Premendra Mazumder
Premendra Mazumder | |
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Occupation | film -author, -curator, -society-activist, and -festival-consultant. |
Years active | 1977 – present |
Premendra Mazumder is a film -critic, -author, -curator, -consultant, -society-activist, -festival-organizer, and -festival-consultant. He has participated in several round-table discussions, conducted workshops, delivered lectures, and presented papers on various topics at national and international conferences.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
At the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival in 2015, he spoke on the 'Politics of Film and Social Dynamics' and on 'Trends in South Asian Independent Cinema' [9][10]
He has conducted film workshops in Kabul, Afghanistan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 2019[11]
He worked for the International Critics' Week Cannes (since 2006),[12] Cairo International Film Critics Week [13] (since its inception) and several other film festivals as consultant and advisor.[14][15]
He presented the Celebration Ceremony of 100 Years of Indian Cinema in Croatia (May 2013).[16]
He has inaugurated various film societies,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade.[24] Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India.[25][26] The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.[27][28]
Writings on cinema[]
Premendra Mazumder's thoughts on cinema have been published in a variety of serious Indian film magazines; daily newspapers; and film journals - Screen, , and DNA (Mumbai),[29] Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff, , , and (Kolkata), (Bangalore),.[30] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif (Paris),[31] Subversive [32][33] Cinema (Portugal), (Cairo), Cinesith (Colombo), 16mm (Dhaka), and Deepwani (Port Blair). He is also the Indian correspondent of the Cannes Critics Week.
- Editorial Board - Dictionnaire du cinéma asiatique [34] published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions [35]
- Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta[36]
- Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' [37] (2010)
- Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema' (2016)
- Co-author - Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (chapter titled, 'Music in Mainstream Indian Cinema') [38][39]
- Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? [40]
- Author - Folk Songs of Bengal [41]
Publications[]
He writes essays, short stories, and plays. His published books are:
- Prekshapat (Collection of Essays, 1984)
- Hundred Years of Indian Cinema (1996)
- Samay Ashamayer Natak (Collection of Plays, 2005)
- Victoriar Pori Ebong Onyanya Galpo (Anthology of Short Stories, 2020) ISBN 978-93-81686-78-2
As a playwright he has five major plays to his credit.
Offices hold[]
- Vice President - Federation of Film Societies of India[42]
- General Secretary - , India Chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics[43][44][45]
- Secretary - Asia Pacific, International Federation of Film Societies (IFFS)[46][47]
- Program Director [48]
- Festival Coordinator [49]
- Chairman [50]
- Advisor Nepal International Film Festival[51]
- Editor [52]
- Chairman
Jury member (incomplete)[]
- (India, 2004)
- Mumbai International Film Festival[53] (MAMI, Mumbai, India 2005)[54][55]
- [56] (MIFF; 2006)
- Kara Film Festival[57] (Karachi, 2006)
- Hyderabad International Film Festival (India, 2008)
- (Egypt, 2008)
- [58] (New Delhi, 2010)
- Short & Documentary Film Festival Hyderabad (2010)
- Shaken's Stars [59](Kazakhstan, 2012)
- Abu Dhabi Film Festival UAE[60] (Abu Dhabi, 2012)
- [61] (Portugal, 2013)
- Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival[62][63]
- [64][65] (Canada, 2016)
- Cairo International Film Festival (Cairo, Egypt 2016)
- SiGNS Film Festival (Cochi, India, 2016)
- (Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2017)
- Busan International Film Festival (Bushan, South Korea, 2017)
- Bengaluru International Film Festival (Bangalore, India, 2018)
- (Ismailia, Egypt, 2018)
- (Slemania, Kurdistan, Iraq, 2018)
- (Mumbai, India, 2018)
- Nepal International Film Festival (Kathmandu, 2019)
- International Film Festival of Kerala (Trivandrum, India, 2019)
- (Bhubaneshwar, India, 2020)[66]
- (Aurangabad, India, 2020)[67]
- (Thrissur, India, 2020)
- (Ottawa, Canada, 2021)[68]
- (Siliguri, India, 2021)[69]
- (Auroville, Pondicherry, 20222)[70]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Creating art film audience important than making movies: Film". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 2 November 2019.
- ^ "As-Giff".
- ^ "Festivals bring short films back in limelight - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
- ^ Nair, Aparna (10 December 2019). "IFFK 2019: The grammar of good cinema". The Hindu.
- ^ "Global campaign to restore Satyajit, Ritwik, Mrinal's ancestral homes in Bangladesh | Kolkata News - Times of India".
- ^ "Jaya's Bini Sutoy selected at International Film Festival of Kerala". 13 October 2019.
- ^ "Premendra Mazumder – Dhaka Translation Fest".
- ^ "Festivals help promoting film as an art form: Experts at GIFF". 2 November 2019.
- ^ "KiMFF receives warm welcome". ekantipur.com.
- ^ "Panel Discussion – Trends in South Asian Independent Cinema". kimff.org.
- ^ "Resume of Premendra Nath Mazumder 2".
- ^ http://www.semainedelacritique.com/images/DOSSIER_DE_PRESSE_version_ang.pdf
- ^ "Cairo International Film Critics Week". cairofilmcriticsweek.com.
- ^ "Curtain lifts on 4th Sylhet Film Festival".
- ^ "Team – Caleidoscope Indian Film Festival Boston".
- ^ http://www.indija.hr/spaw2/uploads/files/100%20godina%20indiskog%20filma%20knjizica%20KB%20web-2.pdf
- ^ ":: Campus Film Society ::". kiit.ac.in.
- ^ Desk, Odisha Sun Times Editorial (5 January 2015). "Campus film society inaugurated at KIIT varsity in Odisha capital". odishasuntimes.com.
- ^ "InstitutionsContents". visva-bharati.ac.in.
- ^ Trade, TI. "The Assam Tribune Online". assamtribune.com.
- ^ "Assam international film festival kicks off in Jorhat college - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
- ^ http://ffsifilmculture.blogspot.in/2010_12_01_archive.html%7Ctitle=FFSI Film Culture
- ^ "Bengali film fest to screen films from India, Bangladesh - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
- ^ "Cine Club celebrates 50 golden years". telegraphindia.com.
- ^ "Bangla filmmaker for same-day release - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
- ^ Trade, TI. "The Assam Tribune Online". assamtribune.com.
- ^ "Fresh take on silver screen tryst - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
- ^ "Farooki to present 'Ant Story' at FFSI International Film Festival". clickittefaq.com.
- ^ "'Tagore was inescapable' - Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dnaindia.com. 11 August 2006.
- ^ http://www.deepfocusonline.com/about/team/
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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- ^ "Dictionnaire du cinéma asiatique".
- ^ "Nouveau Monde éditions".
- ^ "Federation of Film Societies of India". ffsiarchive.blogspot.in.
- ^ "Indian Film Culture 15th Edition August 2010.pdf". google.com.
- ^ Gokulsing, K. Moti; Dissanayake, Wimal (17 April 2013). Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. Routledge. ISBN 9781136772917 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (Hardback) - Routledge". routledge.com.
- ^ Development, Chits. "FILM SOCIETY MOVEMENT ? A SUCCESS OR FAILURE ? Ebook by Premendra Mazumder". ideaindia.com.
- ^ Mazumder, Premendra (11 August 2011). "FOLK SONGS OF BENGAL". IDEAINDIA.COM – via Amazon.
- ^ "FFSI demand restoration of ancestral homes of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen". February 2020.
- ^ https://fipresci-india.org/
- ^ "Top 10 Indian films in 2019 according to critics". 11 January 2020.
- ^ "I lost my heart to cinema and have since been devoted to it, says Aruna Vasudev, on being felicitated at BIFFES".
- ^ "IFFS - International Federation of Film Societies". ficc.info.
- ^ "Film societies have worked hard to bring cinema to the masses, says Premendra Mazumder, vice-chairman of the Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI)". 30 September 2020.
- ^ http://www.asianfilmfestival.in/
- ^ https://sasff.in/contact/
- ^ https://event.kalingatv.com/
- ^ "Premendra Mazumder – Nepal International Film Festival".
- ^ https://fipresci-india.org/e-cine-india/
- ^ "Kinema : : A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media".
- ^ https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/kinema/article/view/1113/1316
- ^ https://miff.in/miff2006-jury/
- ^ "MIFF'2006 Jury".
- ^ "iPhone7". karafilmfest.com.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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- ^ http://www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae/en/Press/press-releases/2012/2012-10-19-ADFF-Unveils-Winners-of-2012-Black-Pearl-FIPRESCI-and-NETPAC-Awards%7Ctitle=ADFF Unveils Winners of 2012 Black Pearl, FIPRESCI and NETPAC Awards
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "KIMFF kicks off with 'unbroken spirit' - The Himalayan Times". thehimalayantimes.com. 11 December 2015.
- ^ "KIMFF is back with 'unbroken spirit'". myrepublica.com.
- ^ "Programming". festivalregard.com.
- ^ "Festival Regard 2016: Rencontre avec David Uloth". cinefilic.com.
- ^ "Kalinga Global Film Festival concludes at KIIT". 24 January 2020.
- ^ http://www.aifilmfest.in/jury-indian-film-competition/
- ^ https://oiffa.com/
- ^ https://siliguricinesociety.com/ssdff-2021-jury-panel/
- ^ https://filmfestival.auroville.org/jury-for-auroville-films/
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