Mumbai
Academy of Moving Images (MAMI)
24.10.2013,
Mumbai
From
El Sur directed by Victor Erice, Florian Rey’s Carmen, Yesterday
Never Ends directed by Isabel Coixet and Costa Gavras’ Eden is West
to Charles Chaplin’s The Floorwalker, Praveen Morchhale’s Barefoot to
Goa and Axelle Ropert’s Miss and the doctors, Virgin Talkies
by K.R Manoj among others ,the list of movies screened were illustrious. The
Indian Popular Film screened was Baishe Srabon written and directed by
Srijit Mukherji about a detective who struggles to find the killer who leaves
verses from Bengali poems next to his victims. The critically acclaimed film
received a boisterous round of applause from the audience.
Continuing
his master class on 3D, Oscar Academy Member and Stereoscopic Department Head
of Walt Disney Animation Studios Mr. Robert Neuman simplified further the
complexities of 3D technology. His talk was followed by the Indian premiere of The
Little Mermaid 3D.
Crowd
sourcing has two important C's in them - community and credibility. India does
not have a state funding and that is where crowd funding comes into place"
said Yogesh Karikurve, Co-founder of Catapooolt. Director of the movie Lucia,
Mr. Pawan Kumar added to the discussion saying “I realized soon enough that my
film Lucia was not going to get any producer. So, a lot of frustrated blogs and
Facebook status messages helped me get followers who helped me make the movie.
For Lucia, we gave people distribution links as a way of returning the money."
Bhawana Somaaya/ @bhawanasomaaya
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