Friday, 25 October 2013

Cutting Chai with Bhawana Somaaya - Day 216


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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