Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English. He won four National Film Awards in India. Internationally, his films won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. As a director and screenwriter, he is considered one of the pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema.
Mrinal Sen was an Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Tapan Sinha, Sen played major role in the New Wave cinema of eastern India.
John Abraham is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Known for his stoic action hero persona, he has won a National Film Award and received nominations for five Filmfare Awards.
Aparna Sen is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has received several accolades as an actress and filmmaker, including nine National Film Awards, five Filmfare Awards and thirteen Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. For her contribution in the field of arts, the Government of India honoured her with Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian award.
Víctor Erice Aras is a Spanish film director. He is best known for his two feature fiction films, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, and El Sur (1983).
Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and has to date completed 55 feature films and 50 documentaries. He is regarded as one of India's finest and best cinematographers. He Has Won Twelve National Film Awards, Six Filmfare Awards, Four Kerala State Film Awards and Three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards respectively.
Bijaya Jena (also known as Dolly Jena or Bijoya Jena, born 16 August in Cuttack, Odisha, is an Indian actor, film director and producer. She won the Indian National Film Award for the Odia language film Tara.
Assamese cinema, also known as Jollywood, is an Indian film industry of Assamese-language motion pictures. It is based in Assam, India. The industry was born in 1935 when Jyoti Prasad Agarwala released his movie Joymoti. Since then the Assamese cinema has developed a slow-paced, sensitive style, especially with the movies of Bhabendra Nath Saikia and Jahnu Barua. The industry is called Jollywood, named for Agarwala's Jyoti Chitraban Film Studio.
Heather Rae is an American film and television producer and director. She has worked on documentary and narrative film projects, and is best known for Frozen River, Trudell, and Tallulah.
Cinereach is a nonprofit film funding organization in New York, NY, founded in 2006, which provides grants, awards, an annual fellowship, and in-house film production. The organization also has partnerships with other film development organizations such as the Sundance Institute and other film funding organizations.
Christopher Leggett is an American producer of films, television, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. In 2013, Leggett joined as a partner at Delirio Films, a boutique film and commercial production company with a focus on prestige documentary, both features and series. Leggett began his producing career at NBC / Universal Sports. Among his most recent documentaries is Ask Dr. Ruth, about sex therapist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Ruth Westheimer, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.
Ek Hazarachi Note is a 2014 Varhadi and Marathi-language Indian film directed by Shrihari Sathe It stars Usha Naik, Sandeep Pathak and Shrikant Yadav The film was released on 9 May 2014 to positive reviews, and won the Silver Peacock - Best Feature Film at the 45th International Film Festival of India.
Srinivas Sunderrajan or Vaas is an Indian musician and an independent filmmaker based in Mumbai, widely known for his films - The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project, and Greater Elephant. He is the co-founder of a DIY production house Enter Guerrilla Films, and has directed the third season of The Dewarists. He is currently the bass player for Mumbai’s hardcore band, Scribe.
Julie Goldman is a film producer and executive producer. She founded Motto Pictures in 2009. She is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer and executive producer of documentary feature films and series.
Usha Naik is an Indian actress who works in Marathi films. She started her career as a background dancer in films.
The 45th International Film Festival of India was held on 20 to 30 November 2014 in Goa. China is the focus country for the festival.
Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti is an Indian film cinematographer, turned director, screenwriter, editor and producer known for his works in Hindi, Telugu, and Marathi cinema. In 1999, Reddy made his foray into cinema as assistant director of photography under Ajayan Vincent with Telugu films such as Raja Kumarudu, and Yamajathakudu.
Sócrates is a 2018 Brazilian drama film directed by Alexandre Moratto and starring Christian Malheiros—both in their feature film debuts. The film traces the story of Sócrates, a black 15-year-old teenager from Santos, in the coast of São Paulo, as he has to overcome extreme poverty, the death of his mother, and homophobia.
Santosh Ram is an Indian writer, director and producer. He is widely known for his short films Vartul (2009), Galli (2015) and Prashna (2020), which have been awarded and screened at various film festivals around the world. His debut short film Vartul which was screened at over 56 film festivals, winning thirteen awards. Prashna (Question) 2020 was shortlisted for Filmfare Short Film Awards 2020. Santosh Ram Won The Iris Award for Special Mention( Writing ) for Prashna at UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival 2021 in Florence, Italy.
No Land's Man is a 2021 American-Bangladeshi-Indian drama film directed and written by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. The film set on a journey of a South Asian man which becomes complicated when he meets an Australian woman in America. The plot of the film deals with the fascism and the identity crisis. It stars including Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Eisha Chopra, Tahsan Rahman Khan and others. The film, a joint production of United States, India, Australia and Bangladesh is produced by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Shrihari Sathe, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anjan Chowdhury, Faridur Reza Sagar and Nusrat Imrose Tisha. A.R. Rahman also joins the film as an executive producer and music composer..
