By Uma Da Cunha - Screen Weekly - India
Friday, February 16, 2007
In a year of promising new Indian films, the 57th Berlinale that was held from February 8 to 18 featured just one, Farhan Akhtar’s Don serving as Berlin Forum’s annual Bollywood film. There is no new Indian film in the Panorama, Forum or Competition. However, the Berlin’s ‘New Generation, 14-plus’ section is screening Rajnesh Domalpalli’s Vanaja, on a feisty 14-year-old girl’sstruggle to realize her gift as a Kuchipudi dancer. It is this section last year that discovered Delhi-based Joel Palombo’s Milk and Opium.
The Berlinale Talent Campus (headed by Dorothee Wenner, who knows India well) is an exciting incentive to collect emerging young film talent from the world over to gather at the Berlinale, where they can learn from their peers and like-minded colleagues. The Talent Campus’s theme this year was Home Affairs. The following six were selected this year from India.
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Mumbai-based Taran Khan has been selected as a press candidate on a profile she had written in Kabul of Siddiq Barmak. Khan has worked in Kabul as a communications consultant for UNESCO and her writing has appeared in the Hindu and DNA newspapers. Khan has a BA in journalism from Delhi’s Lady Sriram College, and an MA in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia. She is currently working on a documentary on Sufism.
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Documentary on Sufism in progress
Friday, February 16, 2007
In a year of promising new Indian films, the 57th Berlinale that was held from February 8 to 18 featured just one, Farhan Akhtar’s Don serving as Berlin Forum’s annual Bollywood film. There is no new Indian film in the Panorama, Forum or Competition. However, the Berlin’s ‘New Generation, 14-plus’ section is screening Rajnesh Domalpalli’s Vanaja, on a feisty 14-year-old girl’sstruggle to realize her gift as a Kuchipudi dancer. It is this section last year that discovered Delhi-based Joel Palombo’s Milk and Opium.
The Berlinale Talent Campus (headed by Dorothee Wenner, who knows India well) is an exciting incentive to collect emerging young film talent from the world over to gather at the Berlinale, where they can learn from their peers and like-minded colleagues. The Talent Campus’s theme this year was Home Affairs. The following six were selected this year from India.
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Mumbai-based Taran Khan has been selected as a press candidate on a profile she had written in Kabul of Siddiq Barmak. Khan has worked in Kabul as a communications consultant for UNESCO and her writing has appeared in the Hindu and DNA newspapers. Khan has a BA in journalism from Delhi’s Lady Sriram College, and an MA in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia. She is currently working on a documentary on Sufism.
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By Uma Da Cunha - Screen Weekly - IndiaFriday, February 16, 2007
In a year of promising new Indian films, the 57th Berlinale that was held from February 8 to 18 featured just one, Farhan Akhtar’s Don serving as Berlin Forum’s annual Bollywood film. There is no new Indian film in the Panorama, Forum or Competition. However, the Berlin’s ‘New Generation, 14-plus’ section is screening Rajnesh Domalpalli’s Vanaja, on a feisty 14-year-old girl’sstruggle to realize her gift as a Kuchipudi dancer. It is this section last year that discovered Delhi-based Joel Palombo’s Milk and Opium.
The Berlinale Talent Campus (headed by Dorothee Wenner, who knows India well) is an exciting incentive to collect emerging young film talent from the world over to gather at the Berlinale, where they can learn from their peers and like-minded colleagues. The Talent Campus’s theme this year was Home Affairs. The following six were selected this year from India.
(...)
Mumbai-based Taran Khan has been selected as a press candidate on a profile she had written in Kabul of Siddiq Barmak. Khan has worked in Kabul as a communications consultant for UNESCO and her writing has appeared in the Hindu and DNA newspapers. Khan has a BA in journalism from Delhi’s Lady Sriram College, and an MA in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia. She is currently working on a documentary on Sufism.
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