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Nandita Dutta
FeaturesFilmart 2015: HAF profiles
Profiles of projects from the 13th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).
NewsIME hops on board Lala
EXCLUSIVE: Pune and Mumbai-based IME Motion Pictures will co-produce Indo-Italian project Lala, to be directed by Goutam Ghose.
NewsNFDC, Dussart bond over Avani
EXCLUSIVE: India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and France’s Catherine Dussart Productions have boarded Rajnesh Domalpalli’s rural fable Avani as co-producers.
NewsPallas ignites for Rajesh Jala’s The Spark
EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Pallas Film will co-produce Rajesh Jala’s The Spark (Chingari) with France’s ASAP Films, which boarded the project at Film Bazaar last year.
NewsFarahani stung by Scorpions
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani will star in Qissa director Anup Singh’s upcoming drama Mantra - The Song Of Scorpions.
NewsAltamar has Invisible One in sight
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based producer Alexa Rivero will co-produce Amit Dutta’s The Invisible One through her newly-established production company Altamar Films.
NewsLe Boxeur joins Revolution
EXCLUSIVE: Joris van Wijk of Amsterdam-based Le Boxeur Films has boarded Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla’s documentary Proposition For A Revolution as a co-producer.
FeaturesMostofa S. Farooki, Ant Story
After winning a special mention last year for Television, the Bangladeshi filmmaker returns to DIFF with Ant Story.
FeaturesMahmoud Kaabour, Champ of the Camp
The Lebanese filmmaker talks to Liz Shackleton about his documentary, which premiered at DIFF.
NewsImaginarium wraps Assaf’s Curve
Jordanian director Rifqi Assaf is in post-production on his debut feature The Curve, co-produced by Jordan’s The Imaginarium Films and Egypt’s Film Clinic.
NewsAlfons joins Mostafa’s A To B
EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian comedian Shadi Alfons will join Saudi stand-up comic Fahad Albutairi in the cast of Emirati filmmaker Ali F Mostafa’s road film A To B, which starts shooting in February.
NewsGreenlight Films planning genre trio
EXCLUSIVE: Emirati director-actor Abdullah Aljunaibi’s Greenlight Films is planning a slate of three genre films, kicking off with action thriller Run, which is scheduled to start shooting in March, 2014.
NewsAl Turki, Golubovich to launch film fund
Saudi-born Hollywood producer Mohammed Al Turki is setting up a film fund, RAV Raw Artist Vision, with Russian producer Arcadiy Golubovich.
NewsFilmi financing Martyr, Dolphins
Dubai-based film funding initiative Filmi is financing Emirati animated feature Martyr Of The Flag and Waleed Al Shehhi’s IWC Filmmaker Award winner Dolphins.
NewsIraq’s Children Of The Future debut at DIFF
DIFF has added a new section, Iraqi Legacy: Children of the Future, which will screen six short films from Iraq’s new generation of filmmakers.
NewsDreamWorks: bright future for directors
DreamWorks Animation producer Jane Hartwell and senior VFX supervisor Markus Manninen explained how new production processes are empowering the vision of the director, in a session on ‘The Future of Animation’ at the Cinematic Innovation Summit (CIS) in Dubai yesterday.
NewsASAP to produce Jala's The Spark
EXCLUSIVE: France’s ASAP Films has boarded Rajesh Jala’s The Spark (Chingari) at NFDC Film Bazaar 2013. Selected for NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab and Co-production Market, the project also won the Incredible India award announced on the closing night of Film Bazaar.
NewsSebastian finds funding, co-producer
Vasant Nath’s drama Sebastian Wants To Remember has found an Indian co-producer and secured a grant of $68,000 (€50,000) from EU Media Development.
NewsKauwboy wins at India’s ICFFI
Dutch filmmaker Boudewijn Koole’s Kauwboy won the Golden Elephant for best film in the International Live-action Competition at this year’s International Children’s Film Festival of India (ICFFI) which wrapped in Hyderabad on Nov 20.
NewsProducers urged to tailor materials for int’l market
Sales agents urged Indian producers to pay more attention to the materials they require to handle a film’s international distribution at a Film Bazaar seminar on The Role Of A Sales Agent.