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Beyond Glamour: hassles of a film producer

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 0 Comments 3rd National Film Awards, Academy Award winner, artists, Bahubali, Best Bengali Feature Film, Best Feature Film, budget, Cinema, creativity, determination, director, Entertainment, expense, feature films, filmmaker, films, glamour, graphic artist, industry, lyricist, modern, music composer, Oscar, Pather Panchali, producer, production, Satyajit Ray, screenwriter, special effects, VFX

The film industry entails a lot of struggle along with its glamour. There is a lot of emotional, physical and monetary capital which goes into film making. Unlike today, there were times without VFX. What drove the director and the team to the culmination of films? How did they manage? Well, an Academy Award Winner has his narrative to share.

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Film festivals in the age of Netflix

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 Editor 0 Comments Actors, amazon prime, art form, artform, audience, Celebration, Cinema, cultural exchange, democratic, Dharamshala International Film Festival, digital age, documentary, film festivals, filmmakers, films, intellectual exchange, international fims, International Queer Film Festival, Internet, KASHISH, Kerala, LGBT film festival, Media, movies, netflix, regional film festivals, Sangeetha Nataka Akademy Campus, short film, shows, silver screen, streaming, technology, Thrissur, ViBGYOR, visual literacy

The advent of multitude of streaming sites has furnished this generation with a comfortable exercise of watching and discussing cinema online. But nothing can steal the thunder of ‘Film Festivals’ and the plethora of intellectual and cultural exchange it offers. From international to regional to LGBTQ, it is an inclusive democratic art form.