Maka Falea Tuka” (Today Me Tomorrow You) were among the winners at India’s Film Bazaar project market that concluded on Thursday.
“Paka” and “Ghaath” were presented in the Work in Progress lab strand of the Bazaar, while “Aiz Maka Falea Tuka” was in the Film Bazaar Recommends strand.
The projects won digital intermediate packages from Prasad Labs, and Qube’s Moviebuff Appreciation awards which includes the creation of Digital Cinema Packages.
This year saw the introduction of a new award, backed by the Institute Francais India and Produire au Sud, which provides support for script translations into French as well as two script consultations. Pasang Dawa Sherpa’s Nepali-language “Kuhiro Pariko Sahar” (“A Hidden Tale Behind The Mist”) won the award.
The Work in Progress lab mentors also...
“Paka” and “Ghaath” were presented in the Work in Progress lab strand of the Bazaar, while “Aiz Maka Falea Tuka” was in the Film Bazaar Recommends strand.
The projects won digital intermediate packages from Prasad Labs, and Qube’s Moviebuff Appreciation awards which includes the creation of Digital Cinema Packages.
This year saw the introduction of a new award, backed by the Institute Francais India and Produire au Sud, which provides support for script translations into French as well as two script consultations. Pasang Dawa Sherpa’s Nepali-language “Kuhiro Pariko Sahar” (“A Hidden Tale Behind The Mist”) won the award.
The Work in Progress lab mentors also...
- 1/21/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
FilmApart from this, 12 films have been selected in the ‘Malayalam Cinema Today’ category and seven in the ‘Indian Cinema Now’ category.Tnm StaffLijo Jose Pellissery’s Churuli and Jayaraj’s Hasyam have been selected for competition at the 25th edition of the prestigious Iffk (International Film Festival of Kerala) in Thiruvananthapuram. The two Malayalam films have been selected for competition in the International category and will be screened at the Iffk, which will be held from February 12 to February 19 next year. Filmmaker Mohit Priyadarshi’s Hindi film Kosa and Akshay Indiker’s Marathi film Chronicle of Space or Sthalpuran have also been selected in this category. Further, 12 Malayalam films have been selected to compete in a category named ‘Malayalam Cinema Today’. These are: Gramavrikshathile Kuyil (Cuckoo on the Village Tree) by Kp Kumaran, C U Soon by Mahesh Narayan, Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam (The First Secret to Happiness) by Don Palathara,...
- 12/25/2020
- by Sreedevi
- The News Minute
Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest co-production market, has revealed 21 eclectic projects from several countries and in a welter of languages, for its 2021 online edition.
The selected filmmakers will pitch their projects virtually to a curated audience of Indian and international producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents at an open pitch session. This year, Film Bazaar has also collaborated with the French Embassy in India which will be sponsoring the French Institute Award for one market project.
As is the usual case, the projects are a mix of festival favorites and debutants.
From India, Berlinale title “Eeb Allay Ooo!” editor Tanushree Das and Rotterdam title “Nasir” cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi make their directorial debuts with Bengali-language “Baksho Bondi” (aka “How Long Is Tomorrow?”), produced by Naren Chandavarkar (Rotterdam Fipresci winner “The Bangle Seller”); Tamil-language “Bommainayagi” (aka “Queen Doll”) by debutant Shanawaz Nizamudeen, produced by Pa. Ranjith, director of Rajinikanth...
The selected filmmakers will pitch their projects virtually to a curated audience of Indian and international producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents at an open pitch session. This year, Film Bazaar has also collaborated with the French Embassy in India which will be sponsoring the French Institute Award for one market project.
As is the usual case, the projects are a mix of festival favorites and debutants.
From India, Berlinale title “Eeb Allay Ooo!” editor Tanushree Das and Rotterdam title “Nasir” cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi make their directorial debuts with Bengali-language “Baksho Bondi” (aka “How Long Is Tomorrow?”), produced by Naren Chandavarkar (Rotterdam Fipresci winner “The Bangle Seller”); Tamil-language “Bommainayagi” (aka “Queen Doll”) by debutant Shanawaz Nizamudeen, produced by Pa. Ranjith, director of Rajinikanth...
- 12/22/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Line-up includes new projects from Onir, Anjali Menon, Shyam Bora and Haobam Paban Kumar.
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), has announced the 21 projects selected for the Co-production Market (Cpm) of its 2020 edition, which will take place online next month after being postponed from its usual November slot.
The line-up includes projects in 17 South Asian languages originating in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as co-productions with Canada, China, Netherlands and France.
International collaborations include Onir’s We Are, co-produced by India’s Anticlock Films and Canada’s Fae Pictures; India-Netherlands collaboration Dengue,...
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), has announced the 21 projects selected for the Co-production Market (Cpm) of its 2020 edition, which will take place online next month after being postponed from its usual November slot.
The line-up includes projects in 17 South Asian languages originating in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as co-productions with Canada, China, Netherlands and France.
International collaborations include Onir’s We Are, co-produced by India’s Anticlock Films and Canada’s Fae Pictures; India-Netherlands collaboration Dengue,...
- 12/21/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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