BFI, in partnership with British Council, has released India on Film: 1899-1947, Treasures from the BFI National Archive, an unparalleled collection of extremely rare films of India, (250 Newly digitised Films), which have survived from the earliest days of cinema. This visual record of early twentieth century offers a unique factual account giving new audiences an eye opening insight into the people, places, traditions and most famous landmarks of India.
India on Film: 1899-1947 consolidates the BFI’s commitment to preserving and sharing world film heritage, by making these significant collections accessible for audiences globally. Newly digitised specifically as part of UK/India 2017, a year-long celebration of the long-standing relationship between India and the UK, can be seen both on the BFI Player (for UK viewers) and the BFI YouTube Channel, enabling audiences in India and internationally, an opportunity to access and engage with the online collection online.
Highlights includes the...
India on Film: 1899-1947 consolidates the BFI’s commitment to preserving and sharing world film heritage, by making these significant collections accessible for audiences globally. Newly digitised specifically as part of UK/India 2017, a year-long celebration of the long-standing relationship between India and the UK, can be seen both on the BFI Player (for UK viewers) and the BFI YouTube Channel, enabling audiences in India and internationally, an opportunity to access and engage with the online collection online.
Highlights includes the...
- 8/21/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Editor’s Note: Director Sandhya Suri is not a new face at Sundance, where her feature “I for India” premiered a decade ago. Suri though is new to the world of fiction filmmaking after working for years in documentaries. The filmmaker recently brought her first script “Santosh” — the story of a young widow in Northern India, who inherits her husband’s job as police constable — to the 2016 Directors Lab to workshop scenes and get hands on experience directing actors. IndieWire asked her to share her experience and find out what she learned about making the transition for nonfiction to fiction filmmaking.
Photo Gallery: Behind the Scenes at the 2016 Sundance Directors Lab
When I arrived at Sundance there was still snow on the mountains. It was like a landscape from “The Sound of Music.” By the end of the Lab, it had almost all melted and I was leaving decidedly changed by my experiences here.
Photo Gallery: Behind the Scenes at the 2016 Sundance Directors Lab
When I arrived at Sundance there was still snow on the mountains. It was like a landscape from “The Sound of Music.” By the end of the Lab, it had almost all melted and I was leaving decidedly changed by my experiences here.
- 7/13/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Clockwise from top left: Frances Bodomo, Annie Silverstein, César Cervantes, Kibwe Tavares, Boots Riley, Pippa Bianco, Sandhya Suri and Eva Vives. Photo: Courtesy of the Sundance institute
British directors Sandhya Suri and Kibwe Tavares have been selected alongside another six first-time fiction feature-makers to join the Sundance Institute's Directors Lab from May 30 to June 23.
Both Suri, who will take her film Santosh to the lab, and Tavares, who will work on The Kitchen, have enjoyed success previously. Suri's documentary I For India, constructed from her father's home movies, being selected to compete at Sundance in 2005, while Tavares' animated short Robots Of Brixton won a short film special jury prize at the festival in 2012 and his 2013 film Jonah was named best British short at the BIFAs.
The Directors Lab operates under the leadership of Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme founding drector Michelle Satter, Labs director Ilyse McKimmie and with artistic direction from Gyula Gazdag.
British directors Sandhya Suri and Kibwe Tavares have been selected alongside another six first-time fiction feature-makers to join the Sundance Institute's Directors Lab from May 30 to June 23.
Both Suri, who will take her film Santosh to the lab, and Tavares, who will work on The Kitchen, have enjoyed success previously. Suri's documentary I For India, constructed from her father's home movies, being selected to compete at Sundance in 2005, while Tavares' animated short Robots Of Brixton won a short film special jury prize at the festival in 2012 and his 2013 film Jonah was named best British short at the BIFAs.
The Directors Lab operates under the leadership of Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme founding drector Michelle Satter, Labs director Ilyse McKimmie and with artistic direction from Gyula Gazdag.
- 5/6/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Sundance Institute is including a touch of Cannes this week as the likes of Pippa Bianco (her short Share was the 2015 winner of Cannes Cinefondation), Alistair Banks Griffin (Two Gates of Sleep premiered in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010), and the Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza tandem (from Critics’ Week Grand Prize in 2013 for Salvo) are among the dozen selected projects for the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab. The immersive, five-day writers’ workshop takes place just prior to the festival at the Sundance Resort in Utah, January 15-20. Look for several of these projects to one day break into not only Sundance, but other major film fests. Here are the selected people & projects:
The projects and fellows selected for the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab are:
Bull (U.S.A.) / Annie Silverstein (Co-writer/Director) and Johnny McAllister (Co-writer)
In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor,...
The projects and fellows selected for the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab are:
Bull (U.S.A.) / Annie Silverstein (Co-writer/Director) and Johnny McAllister (Co-writer)
In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor,...
- 1/11/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A two week film festival is being organized by the Cambridge Super 8 group to help the Super 8 film format to survive. The Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival will run from 22nd of April to the 1st of May 2010 in Cambridge. Recent films made on Super 8 film format by filmmakers from all around the globe will be screened in the festival.
The 2010 festival will be showcasing a mix of animation, comedies, dramas and experimental film. All the screenings will be free of charge.
This year’s festival will screen the feature documentary "I for India". The film directed by Sandhya Suri is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera. Her film which received numerous awards for best documentary will be screened on Saturday the 1st of May as part of the memory programme.
In 2009, the third Cambridge...
The 2010 festival will be showcasing a mix of animation, comedies, dramas and experimental film. All the screenings will be free of charge.
This year’s festival will screen the feature documentary "I for India". The film directed by Sandhya Suri is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera. Her film which received numerous awards for best documentary will be screened on Saturday the 1st of May as part of the memory programme.
In 2009, the third Cambridge...
- 4/2/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
First Run/Icarus Films
There are many independent films that seem like little more than home movies, and that is literally the case with director Sandhya Suri's documentary about her family. But despite its rough-hewn technical aspects, I for India emerges as a moving portrait of cultural dislocation and the emotional complexities of family dynamics.
The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Pioneer Theater.
The film centers on the filmmaker's father, Yash Pal Suri, who emigrated from India to England in 1965 in search of better medical training. Finding frustration in attempts to communicate with his relatives in his native country by phone and letters, he bought matching sets of 8mm cameras and projectors and reel-to-reel tape recorders. During the course of the next several decades, he kept in touch with his parents and siblings via swapped film and audio recordings.
Interspersed with excerpts from these missives -- in which family tensions are exposed with a startling emotional intimacy -- are numerous excerpts from British news programs that detail the rising tensions caused by the ever-increasing numbers of immigrants entering the country.
The father's ill-fated attempt to move back to India in the early 1980s with his wife and three children is the impetus for a series of moving interviews conducted by the filmmaker with family members about the different paths their lives have taken.
Things come full circle with the decision of daughter Vanita to move to Australia, with her parents' grief all too reminiscent of the pain suffered by the earlier generation.
There are many independent films that seem like little more than home movies, and that is literally the case with director Sandhya Suri's documentary about her family. But despite its rough-hewn technical aspects, I for India emerges as a moving portrait of cultural dislocation and the emotional complexities of family dynamics.
The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Pioneer Theater.
The film centers on the filmmaker's father, Yash Pal Suri, who emigrated from India to England in 1965 in search of better medical training. Finding frustration in attempts to communicate with his relatives in his native country by phone and letters, he bought matching sets of 8mm cameras and projectors and reel-to-reel tape recorders. During the course of the next several decades, he kept in touch with his parents and siblings via swapped film and audio recordings.
Interspersed with excerpts from these missives -- in which family tensions are exposed with a startling emotional intimacy -- are numerous excerpts from British news programs that detail the rising tensions caused by the ever-increasing numbers of immigrants entering the country.
The father's ill-fated attempt to move back to India in the early 1980s with his wife and three children is the impetus for a series of moving interviews conducted by the filmmaker with family members about the different paths their lives have taken.
Things come full circle with the decision of daughter Vanita to move to Australia, with her parents' grief all too reminiscent of the pain suffered by the earlier generation.
- 12/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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