Pan Nalin’s “The Last Film Show,” (aka “Chhello Show”) which opens Tribeca’s Spotlight section on June 10, has attracted buyers around the world, ahead of its world premiere.
Neue Visionen has acquired the film for Germany, Karma Films for Spain, Shochiku for Japan, Red Cape and Nachson for Israel and Nos Lusomundo for Portugal.
Nalin is known for his eclectic, and visually striking, body of work including “Samsara,” “Valley of Flowers” and “Angry Indian Goddesses.”
The partly autobiographical drama takes Nalin back to his roots in Saurashtra, Gujarat, western India, where “The Last Film Show” was filmed. The story is set against the backdrop of Indian cinemas witnessing a massive transition from celluloid to digital where hundreds of single-screen cinemas are either in ruins or have disappeared altogether.
The film follows nine-year-old boy Samay, whose life turns upside down after watching his first movie at the Galaxy Cinema. He...
Neue Visionen has acquired the film for Germany, Karma Films for Spain, Shochiku for Japan, Red Cape and Nachson for Israel and Nos Lusomundo for Portugal.
Nalin is known for his eclectic, and visually striking, body of work including “Samsara,” “Valley of Flowers” and “Angry Indian Goddesses.”
The partly autobiographical drama takes Nalin back to his roots in Saurashtra, Gujarat, western India, where “The Last Film Show” was filmed. The story is set against the backdrop of Indian cinemas witnessing a massive transition from celluloid to digital where hundreds of single-screen cinemas are either in ruins or have disappeared altogether.
The film follows nine-year-old boy Samay, whose life turns upside down after watching his first movie at the Galaxy Cinema. He...
- 6/9/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
“NY84” will have a gala opening and theatrical release this October 14 at the Arena Theater in Hollywood.
A unique venue for a unique film written and directed by Cyril Morin and starring Sam Quartin, Chris Schellenger and Davy J. Marr, “NY84” follows the adventures of three young artists in the downtown New York art scene in the early 1980s. Young and carefree, Kate, Anton, and Keith party, photograph, paint, sing, and play their way through the clubs and lofts of Alphabet City.
The party ends in 1984 when Anton and Keith contract a mysterious illness known as the “gay cancer.” We gain an intimate glimpse into their creative and emotional lives as the three lose their youth and innocence.
Cyril Morin
This is a lyrical poetic paen to those times some of us were lucky enough to have lived through. The sexual revolution and its sexual freedom in effect then for the newly liberated homosexual community, also opened the way for Kate to express herself. And it opened a door for transexuals, women and the whole diversity of humanity to assert itself today.
A unique venue for a unique film written and directed by Cyril Morin and starring Sam Quartin, Chris Schellenger and Davy J. Marr, “NY84” follows the adventures of three young artists in the downtown New York art scene in the early 1980s. Young and carefree, Kate, Anton, and Keith party, photograph, paint, sing, and play their way through the clubs and lofts of Alphabet City.
The party ends in 1984 when Anton and Keith contract a mysterious illness known as the “gay cancer.” We gain an intimate glimpse into their creative and emotional lives as the three lose their youth and innocence.
Cyril Morin
This is a lyrical poetic paen to those times some of us were lucky enough to have lived through. The sexual revolution and its sexual freedom in effect then for the newly liberated homosexual community, also opened the way for Kate to express herself. And it opened a door for transexuals, women and the whole diversity of humanity to assert itself today.
- 9/30/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Two Asian films were awarded during the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
The second place for the Audience Award was for “Angry Indian Goddesses” by Pan Nalin, director of the excellent movie “Samsara” (2001).
Freida (Sarah Jane Dias) invites her close group of friends to the city Goa where she tells them that she will marry soon but they are in for a surprise she don’t tell them who is the betrothed. The news shock so much the group that soon everyone starts to play different strategies to find out the truth. Dialogues touches very different topics such as career, sex life, genre issues and sexism. With this movie Nalin shows a snapshot of modern Indian society.
The other film awarded was “The Whispering Star” who got the Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere.
The movie directed by Sion Sono tells the story of Yoko (Megumi Kagurazaka...
The second place for the Audience Award was for “Angry Indian Goddesses” by Pan Nalin, director of the excellent movie “Samsara” (2001).
Freida (Sarah Jane Dias) invites her close group of friends to the city Goa where she tells them that she will marry soon but they are in for a surprise she don’t tell them who is the betrothed. The news shock so much the group that soon everyone starts to play different strategies to find out the truth. Dialogues touches very different topics such as career, sex life, genre issues and sexism. With this movie Nalin shows a snapshot of modern Indian society.
The other film awarded was “The Whispering Star” who got the Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere.
The movie directed by Sion Sono tells the story of Yoko (Megumi Kagurazaka...
- 9/26/2015
- by Sebastian Nadilo
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Pan Nalin is ecstatic about the response to his latest film, Angry Indian Goddesses, a female buddy movie that won the first runner up prize at Tiff’s Grolsch People’s Choice Awards. He’s taking in all the sights of Toronto, and has been shooting a music video for the film with his seven goddesses for the week. We caught up with Nalin before his world premiere to chat about feminism, funding the film, and his goddesses.
Was this film something that was gestating with you for a while?
Earlier when I did Samsara, and Valley of the Flowers, I did have strong female characters. I did write a couple of story lines, but it wasn’t fully developed. But very soon I realized that in India that it was very nearly impossible to raise any funds. You couldn’t even speak, because they [producers] would say, “Decades ago...
Was this film something that was gestating with you for a while?
Earlier when I did Samsara, and Valley of the Flowers, I did have strong female characters. I did write a couple of story lines, but it wasn’t fully developed. But very soon I realized that in India that it was very nearly impossible to raise any funds. You couldn’t even speak, because they [producers] would say, “Decades ago...
- 9/21/2015
- by Rumnique Nannar
- Bollyspice
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Adds New Galas and Special Presentations, Including 'Mr. Right,' 'I Saw the Light,' 'Our Brand is Crisis' and 'Equals' "Angry Indian Goddesses," the freewheeling new feature from Pan Nalin ("Samsara") is already being called "India's first female buddy movie." A celebration of female friendship and freedom, the film promises to confound genre expectations and tackle issues of gender and society in contemporary India. "Angry Indian Goddesses" follows newly betrothed Frieda (Sarah Jane Dias) as she gathers her six closest friends (including Sandhya Mridul, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Amrit Maghera) for her bachelorette party on the eve of her wedding. Relying heavily upon improvisational dialogue, the film is loaded with humor and pathos as the women embark on a "roller-coaster of girl bonding." But as the night goes on, we begin to see the power of the women's bond, and...
- 9/11/2015
- by Aubrey Page
- Indiewire
A bachelorette set to destroy romcoms, India is all set to get its first all-out female buddy film, Angry Indian Goddesses. Helming the project is the internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Pan Nalin, who is best known for his award-winning documentaries and the Indie film Samsara. Angry Indian Goddesses that marks Nalin’s debut in mainstream Bollywood, boasts of an impressive line-up including Sandhya Mridul, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Sarah-Jane Dias, Anushka Manchanda, Amrit Maghera, Rajshri Deshpande, Pavleen Gujral and is being produced by Gaurav Dhingra, who has earlier co-produced Peddlers among many other noted films. Jungle Book Entertainment, co founded by Nalin and Gaurav, with a strong slate of international films, is now entering the mainstream Bollywood space with Aig.
Talking about the film, Nalin shares that his upcoming film is one of the first films to put the buddyhood of Indian women at the heart of the story. “My attempt is to make...
Talking about the film, Nalin shares that his upcoming film is one of the first films to put the buddyhood of Indian women at the heart of the story. “My attempt is to make...
- 7/23/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Titles in development include Virginia Heath’s Mystery Ride and Taika Waititi’s Hunt For The Wilderpeople.
Australia/New Zealand production, post production and distribution company Curious is ramping up. Here in Cannes, the company has announced further details of its production slate.
Among the features Curious has in development is Mystery Ride, a UK/New Zealand co-production to be directed by Virginia Heath (From Scotland with Love), with a cast including Frances O’Connor, Peter Mullan and Sam Neill. Producers are Lene Bausager of Ugly Duckling Films, Faction North’s Grant Keir and Matt Noonan. TrustNordisk is handling international sales.
Another Curious title, Taika Waititi’s comic adventure Hunt For The Wilderpeople is now in production in New Zealand. The film, which will star Sam Neill (Peaky Blinders) and Julian Dennison, is Waititi’s follow-up tovampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.
Waititi will produce with Carthew Neal, Leanne Saunders and [link...
Australia/New Zealand production, post production and distribution company Curious is ramping up. Here in Cannes, the company has announced further details of its production slate.
Among the features Curious has in development is Mystery Ride, a UK/New Zealand co-production to be directed by Virginia Heath (From Scotland with Love), with a cast including Frances O’Connor, Peter Mullan and Sam Neill. Producers are Lene Bausager of Ugly Duckling Films, Faction North’s Grant Keir and Matt Noonan. TrustNordisk is handling international sales.
Another Curious title, Taika Waititi’s comic adventure Hunt For The Wilderpeople is now in production in New Zealand. The film, which will star Sam Neill (Peaky Blinders) and Julian Dennison, is Waititi’s follow-up tovampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.
Waititi will produce with Carthew Neal, Leanne Saunders and [link...
- 5/20/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
International co-production and co-production markets around the globe will not be the same now following the news that the internationally respected German producer-distributor Karl Baumgartner has died at the age of 65.
Known affectionately by friends and colleagues alike as ¨Baumi¨, Baumgartner hailed from the South Tyrol, but was ¨ at home¨ in different countries and cultures, working with film-makers on projects located in some of the seemingly most inaccessible or logistically nightmarish parts of the planet.
Hearing him recount the making of Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov’s Luna Papa at one of the countless co-production panels with his tales of the shooting being stopped by floods washing the set away, the outbreak of civil war and being evacuated by the Red Cross floods, one often wondered whether he purposely looked for such challenges.
Not to speak of the challenge of putting such delicate and time-consuming co-production structures together involving tried-and-tested production partners, public funders and broadcasters from across Europe and beyond...
Known affectionately by friends and colleagues alike as ¨Baumi¨, Baumgartner hailed from the South Tyrol, but was ¨ at home¨ in different countries and cultures, working with film-makers on projects located in some of the seemingly most inaccessible or logistically nightmarish parts of the planet.
Hearing him recount the making of Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov’s Luna Papa at one of the countless co-production panels with his tales of the shooting being stopped by floods washing the set away, the outbreak of civil war and being evacuated by the Red Cross floods, one often wondered whether he purposely looked for such challenges.
Not to speak of the challenge of putting such delicate and time-consuming co-production structures together involving tried-and-tested production partners, public funders and broadcasters from across Europe and beyond...
- 3/19/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Karl Baumgartner, the German producer and champion of arthouse cinema who only last month received the Berlinale Camera prize, has died.Click here for full obituary
Baumgartner was born in 1949 and after a stint working in Rome from 1967-70 he relocated to Germany where he eventually launched the producer-distributor Pandora Film with Reinhard Brundig in 1982.
Pandora established itself as a beacon for arthouse cinema and championed the likes of Kim Ki-duk, Aki Kaurismaki and Sally Potter.
As a producer he brought a handful of films to the Berlinale including Emir Kusturica’s Super 8 Stories and most recently Pia Marais’ 2013 entry Layla Fourie.
Baumgartner produced Mostly Martha and Samsara, among others, and his co-producer credits include Kaurismaki’s Le Havre. He served as executive producer on Kusturica’s 1995 Palme d’Or winner Underground.
A Tweet from the Locarno Film Festival read, “Very sad for the loss of great producer and Locarno’s friend Karl Baumgartner, Premio Raimondo...
Baumgartner was born in 1949 and after a stint working in Rome from 1967-70 he relocated to Germany where he eventually launched the producer-distributor Pandora Film with Reinhard Brundig in 1982.
Pandora established itself as a beacon for arthouse cinema and championed the likes of Kim Ki-duk, Aki Kaurismaki and Sally Potter.
As a producer he brought a handful of films to the Berlinale including Emir Kusturica’s Super 8 Stories and most recently Pia Marais’ 2013 entry Layla Fourie.
Baumgartner produced Mostly Martha and Samsara, among others, and his co-producer credits include Kaurismaki’s Le Havre. He served as executive producer on Kusturica’s 1995 Palme d’Or winner Underground.
A Tweet from the Locarno Film Festival read, “Very sad for the loss of great producer and Locarno’s friend Karl Baumgartner, Premio Raimondo...
- 3/18/2014
- ScreenDaily
Karl Baumgartner, the German producer and champion of arthouse cinema who only last month received the Berlinale Camera prize, has died.
Baumgartner was born in 1949 and after a stint working in Rome from 1967-70 he relocated to Germany where he eventually launched the producer-distributor Pandora Film with Reinhard Brundig in 1982.
Pandora established itself as a beacon for arthouse cinema and championed the likes of Kim Ki-duk, Aki Kaurismaki and Sally Potter.
As a producer he brought a handful of films to the Berlinale including Emir Kusturica’s Super 8 Stories and most recently Pia Marais’ 2013 entry Layla Fourie.
Baumgartner produced Mostly Martha and Samsara, among others, and his co-producer credits include Kaurismaki’s Le Havre. He served as executive producer on Kusturica’s 1995 Palme d’Or winner Underground.
A Tweet from the Locarno Film Festival read, “Very sad for the loss of great producer and Locarno’s friend Karl Baumgartner, Premio Raimondo...
Baumgartner was born in 1949 and after a stint working in Rome from 1967-70 he relocated to Germany where he eventually launched the producer-distributor Pandora Film with Reinhard Brundig in 1982.
Pandora established itself as a beacon for arthouse cinema and championed the likes of Kim Ki-duk, Aki Kaurismaki and Sally Potter.
As a producer he brought a handful of films to the Berlinale including Emir Kusturica’s Super 8 Stories and most recently Pia Marais’ 2013 entry Layla Fourie.
Baumgartner produced Mostly Martha and Samsara, among others, and his co-producer credits include Kaurismaki’s Le Havre. He served as executive producer on Kusturica’s 1995 Palme d’Or winner Underground.
A Tweet from the Locarno Film Festival read, “Very sad for the loss of great producer and Locarno’s friend Karl Baumgartner, Premio Raimondo...
- 3/18/2014
- ScreenDaily
Mumbai, Jan 19: Looks like actress Sarah-Jane Dias will essay a photographer in her international project titled "Angry Indian Goddesses" directed by Pan Nalin.
The first look of the movie was revealed and Sarah can be seen carrying a Canon camera in the picture. It seems she is on a boat as the background has water with a row of trees that looks like an island.
Nalin, who has previously directed features such as "Samsara" and "Valley of Flowers", says the movie is "a light-hearted female buddy film".
"We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy. It's made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it's my most commercial film till date," Nalin.
The first look of the movie was revealed and Sarah can be seen carrying a Canon camera in the picture. It seems she is on a boat as the background has water with a row of trees that looks like an island.
Nalin, who has previously directed features such as "Samsara" and "Valley of Flowers", says the movie is "a light-hearted female buddy film".
"We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy. It's made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it's my most commercial film till date," Nalin.
- 1/19/2014
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
Chennai, Dec 20: Indian audiences are "hungry for good documentaries" and an increasing number of filmmakers here are showing a keen interest towards the genre. But a cohesive network to produce and promote documentaries is missing in the country, says filmmaker Pan Nalin.
"Indian filmmakers are waking up to documentary filmmaking, but we don't have network to produce and promote documentaries. Making documentaries is a thriving business and more successful than fiction filmmaking abroad," Nalin told Ians in an email interview.
"In the Us and Europe, documentaries are often major theatrical releases. TV often broadcasts them at prime time," added the Gujarat-born filmmaker, whose movies "Samsara" and "Valley of Flowers".
"Indian filmmakers are waking up to documentary filmmaking, but we don't have network to produce and promote documentaries. Making documentaries is a thriving business and more successful than fiction filmmaking abroad," Nalin told Ians in an email interview.
"In the Us and Europe, documentaries are often major theatrical releases. TV often broadcasts them at prime time," added the Gujarat-born filmmaker, whose movies "Samsara" and "Valley of Flowers".
- 12/20/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Paris-based Indian filmmaker Pan Nalin has wrapped principal photography on his debut in mainstream Hindi cinema, coming-of-age drama Angry Indian Goddesses.
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
- 11/23/2013
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Indian filmmaker Pan Nalin has wrapped principal photography on his debut in mainstream Hindi cinema, coming-of-age drama Angry Indian Goddesses.
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
- 11/23/2013
- ScreenDaily
Pan Nalin’s documentary Faith Connections has been sold to Germany following its world premiere at Toronto.
Nfp has acquired rights for Germany to the India-French co-production, filmed at India’s Kumbh Mela religious festival. Advanced negotiations are also underway for sales to Canada, the Us, Germany and India.
The film is being sold by Raphael Berdugo’s Cite Films, which also co-produced with Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra’s Jungle Book Entertainment. Berdugo, Dhingra, Nalin and Virginie Lacombe are credited as producers.
Cite Films has already closed deals with Sdd (Sophie Dulac Distribution) for France while the Swiss rights have gone to Filmcoopi
Faith Connections follows the stories of holy men, policemen, pilgrims and a runaway child at India’s biggest religious festival, which is held once every 12 years and attracts around 100 million Hindu pilgrims.
Nalin has previously directed feature documentary Ayurveda: Art Of Being and narrative features Samsara and The Valley Of Flowers.
Christoph Ott, vp of...
Nfp has acquired rights for Germany to the India-French co-production, filmed at India’s Kumbh Mela religious festival. Advanced negotiations are also underway for sales to Canada, the Us, Germany and India.
The film is being sold by Raphael Berdugo’s Cite Films, which also co-produced with Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra’s Jungle Book Entertainment. Berdugo, Dhingra, Nalin and Virginie Lacombe are credited as producers.
Cite Films has already closed deals with Sdd (Sophie Dulac Distribution) for France while the Swiss rights have gone to Filmcoopi
Faith Connections follows the stories of holy men, policemen, pilgrims and a runaway child at India’s biggest religious festival, which is held once every 12 years and attracts around 100 million Hindu pilgrims.
Nalin has previously directed feature documentary Ayurveda: Art Of Being and narrative features Samsara and The Valley Of Flowers.
Christoph Ott, vp of...
- 9/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
“My father told me,” says director Pan Nalin, “I should travel to the ultimate pilgrimage of Hindus, Kumbh Mela, and fetch him a bottle of holy water. He told me that the Kumbh Mela is the biggest gathering on earth, and there I shall feel the force of faith that connects us all.” Nalin decides to bring his father back some stories along with his bottle of water, and the result is the incredible Faith Connections, having its World Premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Nalin brings us the stories of pilgrims and policemen, of sadhus and small children – stories of people like Hatha Yogi Baba and Baby Bajrangi, Mamta Devi and Sonu and their missing son, Sandeep, the sadhus Vivekanandji and Umeshji; and, perhaps most importantly, the story of ten-year old Kishan Tiwari, who has run away from home, and who claims to be an orphan, when he...
- 9/3/2013
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
The 2nd edition of The Inner Path, a festival on Buddhism, will be held from September 6 – 10 at Iccr, Azad Bhawan, New Delhi.
Organised by Netpac India in association with the Asoka Mission, the festival celebrates Buddhism through films, art and philosophy.
Kim Ki Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring, David Grubin’s The Buddha and Acha Dayal’s Land Of Buddha are some of the films to be screened during the five day festival.
For more information write to innerpath@netpacasia.org or netpacindia@gmail.com
For schedule, click here
Full list of films:
Alms
Director: Edward A. Burger
Angin (An Essence Of Wind)
Director: Winaldo Artaraya Swastia
Buddhism In Europe Part 2
Director: Beomsu Kim
Cave In The Snow
Director: Liz Thompson
Impermanence
Director: Goutam Ghose
Kanzeon
Director: Tim Grabham, Neil Cantwell
Karma
Director: Tsering Rhitar Sherpa
Land Of Buddha
Director: Abha Dayal
Milarepa.
Director: Liliana Cavani
Plum...
Organised by Netpac India in association with the Asoka Mission, the festival celebrates Buddhism through films, art and philosophy.
Kim Ki Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring, David Grubin’s The Buddha and Acha Dayal’s Land Of Buddha are some of the films to be screened during the five day festival.
For more information write to innerpath@netpacasia.org or netpacindia@gmail.com
For schedule, click here
Full list of films:
Alms
Director: Edward A. Burger
Angin (An Essence Of Wind)
Director: Winaldo Artaraya Swastia
Buddhism In Europe Part 2
Director: Beomsu Kim
Cave In The Snow
Director: Liz Thompson
Impermanence
Director: Goutam Ghose
Kanzeon
Director: Tim Grabham, Neil Cantwell
Karma
Director: Tsering Rhitar Sherpa
Land Of Buddha
Director: Abha Dayal
Milarepa.
Director: Liliana Cavani
Plum...
- 9/2/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Exclusive: Pan Nalin’s documentary Faith Connections has been sold to France and Switzerland ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week.
Sdd (Sophie Dulac Distribution) has acquired French rights to the India-French co-production, filmed at India’s Kumbh Mela religious festival, while the Swiss rights went to Filmcoopi. Advanced negotiations are also underway for sales to Canada, the Us, Germany and India.
The film is being sold by Raphael Berdugo’s Cite Films, which also co-produced with Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra’s Jungle Book Entertainment. Berdugo, Dhingra, Nalin and Virginie Lacombe are credited as producers.
Faith Connections follows the stories of holy men, policemen, pilgrims and a runaway child at India’s biggest religious festival, which is held once every 12 years and attracts around 100 million Hindu pilgrims.
Nalin has previously directed feature documentary Ayurveda: Art Of Being and narrative features Samsara and The Valley Of Flowers.
“We decided...
Sdd (Sophie Dulac Distribution) has acquired French rights to the India-French co-production, filmed at India’s Kumbh Mela religious festival, while the Swiss rights went to Filmcoopi. Advanced negotiations are also underway for sales to Canada, the Us, Germany and India.
The film is being sold by Raphael Berdugo’s Cite Films, which also co-produced with Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra’s Jungle Book Entertainment. Berdugo, Dhingra, Nalin and Virginie Lacombe are credited as producers.
Faith Connections follows the stories of holy men, policemen, pilgrims and a runaway child at India’s biggest religious festival, which is held once every 12 years and attracts around 100 million Hindu pilgrims.
Nalin has previously directed feature documentary Ayurveda: Art Of Being and narrative features Samsara and The Valley Of Flowers.
“We decided...
- 9/2/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Faith Connections (France/India) directed by Pan Nalin will have its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2013.
In Faith Connections, Nalin travels to Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s most extraordinary religious events. There, he encounters remarkable men of mind and meditation, some facing an inextricable dilemma; to embrace the world or to renounce it. Faith Connections explores such diverse and moving stories as a young runaway kid, a Sadhu, a mother desperately looking for her lost son, a yogi who is raising an abandoned baby, and an ascetic who keeps his calm by smoking cannabis — all connected by one faith against the spectacular display of devotion.
The documentary has been produced by Gaurav Dhingra (Peddlers, Haraamkhor), Raphael Berdugo (Eros, Caramel) and Virginie Lacombe (Le fils de l’autre, Soongava – Dance of the Orchid).
Pan Nalin, who hails from Gujarat, earlier made Samsara and Valley of Flowers.
In Faith Connections, Nalin travels to Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s most extraordinary religious events. There, he encounters remarkable men of mind and meditation, some facing an inextricable dilemma; to embrace the world or to renounce it. Faith Connections explores such diverse and moving stories as a young runaway kid, a Sadhu, a mother desperately looking for her lost son, a yogi who is raising an abandoned baby, and an ascetic who keeps his calm by smoking cannabis — all connected by one faith against the spectacular display of devotion.
The documentary has been produced by Gaurav Dhingra (Peddlers, Haraamkhor), Raphael Berdugo (Eros, Caramel) and Virginie Lacombe (Le fils de l’autre, Soongava – Dance of the Orchid).
Pan Nalin, who hails from Gujarat, earlier made Samsara and Valley of Flowers.
- 7/31/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Samsara director Pan Nalin has lined up Aamir Khan and Kate Winslet to star in his forthcoming partition film, according to reports. The duo have apparently been offered roles in an international film based on Saadat Hasan Manto's novel 'Tobe Tek Singh'. Khan will reportedly play a character who is institutionalised in a mental asylum in 1947. Nalin plans to cast (more)...
- 5/22/2009
- by By Sanjay Odedra
- Digital Spy
COLOGNE, Germany -- The Drop, a World War II action thriller featuring German stars Til Schweiger and Thomas Kretschmann, received a major financial boost Monday when Germany's largest regional film financing board, filmstifftung NRW, backed it with a 1.7 million ($2.1 million) subsidy. The feature, a co-production between Schweiger's production company Mr. Brown Entertainment and the U.K.'s Carnaby Films, is set in Holland during the second world war and tells of a race to find a hidden stash of Nazi gold. U.K. helmer Harry Hook (Aka Albert Walker) will direct. NRW also announced it was giving 1.1 million ($1.4 million) to the Germany/United Kingdom/Canada co-production Prelude to Parsival, a romantic drama set in New York in 1903 and written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Martin Barry. Other projects to receive NRW coin include Valley of Flowers, from Indian writer-director Nalin Pan (Samsara); the Miguel Sapochnik-directed You Can't Come In; and Mama und Papa, a two-part miniseries from German director Dieter Wedel.
Director Ken Loach took top honors at the 18th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. Loach claimed the Grand Jury Prize in the International Competition for his film Sweet Sixteen. The American Perspectives Jury Prize, recognizing achievement in direction, went to Shane Dax Taylor for The Grey. The Documentary Jury Prize went to Jeff Blitz for Spellbound, which is also nominated for an Academy Award. Special jury prizes were awarded to director Pan Nalin for Samsara, Lena Endre for her performance in Music for Weddings and Funerals and director Greg Pritikin for Dummy. The Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award went to Santa Barbara filmmaker Renee Bergan for her film Sadaa E Zan, shot in Afghanistan.
- 3/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AFI Fest 2002 -- held Nov. 7-17 in Hollywood -- wrapped up over the weekend with an awards ceremony Friday night and a closing-night screening of Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her on Sunday. Friday's awards ceremony was presented at the Kodak Connect Closing Party on Sunset Boulevard. In the international feature competition, Eiji Okuda's Shoujyo: An Adolescent was lauded with the grand jury prize, while special honors for acting went to Shawn Ku for his performance in Samsara and Paprika Steen for her starring turn in Okay.
- 11/19/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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