[Reader-list] FILM BAZAAR 2008 (November 26-29, 2008, Goa-India)

[Ganesh Kamble]

Dear Sir/Madam, 
  
Film Bazaar India is scheduled to be held in Goa from November 26 -29, 2008. A brief write-up on the program and objectives of the market is given below. We invite you to participate in Film Bazaar. The event provides an opportunity to look at new projects for purposes of production and distribution as also to explore sales opportunities for domestic and international markets. 
  
To participate in the market, we request you to register at http://www.nfdcindia.com/filmbazaar/registration.php. The Film Bazaar delegate badge also entitles you to access to the International Film Festival of India through the entire duration of the festival. 
  
Film Bazaar office at the Goa Marriott Resort opens on November 22, 2008 at 11 AM and delegate cards can be collected anytime thereafter. 
  
We urge you to register before November 15, 2008 to enable inclusion of your profile in the Delegate Manual of Film Bazaar. 
  
Best regards, 
  
The NFDC Team 
  
  
FILM BAZAAR 2008 
NOVEMBER 26-29, 2008, GOA-INDIA 
  
  
Film Bazaar is a co-production and distribution market for feature films and documentaries that reflect the diversity of India, that tell unseen and unheard stories of contemporary India, that highlight the new and the unexpected of life in India, with a view to taking these stories to international audiences. 12 feature and 10 non-feature film projects of Indian stories by filmmakers from India and abroad will be presented in the projects section to facilitate collaborations in the realms of production and distribution of these films. 
  
At the core of Film Bazaar, apart from the beauty of Goa, are the film and documentary projects that are looking for finance and sales. 
  
The Documentary section is a new section. At a time when television channels are booming in India, original Indian non-fiction content creators deserve a platform to tell their innovative and at times, remarkably brave and inspiring stories. 
  
This year at the Documentary section of the Co-production Market at Film Bazaar, we present films on contemporary Indian subjects from across the length and breadth of the country. Environmental issues, the choices facing Young India, ambitious personal journeys that are undertaken with great difficulty and a look at the winners and losers of global trade practices are some of the highlights of the selections. 
  
i. Projects on Environmental issues are: 
·          Green Oscar winner Mr. Mike Pandey looks at the global disappearance of Bees and the inevitable impact on the survival of the human race on the planet. 
·          Mr. Pramod Mathur’s project on melting glaciers in India and China echoes the same fears and presents a human picture as to how the steady decline of natural resources will have far reaching effects on us all. 
  
ii. Filmmakers with projects on young Indians and their choices as they work towards realizing their ambitions, include: 
·          Preeti Mankar’s Mad About IIT – JEE which looks at the process of applying to IIT 
·          Nitin K’s Gang of 7 follows friends from different parts of the country who met in college and migrated together to Kerala to work for an MNC 
·          AIM Television’s Killer Punch is the journey of a female boxer in Kolkata, training for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. 
  
iii. Ranjan Kamath’s Travels of My T- Shirt is an engaging attempt to look at the winners and the losers of the policies that decide global trade practices. 
  
The Feature Film section of the Co-Production market showcases some of the best filmmaking talent from the country, both established and newly discovered, through 12 feature film projects that aim to tell hidden and unseen stories of contemporary India. These 12 stories feature brave and memorable characters, journeys that are epic and emotional, stories from communities that are nestled on the fringes, and playful looks at the relationships between men and women, and between parents and their grown-up children. 
  
Projects in this section include: 
·          Projects of Camera D’Or winners Shaji Karun & Murali Nair 
·          Projects of Contemporary, cutting-edge filmmakers Anurag Kashyap (Black Friday), Ashim Ahluwalia (John & Jane), Rajan Khosa (Dance of the Wind). 
·          Indra Sinha’s Booker nominated novel ‘Animal’s People’ is up for adaptation by an English director, Michael Anderson. 
·          Suresh Productions (Hyderabad) and A Bellyful of Dreams co-production - a Tamil / Hindi bilingual – Samuel Kartikeya – about a vigilante who’s goal is to cleanse society from evil. 
  
  
We continue our partnership with the European Producers Club, who bring a slate of films that have an India connect and are looking for partners in India. Their projects, up for finance and other partnerships, are: 
·          An adaptation of Vikas Swarups’s new book ‘Six Suspects’ (by independent film company Starfield and producer Paul Raphael), 
·          West is West’, the sequel to East is East, 
·          Debutant director Amit Kumar’s feature debut. Amit Kumar is an FTII graduate whose short film Bypass has impressed filmmaking bodies the world over – has a project which the UK Film Council and Yaffle Films have developed, The Monsoon Shootout, about a rookie cop with an anti-extortion unit of the Mumbai Crime Branch; 
·          Night in Bombay is a romantic thriller set in Bombay in 1930, adapted by John Gardyne from the novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Louis Bromfield.  The film to be directed by Mahesh Mathai (Bhopal Express, Broken Thread) is it a romantic thriller set in 1930’s Bombay, 
·          The adaptation of Kabuliwala, based on the story by Rabindranath Tagore, to be made by Afghani director Atiq Rahimi (Earth and Ashes). 
  
  
Indian Panorama feature and non-feature films being showcased in IFFI 2008 will also be promoted in the market to identify sales opportunities for the same. 
  
A Business Conclave is being organized in the market, which will be co-hosted by Screen International, the international media partners of Film Bazaar. The conclave will include sessions and panel discussions on international and domestic film financing and distribution avenues for Indian and foreign films. The speakers include Michael Werner, Co-Chairman, Fortissimo Films, Gary Hamilton, Arclight Films, Anant Singh (Video Vision, South Africa), Manmohan Shetty (Walkwater Media), and Sunil Doshi. 
  
WORKSHOPS 
Film Bazaar, in association with Binger Filmlab, Netherlands, and the Entertainment Society of Goa, will conduct a screen-writing workshop for eight Indian screenplays.  Mentors for the program are Philippa Campbell, Sooni Taraporevala, Franz Rodenkirchen, and Udayan Prasad. Screenwriters’ Lab will be coordinated by Marten Rabarts, Binger Filmlab. Eight scripts have been selected for the workshop which are Saroj Satyanarayan’s Begum Akhtari, Mangesh Joshi’s Hero, Kagaz ki Kashti by Rajan Khosa, Swaraj by Nitin Kakkar, Phiroza’s Garden by Madhuri Iyer, The Death of Madhu Ambat by Madhu Ambat, Gyan Correa’s End of the Road, and Piccolo Sood’s Catching India. The workshop will be conducted and moderated by Marten Rabarts, Binger Filmlab, Netherlands. 
  
The writers will also, during the course of the market, pitch their projects on November 28, 2008 to Film Bazaar delegates. Ido Abram will conduct pitching training sessions for the writers as also for the project applicants. 
  
A Work-in-progress Lab for filmmakers with films at rough-cut stage is being organized with a view to reviewing selected films at the rough-cut stage in order to maximise the potential of these films festivals and international markets. The advisors of the workshop are Gary Hamilton, Managing Director, Arclight Films, Derek Malcolm (former Critic, the Guardian, UK) and Molly Stensgaard, Editor (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville.) The workshop will be moderated by Molly Stensgaard. 
  
A master class session is being organized in collaboration with IIFW, which will focus on the body of work of eminent filmmaker Shyam Benegal. 
  
PARTNERS 
The event is supported by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India and the State Government of Goa. Key partners as on date include the Entertainment Society of Goa, the European Producers Club, Embassy of France (India), Hubert Bals Fund (Rotterdam Film Festival), Binger Filmlab (Netherlands), SPAA, Australia, National Film & Video Foundation (South Africa), Business of Cinema.com, and Indian Television.com. 
  
The international media partner of Film Bazaar is Screen International. Online media partners in India include Indian Television.com and Business of Cinema.com. 
  
AWARDS 
The Hubert Bals Fund will give an award of 5000 Euros to a project as development funding. The Entertainment Society of Goa will confer an award of Rs. 2 lakhs on the best documentary project. 
  
About the Hubert Bals Fund: The Hubert Bals Fund is an initiative of the International Film Festival Rotterdam that provides grants to remarkable cinema projects in various stages of completion. 
  
SOME DELEGATES… 
Confirmed delegates include Michael Werner (Chairman, Fortissimo Films), Gary Hamilton (MD, Arclight Films), Anant Singh (Video vision, South Africa), Emma Clarke (New Cinema Fund, UK Film Council), Claudia Steffen (Pandora Films), ICA Films (UK), MDC International (Germany), Sundance Film Festival, Flying Moon Production (Germany), Irresistible Films (Hong Kong), Unlimited Films (France), Hanway Films (UK), Razor Film Production (Germany), Salzgeber (Germany) etc. 
  
CONSULTANT 
Ido Abram (Director Binger Filmlab), formerly Director, Cinemart, is consultant to Film Bazaar India this year. 
  
He has also been and is consultant to Producers’ Network, Cannes Film Market, to the European Film Market of Berlin Film Festival, Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum, and an advisor to the Dutch Film Fund. 
  
  
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THANKS


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