15th
Mumbai Film Festival enthralls on Day Six
Mumbai, October 22, 2013: Festival audiences were treated to a feast of
exciting films on Day 6 of the 15th Mumbai Film Festival presented by
Reliance Entertainment and organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images
(MAMI).
From El Sur directed by Victor Erice, Florian Rey’s Carmen, Yesterday Never Ends directed
by Isabel Coixet and Costa Gavras’ Eden
is West to Charles Chaplin’s The
Floorwalker, Praveen Morchhale’s Barefoot
to Goa and Axelle Ropert’s Miss and
the doctors, Virgin Talkies by
K.R Manoj among others ,the list of movies screened today was illustrious.
At noon, the Indian Popular
Film screened was Baishe Srabon
written and directed by Srijit Mukherji. The cast of this Bengali psychological
thriller consists of Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee and Raima Sen.
A detective struggles to find the killer who leaves verses from Bengali poems
next to his victims. The critically acclaimed film received a boisterous round
of applause from the audience.
Continuing his master class on
3D, Oscar Academy Member and Stereoscopic Department Head of Walt Disney
Animation Studios Mr. Robert Neuman simplified further the complexities of 3D
technology. His talk was followed by the Indian premiere of “The Little Mermaid 3D.”
The open forum panel discussion
of Day 6 was on the much talked about topic of ‘Crowd Culture.’ Speakers Yogesh
Karikurve, co-founder, Catapooolt, filmmaker Sarthak Dasgupta and Pawan Kumar
who directed the crowd-funded film Lucia engaged in a truly revealing
discussion on various facets of crowd
funding and crowd sourcing.
"Crowd sourcing has two important C's in
them. Community and Credibility. India does not have a state funding and that
is where crowd funding comes into place" said Yogesh Karikurve, Co-founder
of Catapooolt.
Director of
the movie Lucia, Mr. Pawan Kumar added to the discussion saying “I realized soon enough that my film Lucia was
not going to get any producer. So, a lot of frustrated blogs and Facebook
status messages helped me get followers who helped me make the movie. For
Lucia, we gave people distribution links as a way of returning the money."
The evening
screening of Canadian film Vic + Flow saw a packed screening, with attendance
by representatives from various consulates and celebrity guests. The screening
was preceded by a soiree, with invited guests in attendance.
Celebrities
like Anant Jog, Ravi Jadhav, Swara Bhaskar, and others were seen attending the
screen of Rege, directed by Abhijeet
Panse.
