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MONTHLY RESULTS FEBRUARY 2022

Category : Animated Film WINNER Know how to love oneself human Directed by GERALDINE Gée France - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Grydscaen: scout eve (Episode 3) Directed by Natsuya Uesugi DuBois United States - Category : Best VFX Artist WINNER Precursor Directed by Marco Castiglione Italy - Category : Debut Filmmaker WINNER Grydscaen: scout eve (Episode 3) Directed by Natsuya Uesugi DuBois United States - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Living Now Directed by Natalia Nasinnik Russian Federation - Category : Documentary Film WINNER The Polar Explorer Directed by Mark Terry Canada - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Living in a postcard Directed by Christian Nicoletta Italy - 2005 Nights and Days Directed by Andrzej...

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The Truth Serum | Screenplay Review

Written by Martin K. Zitter | Reviewed by Sabarno Sinha   In the 70s, a number of artists across the United States and the world spoke out against the Vietnam War, the unbelievable arms race and the proxy wars fought elsewhere between the two superpowers who tried to prove that they had more muscle than the other. Many of these artists such as Bob Marley emphasised on the serene peace that would...

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Nihilism in Post-Modern Cinema

An article by | Debopam Deb Roy After having watched a film, most of us tend to focus on superficial aspects like the content of a film, amount of violence, risky stunts, camera movements, etc. Although these aspects act as the basis of all criticism surrounding a film, there is one more aspect that is generally overlooked by most lovers of cinema. Just like any major project is based on a...

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Free Range | An interview with Lindsei Barros

An interview by | Debopam Deb Roy   A woman visiting a town to look at a house that is up for sale learns a lot more about the place and its people than she thought she would.   RSTMP: Free Range can be identified as the work of an experienced filmmaker as it is extremely intimidating. What, according to you, is the most important quality of a filmmaker? Lindsei: The ability of telling a...

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Akira Kurosawa: Influencer of World Cinema

An article by | Debopam Deb Roy Much before George Lucas made Star Wars or Quentin Tarantino made Pulp Fiction, modern cinema was the subject of constant experimentation in terms of form, style and camerawork. The renowned Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa, envisioned the possibility of appropriating Western ideologies of filmmaking while his contemporaries still stuck to crafting a separate style of their own based on traditional theater, minimalism and quiet introspection...

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A Cyberpunk Chorus

An Article by | Sayantan Mukherjee Mrinal Sen has always been regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of India, even the world. His contributions to cinema remain unparalleled in their documentation of Indian society and his experiments with the form of cinema will continue to inspire generations of film scholars and film makers to take an objective view at film making itself. Sen, inspired by Jean Luc Godard in no...

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