The Santa Barbara International Film Festival Aims For Biggest Year Yet

Three weeks before hitting the Academy Awards red carpet at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, several stars will travel two hours north to attend the 31st annual Santa Barb...

Hollywood Executives' Quiet Ban On Women In The Movies, By The Numbers.

On Monday, L.A. Weekly’s cover story, “How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls,” reported on the dearth of films written by women...

Women Power In Vogue, Say Vidya Balan, Sharmila Tagore.

Dubbing the Kolkata International Film Festival’s (KIFF) endeavour to focus on films helmed by women as “poetic justice”, Bollywood actresses Vidya B...

Geena Davis: Unconscious Bias Is Hurting Women in Hollywood.

Geena Davis is making it her mission to educate Hollywood on gender equality. For years the actor has been very vocal about the dire need for equal gender representati...

No Role Parity Between Male, Female Actors: Sharmila Tagore.

Sharmila Tagore said the difference in wages of male and female actors still exists in the Hindi film industry. Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore rued that male actors s...

Ayushmann Khuranna Supports Thespo.

– Wins top prize on game show Deal or No Deal, contributes entire sum to the festival –

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Amitabh Bachchan To Be Approached To Spread Legal Awareness.

Bollywood actors have always associated themselves with social causes and now they might be seen on screen to promote legal awareness in the country with National Legal Ser...

MANNA DEY

It was in late 1996 that I started the Bimal Roy Memorial with a view to honour my father, whose films continued to thrill audiences, and still do. Very few individuals fro...

Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival Winners And Disappointments

When festival director Tine Fischer started CPH: DOX 13 years ago, her mission was to “take documentary into as many directions as possible.” This meant the cre...