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Mira Nair-produced Three And A Half and Amitav Kaul’s Interpreter Of Maladies are among the 32 projects selected for the Co-production Market of this year’s Film Bazaar (Nov 20-24) in Goa, India.

Three And A Half will be directed by Mira Nair’s long-time collaborator Sooni Taraporewala, while Interpreter Of Maladies is based on Pultizer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story.

Organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), the co-production market has previously selected projects such as Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, Kanu Behl’s Cannes title Titli and Chaitanya Tamhane’s recent Venice winner Court. This year’s selection comprises 18 projects from India and 14 from overseas.

The Indian line-up also includes six projects previously selected for Nfdc Screenwriters Lab, such as Aamir Bashir’s Winter and The Boyfriend from Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia.

The international line-up includes two projects from the Us, two from Sri Lanka and projects from Pakistan, Afghanistan...

Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment is producing Amit Kumar’s Give Me Blood and Vasan Bala’s Side Hero.

Sikhya produced Bala’s Peddlers, which premiered at Cannes Critics Weeks last year, and was also a co-producer on Kumar’s last film Monsoon Shootout, which premiered in official selection at Cannes 2013.

“Side Hero is a slice-of-life comedy which is in the last stages of discussion on finance and cast. We are locking the script of Give Me Blood and will begin to look for international co-producers soon,” said Monga.

Give Me Blood, about two Indian soldiers serving in the British Indian army during World War II, was selected for Film Bazaar’s Co-production Market last year.

Veteran Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal and Qissa director Anup Singh are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for the Co-production Market at this year’s Film Bazaar in Goa, India.Scroll down for full list of projects

Benegal has been making award-winning films since the 1970s – most recently satires Welcome To Sajjanpur and Well Done Abba. Singh’s Qissa: The Tale Of A Lonely Ghost is currently having a successful run on the festival circuit.

International projects at Film Bazaar include Amok, from Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento and produced by the UK’s Anna Holburn; UK filmmaker Robert Mullan’s Son Of India; Malabar Court, directed by Niara Modi and produced by Canada’s Paul Scherzer; and Polish director Piotr Trzaskalski’s Incredible.

The line-up also include one project in partnership with the Netherlands’ Boost programme, Bikas Mishra’s Wild Fire, and one project with Ifp, Varenya directed by Shripriya Mahesh.

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New Delhi, April 4: Ashvin Kumar's feature film "The Forest", which was earlier sceheduled for April 13 release, will now hit the screens May 4.

Known for making issue-based documentaries, Kumar has has merged complications of human relationship with wildlife in "The Forest", a love triangle with a subplot of a man-eating leopard.

The 86-minute movie featuring Javed Jafferi, Nandana Sen, Ankur Vikal and Salim Ali Zaidi will be released by PVR cinemas across the country.

"The Forest" has been premiered at Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose in February 2009 and it was also show at the Cannes Market in 2009.

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At a time when the UK film industry seems increasingly inward-looking, a recurring theme of the 46 films which Jeremy Thomas has produced has been cross-cultural -- whether it’s Japanese director Takeshi Kitano looking at America in Brother (2000) or Bernardo Bertolucci retelling Chinese history in the Best Picture Oscar-winner The Last Emperor (1987). He also exec-produced Takeshi Miike’s 13 Assassins, which competed at Venice last month and will work on Miike's next pic. Thomas specialises in filming the un-filmable, whether William S Burrough's novel Naked Lunch or Jg Ballard’s notorious Crash or his latest plan: a pic about North Korean dictator Kim-Jong il. Currently in post on David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, Thomas gave the keynote interview at Wednesday’s Film London Production Finance Market as part of the BFI London Film Festival which is where I interviewed him. As the former chairman of the British Film institute, he...

Twitter has finally decided to start making money. They're buying or making services and software to fill the holes in their own business plan, and they've rolled out a plot for advertising, the first stage of which is called Promoted Tweets. All of that seems to spell trouble for the existing third-party Twitter infrastructure, including developers of apps, services, and even advertising.

So why aren't third-party app developers shaking with fear?

Twitter has never been shy about plans to one day benefit from the innovations of third parities that, for a good long while now, have benefited from Twitter. Third-party developers, in other words, must have seen this coming. Even before announcing Promoted Tweets, Twitter had begun "filling the holes" in their product line. There was no mobile app, no image uploader, and no URL shortener, all of which are essential for Twitter users. So the company took a smart course and bought Tweetie,...

Film makers Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair, and Indian television giant Ekta Kapoor have been listed as most influential South Asian Women Executives in the Media and Entertainment industry. A list of twenty two women who have excelled in media and entertainment has been announced by Korn/Ferry International in consultation with Iffla. These women will be honoured during the 8th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) that will be held from April 20-25.

Bill Simon, senior client partner and managing director of Korn/Ferry International's Global Media & Entertainment Sector, said, "This past year has seen a substantial growth in Indian companies in Hollywood.  Indian entertainment is no longer a niche industry, but a burgeoning global business that has expanded into the mainstream.  These remarkable women have each contributed much to bridge east and west and their continuing efforts will benefit all in the entertainment and media for years to come.

I started walking around London in my mind. It started when I wrote the entry about Jermyn Street. In mentioning Wilton's I should have mentioned that on my first visit there I ordered roast turkey with fresh peaches. I know, it sound like the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore routine about the Frog & Peach, but nevertheless that's what I had, with a raspberry syllabub for dessert.

In my mind my walk didn't stop when Jermyn Street ended at St. James. I imagined walking down St. James and into the park, and around the ponds. And admiring the view of Westminster Abbey from the bridge. And then perhaps out one end of the park toward Victoria or into Pimlico.

Pushing on now, following an instinctive guidance system in my mind, I stop for coffee at that little street (I know just how to find it) with all the cafes and an assortment of street venders.

Gearing up for a romantic upcoming weekend, Paris Hilton was out shopping for Valentine's Day at the Beverly Glen Market in Beverly Glen, California on Saturday afternoon (February 6).

During the course of her retail outing, the hotel heiress played with a puppy in between picking up a few items for the lover's holiday.

Afterwards, Paris headed back home for some quality time with boyfriend Doug Reinhardt, tweeting, "Laying in bed watching Harold and Kumar with my love."

A short while later, Paris wrote, "Going to bed, sweet dreams everyone. Have to get up and set up for my Super Bowl Party!"...

One month, 280 films and 70,000 words later, my guide to the films of 2010 is now complete. I hope you've enjoyed reading it all - it's been utterly exhausting but an ultimately rewarding venture I've been single-handedly pulling together since early December. If you have liked it, my only request is that you help spread the word about it now that it's all done.

If you're a fellow blogger or site owner, please give it a plug on your site. If you're a reader, give it a mention on Facebook, Twitter or other online places you might venture. A lot of effort went into this, the greatest reward so far has been seeing it talked about and hearing your reactions. I'm glad many of you have gotten a lot of use out of the previous pages, so I hope you enjoy this final part:

Vincere

Opens: 2010

Cast: Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Corrado Invernizzi,...

(Cult)ure is at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, at the St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities, in the Byward Market, from April 22nd to May 2nd.

On Thursday, April 23, Thomas Homer-Dixon, the academic and bestselling author, and journalist William Marsden discussed climate change. The discussion was framed around the book Homer-Dixon recently edited, called "Carbon Shift," about the twin problems of climate change and peak oil. Marsden contributed an essay [...]...

While you were sleeping, innovation plotted its comeback. Here's today's innovation news:

President Obama's auto task force appears ready to keep Gm and Chrysler afloat with more bailout loans, pending concessions from management, the auto unions, and Gm's bondholders. "It's like a Rubik's cube, trying to untwist it and trying to get all the colors to line up," says task-force chief Steven Rattner. When we offered up 25 ideas for how to fix the auto industry, we didn't know about the Rubik's Cube strategy. So here's one more: Let's get the guy in this video to help. [via WSJ's Neil King Jr. and John D. Stoll] Market researcher Information Resources Inc. released its list of the most successful new grocery-store products of 2008, and the winners that generated more than $100 million in sales include Gatorade's lower-calorie G2 sports drink, Dunkin' Donuts coffee, Campbell's low-sodium soup, and the weight-loss drug Alli. Not surprisingly, given a careful study of this list, Charmin...

Click above for more movie stills Dino Morea can't help but shrug away in sheer despair as he sees an age old film of his being promoted all over again on satellite channels en route to it's Friday's release. Worse, the film is being marketed as a sleaze flick when it is actually a mystery thriller. We are talking about Gumnaam - The Mystery which was incidentally known as Gumnaam - The Unknown when it's promos started coming on air first 4 years back. Quiz Dino on the delayed release of the film and all the young man has to say is, "I really have no say, it's a five year old film." When the film was launched, Gumnaam - The Mystery seemingly boasted of an interesting cast. Coming together of Dino Morea, Mahima Chaudhary and Suman Ranganathan sounded quite fresh and surprising due to it being unique and unpredictable. At that time,...

I know I’m at Los Angeles’ American Film Market when, as soon as I get off the plane, I run into Lloyd Kaufman (in a men’s room, no less). The Troma chief serves as the Chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance, which runs the Afm. Who better to chair an organization and market dedicated to discovering and promoting movies created outside the studio system than Kaufman?

This November, the Afm unveils over 500 films in dozens of languages for prospective international buyers. They screen the majority of these new motion pictures at seven different screening venues in sunny Santa Monica. The Afm is the proud home for the smaller guys, foreign and art-house features and B- to Z-grade movies. Just about everything stars Michael Madsen, C. Thomas Howell and/or Billy Zane. Best of all, the number of genre films has increased substantially over the 11 years I’ve been coming here,...

We’ve been keeping an eye on Luster, the latest from Devil’s Chair, Broken and Blood River writer-director duo of Simon Boyes and Adam Mason - regular podcasters on this site - and today our patience was rewarded with an exclusive first look at the sales promo for the picture. Now, this is not a trailer per se, but a reel prepared to present and sell the film at the recently concluded American Film Market. It hasn’t been through post production yet so it’s still a bit ragged around the edges in parts but it’s more than enough to show that Mason has taken a surprising direction with this one, leaving the intense horror of his previous pictures behind in favor of absurd black comedy.

Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer...

The folks at Son of Jason Films sent Fangoria a trio of exclusive clips from their new fright feature Sam Hell; you can see them below. The movie was directed by Michael Bayouth, who was also one of the producers and gives the company its name: He’s the offspring of Ted White, who played masked maniac Voorhees in Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter.

“In Sam Hell, a young man who runs a Halloween spooky house finds what he believes to be an old movie prop at a yard sale, and decides to work it into his chilling attraction,” Bayouth tells Fango. “The grotesque decayed head in a cage turns out to be the real remains of a deranged mass murderer who begins to possess Sean, making him continue his bloody killing spree. When Sean’s girlfriend Jill realizes what’s happening, she enlists a pair of paranormal ass-kickers...

Matthew Barry began his Hollywood life as an actor, appearing in such films as The Wraith and Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna. These days he's a respected casting director who has worked with the likes of Jerry Bruckheimer, Tim Burton, and Nick Cassavetes. What, exactly, prompted the change in career tracks? "I was about to turn 30 years old, and I was bored," Barry says bluntly. "I was doing some really bad television, and I remember sitting on the set one day, going, 'There's got to be more to life than this.'" After a brief stint in the UCLA film program, the NewYork City native decided to ask director Barry Levinson for a job — any job. "I knew an associate of his who hooked me up," Barry recalls. "The production manager [on Levinson's film Toys] said, 'Well, we need some help in casting.' I started working with Ellen Chenoweth on that film and loved every minute of it.