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Jatla Siddartha
Jatla Siddartha, also credited as Siddartha Jatla (sometimes spelt Siddhartha Jatla), is an Indian film director and cinematographer. He is known for his feature films ''Love and Shukla'' (2017) and ''In the Belly of a Tiger'' (2024). Early life and education Siddartha Jatla was born and raised in India. His father was a film director, and his mother an actress. His father used to take him at the age of six to film clubs showing serious films by independent filmmakers, which he found boring. After seeing ''Jurassic Park'', he wanted to be like Steven Spielberg, and he later admired the Chinese director Zhang Yimou. His mother encouraged him to study cinematography, but he always wanted to be a director. He graduated in cinematography from the Film and Television Institute of India, after spending five and a half years there. He was then admitted to the cinematography program at the Asian Film Academy as part of cultural exchange program of the Busan Film Festival. Career The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Film Festival
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF, formerly ADLFF) is film festival usually held for two weeks in mid-October in cinemas in Adelaide, South Australia. Originally presented biennially in March from 2003, since 2013 AFF has been held in October. Subject to funding, the festival has staged full or briefer events in alternating years; some form of event has taken place every year since 2015. From 2022 it takes place annually. It has a strong focus on local South Australian and Australian produced content, with the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (AFFIF) established to fund investment in Australian films. Established in 2003 as Adelaide International Film Festival, it dropped "International" from its title after the inaugural edition, as it dropped its FIAPF membership the following year. It was, however, the first film festival in Australia to introduce an international competition, as well as being the first to fund film production directly. The festival hosts a num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Film Directors
India has many regional film centres, such as Bollywood (Hindi) in Mumbai, Telugu cinema (Tollywood) in Hyderabad, Marathi cinema in Pune, Tamil cinema in Chennai, Malayalam cinema in Kochi, Kannada cinema in Bangalore, Odia Cinema in Bhubaneswar, Assamese cinema in Guwahati, Punjabi cinema in Mohali and Bengali cinema in Kolkata . Most Indian film directors are known for their work with one regional industry, while many others are active directors of films from multiple industries. Directors of parallel or independent cinema Parallel Cinema is otherwise known as " Art films" cinema, and is known for its serious and realistic films with real-life situations. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian government financed a number of such films, on Indian themes. Many of the directors were graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Ritwik Ghatak was a professor at the institute and a well-known director in his own right. The best-known Indian "neo-realist" is Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SIGNIS Awards (Sri Lanka)
The SIGNIS Awards are presented annually by SIGNIS, the Roman Catholic lay movement for communication media professionals, to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. There are SIGNIS chapters in numerous countries and this article deals with the Sri Lankan chapter. Background SIGNIS (Sri Lanka) developed in November 2001 from the merger of national chapters of OCIC and Unda. OCIC was the international Catholic communications organisation for cinema and Unda was the international Catholic organisation for radio and television. Both organisations were founded in 1928 in Sri Lanka. SIGNIS Sri Lanka is one of 16 Asian units of the worldwide association of SIGNIS, which general secretariat is established in Brussels, Belgium. Leading directors in Sri Lanka cinema have described being inspired by the Film Review Caucus, a mini-theater organized by OCIC in Colombo. It arranged screenings and encouraged students to write r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
The Jogja- NETPAC Asian Film Festival (JAFF) is an annual film festival held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The festival has partnered with the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema since its inaugural edition in 2006. It aims to introduce Asian cinema to a wider audience and provides a space for arts, culture and tourism. The 17th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival was held from 26 November to 3 December 2022. History Several Indonesian filmmakers, Garin Nugroho, Ifa Isfansyah, Budi Irawanto, Yosep Anggi Noen, Ajish Dibyo, Dyna Herlina and Ismail Basbeth along with NETPAC curator Philip Cheah, initiated the festival. The first edition of the festival was held from 7 to 12 August 2006, about three months after the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (also known as the Bantul earthquake) occurred at with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (''Damaging''). Several factors led to a disproportionate amount of damage and numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NETPAC Award
The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is a worldwide organization of 29 member countries. It was created as the result of a conference on Asian cinema organized by Cinemaya, the Asian Film Quarterly, in New Delhi in 1990 at the instance and with the support of UNESCO, Paris. Headquartered in Singapore, the NETPAC is a pan-Asian film cultural organization involving critics, filmmakers, festival organizers and curators, distributors and exhibitors, as well as film educators. It is considered a leading authority on Asian cinema. Since 1990, it has programmed Asian sections of international film festivals, introduced filmmakers from Asia to the world, brought out a compendium of the existing film infrastructure in different Asian countries, organized seminars and conferences and instituted an award for the Best Asian Film at festivals like Singapore, Busan, Jeonju, Kerala, Kazakhstan and Osian's Cinefan among those in Asia; Berlin, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Vesou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wuershan
Wuershan (''simplified Chinese'': δΉε°ε) is a Chinese film director who was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on June 10, 1972. He is of Mongol ethnicity. Wuershan's first feature film was ''Soap Opera'' (2004), for which he was awarded the FIPRESCI Award at the Pusan International Film Festival. He went on to direct blockbusters ''The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman'' (2010), '' Painted Skin: The Resurrection'' (2012), and '' Mojin: The Lost Legend'' (2015), for which he was awarded the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director at the 33rd Hundred Flowers Awards. In 2019, he started on the production of the ''Fengshen Trilogy''. Early life Wuershan was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, in 1972. At 16 he enrolled to a high school affiliated to China's Central Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1992 he was admitted to the oil painting department of the latter. However, he dropped out the following year, and in 1994 started studying directing at the Beijing Film Academy, gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Color Grading
Color grading is a post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing of altering the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices. Various attributes of an image such as contrast, color, saturation, detail, black level, and white balance may be enhanced whether for motion pictures, videos, or still images. Color grading and color correction are often used synonymously as terms for this process and can include the generation of artistic color effects through creative blending and compositing of different layer masks of the source image. Color grading is generally now performed in a digital process either in a controlled environment such as a color suite, and is usually done in a dim or dark environment. The earlier photochemical film process, referred to as color timing, was performed at a film lab during printing by varying the intensity and color of light used to expose the rephotographed image. Since, with this proces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slumdog Millionaire
''Slumdog Millionaire'' is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel '' Q & A'' (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup. It narrates the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. Starring Dev Patel as Jamal, and filmed in India, the film was directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson, with Loveleen Tandan credited as co-director. As a contestant on '' Kaun Banega Crorepati'', an Indian-Hindi version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,'' Jamal surprises everyone by being able to answer every question correctly, winning . Accused of cheating, Jamal recounts his life story to the police, illustrating how he is able to answer each question correctly. After its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and later screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival, ''Slumdog Millionaire'' had a nationwide release in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009, in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resul Pookutty
Resul Pookutty (born 30 May 1971) is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor and audio mixer. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp, for ''Slumdog Millionaire''. Pookutty has worked in Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam languages in addition to British films. Early life Born into a family in Vilakkupara, near Anchal about 40 km from Kollam, Kerala, India. He was the youngest of eight children. His father was a private bus ticket checker. Pookutty had to walk 6 km to the nearest school and study in the light of a kerosene lamp as his village had no electricity. He did his bachelor's degree in physics from Milad-E-Sherief Memorial College, Kayamkulam during 1987β1990. He joined Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram for studying Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree, however, he was unable to complete it. In 1995, he graduated from Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. In 2014, he wrote the remaining LLB exam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umebayashi Shigeru
(born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer. Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film scores to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from Seijun Suzuki's ''Yumeji''), included in director Wong Kar-wai's ''In the Mood for Love'' (2000). Umebayashi scored most of Wong Kar-wai's follow-up film, ''2046'' (2004), and ''House of Flying Daggers''. He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, '' Charleston & Vendetta''. Umebayashi received the special "Tomislav Pinter Award" aAvvantura Film Festival Zadar(Croatia) in 2013 during his stay as member of the official Jury. Filmography 1980s * ''Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru'' (1984) * ''Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure'' (1985) * ''Sorekara'' (1985) * ''Sorobanzuku'' (1986) * ''Shinshi Domei'' (1986) * ''Kyohu no Yacchan'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firstpost
''Firstpost'' is an Indian online news and media website. The site is a part of the Network 18 media conglomerate owned by Reliance Industries, which also runs CNN-News18 and CNBC-TV18. The ''Network 18'' group was originally owned by Raghav Bahl. In January 2012, the group received an investment from Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries through a rights issue of up to 2,700 crore. History In May 2013, the news group was merged with the Indian edition of '' Forbes India'' whose four top editorial heads including editor in chief Indrajit Gupta were dismissed. The event led to a media furor. Thereafter on 31 May 2013, ''Firstpost'' took over a satirical website Fakingnews.com for an undisclosed amount. As of April 2020, Jaideep Giridhar is the executive editor of ''Firstpost'' in Mumbai, while Sanjay Singh is the deputy executive editor. References External links * Internet properties established in 2011 Indian news websites Mass media in Mumbai Network18 G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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