Festivals

Talented South Asian Filmmakers at the Locarno Film Festival

Sanjeewa Pushpakumara’s latest film project ‘Amma’ has been selected as one of the eight projects in the Open Doors section, which is the Prestigious Locarno...

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Uttarakhand to Host India's First Ever Butterfly Festival

India houses more than 1200 species of birds and 1300 species of butterflies. While bird tourism is already on a roll in India, butterfly tourism is slowly and steadily catchi...

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The Cannes Red-Carpet Protest: 82 Women Protest Inequality in the Film Industry

The Harvey Weinstein scandal was an awakening the world much needed. Thanks to that, the conversation around women in the film industry is finally seeing a shift, with initiat...

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Call Her Ganda: A Mother's Chance to fight for her Daughter

Call Her Ganda, a documentary by Filipino-American director PJ Raval made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film recounts the tale of how Jennifer Laude, a ...

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Theatre Festivals still in an Amorphous Stage in India

Going out on a weekend to watch a theatre play is not what comes to one's mind in India. Those who watch plays will agree with me that it truly is a magical experience. But it...

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Tribeca Film Festival is for the Virtual Reality Enthusiasts

Virtual Reality (VR) is the latest form of storytelling in Hollywood. Among film festivals, the Tribeca Film Festival has one of the strongest relationships with VR, with seve...

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Cannes in Support of Films made by Dissident Directors

The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Asghar Farhadi's psychological thriller Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem, Pen&e...

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The First Annual Interplanetary Festival in Mexico

The first annual Interplanetary Festival will draw space enthusiasts from around the world for a two-day celebration of human ingenuity on June 7 and 8, 2018, in Santa Fe, New...

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Pride in Art to Launch the Vancouver Queer Art Gallery

What is a mark? The Queer Arts Festival ask a simple question. In a settler colonial society, we have a very solidified perception of what “counts” as worthy of ar...

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Major Music Festivals sign up for Change

Last year, a BBC study of 14 major UK festivals for the last decade found out that of the 660 headline appearances, only 37 were all-female acts. This year’s Wireless fe...

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FESTIVALS: GRAND FINALE AT KASHISH PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL

Indian Trans and Non-Binary filmmakers, actors win big at 15th KASHISH Pride Film Festiv...

May 23 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: REVERSING ROLES IN CHAALCHITRA EKHON

‘Chaalchitra Ekhon’ serves as a reflective piece on the generational shift f...

May 22 2024

FESTIVALS: NANAD BHABHI TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE SAYS ZAIKAK

Homemakerz has achieved a reasonable retail turnover every month, in Mumbai, Pune, Goa, ...

May 21 2024