New York Indian Film Festival - Presented by the Indo-American Arts Council, Inc. - Celebrates alternative, independent cinema from the global South Asian community. The festival is dedicated to providing filmmakers, actors,and industry professionals a platform to showcase their work, as well as creating an environment where filmmakers may exchange ideas with one another, and interact with discerning and diverse audiences, journalists, and affinicados.
Our selection over the last 11 years has featured a wide array of films that included the work of veteran as well as emerging South Asian Filmmakers. The Festival has presented films with a variety of Lengths and Formats - Shorts, Documentary, Feature, Animation and Cellphone Cam
New York Indian Film Festival (formerly known as MIAAC) is North America's largest and most prestigious film festival - Featuring cinema from the Indian Subcontinent, and South Asian diaspora. The Festival is attended by over 10,000 film lovers and has attracted unprecedented media attention.
Many of our past festival selections have subsequently won awards or been featured at, the Academy Awards (Oscars), British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA), Golden Globes, Screen Actor's Guild, Tribeca Film Festival, IFP Market, Mumbai International Film Festival, Breakthrough Human Rights Film Festival, MOMA Directors' Fortnight series and others.
Events Include: Premiere Screenings, All day industry panels organized by IFP, NYWIFT, SAMMA, SAAVN, William Morris, TiE, MIAAC; nightly networking parties, post-screening discussions, red carpet galas, Directorial debuts, 8 achievement awards presented at the Award Ceremony, industry participation, media attention, outreach events, and packed audiences are the hallmark of the New York Indian Film Festival.
Over the previous eleven years, our selection has showcased a wide range of South Asian film-makers from veterans such as Mira Nair, Mani Ratnam, Aparna Sen, Deepa Mehta, Gurinder Chadha, Nagesh Kukunoor, Ketan Mehta, Shyam Benegal
To relatively new voices: Ajay Naidu, Sanjoy Nag, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, Samrat Chakrabarti, Shonali Bose, Nisha Ganatra, Smriti Mundhra, Ali Kazimi, Ashwin Kumar , Manu Rewal and more.
We Invite for submissions films that feature the work of South Asian artists, or have a South Asian subject matter, or inspiration.
Submit your films!
Where: Indo-American Arts Council
517 East 87th Street Suite 1B
New York, NY, United States 10128
Date: May 23 2012 to May 27 2012
Time: 9:00 am
Admittance: Open
Website: http://www.iaac.us/NYIFF2012/index.htm
Email: nyindianfilmfest@gmail.com
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Get your tickets now! NYIFF, the longest-running, most prestigious Indian film festival in the country, announces its 2012 line-up of films, including the opening night film, centerpiece film, and sidebar festival.
Opening Night Film – Bedabrata Pain’s CHITTAGONG: Set in the turbulence of the 1930s British India, Chittagong is a true story of a 14-year-old boy, Jhunku, and of his journey to find where he belongs. For the first time in Indian history, the British army is defeated by a ragtag army of schoolboys and their teacher, Masterda. Called a traitor by his peers, and let down by a man he trusts, Jhunku impulsively joins the movement. As his world is turned upside down, Jhunku is forced to confront his self-doubts. As the leaders of the movement are progressively caught or killed, Jhunku battles against seemingly insurmountable odds to win a victory of his own. The film is a brilliant, poignant action-drama, made more so by the fact that it is true. Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Barry John and Delzad Hiwale.
Centerpiece Film – Tribute to the Late Great Dev Anand through HUM DONO RANGEEN: Hum Dono Rangeen was restored and colorized using Legend Film's proprietary colorization process. The process has consistently been lauded as the highest quality color conversion technology in the world and has been used extensively on Hollywood feature films over the past 10 years. Hum Dono Rangeen was one of the latest colorization projects using the technology and it is considered light years ahead of Mugal e Azam in the quality of its color, artistry and overall design. The colorization of Hum Dono Rangeen was executed by Jagan Mohan at Goldstone Technologies, a technology licensee of Legend Films under the collaborative eye of Legend Films engineers and technicians. It lives as the finest example of Bollywood colorization that exists today.
Sidebar Festival – Shyam Benegal Retrospective followed by a post-screening discussion with director: Mamoo (1994), Sardari Begum (1996), and Zubeidaa (2001) - the first such programming of Benegal's trilogy based on scripts by renowned critic, journalist, and filmmaker Khalid Mohamed. All three films are Mohamed's personal stories about his mother, grandmother, aunt, and grandaunt. Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934, Hyderabad) is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films, Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977), he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India. He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. On 8 August 2007, Benegal was awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2005. He has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times.