Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday introduced that Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese and Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo might be honored with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at this yr’s International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The 52nd version of the movie competition might be held in Goa from November 20 to twenty-eight.
While Szabo is finest recognized for his masterpieces such because the 1966 Father and the 1981 movie Mephisto, Scorsese is among the main figures of the New Hollywood period, broadly thought to be one of many best and most influential administrators in movie historical past. goes.
The minister additionally introduced that for the primary time, IFFI has invited main OTT gamers to take part within the competition. Netflix, Amazon Prime, ZEE5, Voot and Sony Liv will take part within the movie competition by way of particular masterclasses, content material launches and previews, curated movie package deal screenings and plenty of extra on-ground and digital occasions.
Netflix will set up a 3-day digital masterclass by the famend Paris-based faculty of picture and humanities, the Gobelins School l’Image. The competition will see the India premiere of Jane Campion’s Netflix movie The Power of the Dog and a particular screening of Kartik Aaryan’s Dhamaka.
SonyLiv is organizing a masterclass by Scam-1992 screenwriters – Sumit Purohit and Sourav Dey, whereas Zee5 specifically ready Breakpoint – collection on Tennis Stars Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi for IFFI by Nitesh Tiwari and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari is of.
Thakur mentioned that this yr IFFI will present a platform to younger budding expertise from throughout India to attach with mainstream cinema filmmakers and the trade. Seventy-five inventive minds (below 35) might be invited to work together with trade leaders and take part in masterclasses on the competition. A contest might be held to pick 75 candidates and the final date for submission of functions for a similar is 30 October.
The Minister additionally introduced that for the primary time movies from 5 BRICS nations might be screened by way of the BRICS Film Festival in affiliation with IFFI. Five nations – Brazil, Russia, South Africa, China and India – are additionally the main focus nations of the 52nd IFFI.
The opening movie of this version of IFFI might be The King of the World directed by Carlos Saura. Around 30 titles have been shortlisted for screening on the 52nd IFFI from main worldwide movie festivals within the Festival Kaleidoscope and World Panorama sections.
The competition will even pay tribute to famend actor Dilip Kumar, famend filmmaker Sumitra Bhave, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Sanchari Vijay, Surekha Sikri, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bertrand Tavenier, Christopher Plummer and Jean-Claude Carrier.
The retrospective phase of the competition will function famend Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, Russian filmmaker and stage director Andrei Konchalovsky and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner. Rajinikanth.
The competition will even pay a particular tribute to Sean Connery, the primary actor to painting the fictional British spy James Bond on the large display screen.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
