Premendra Mazumder | |
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Occupation(s) | 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, Rupwani, and DNA (Mumbai),[29] Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff, College Street, Chitrabhavna, and Chitralipi (Kolkata), Deep Focus (Bangalore),.[30] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif (Paris),[31] Subversive [32][33] Cinema (Portugal), Film Realm (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 - Fipresci-India, 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 Third Eye Asian Film Festival[48]
- Festival Coordinator South Asian Short Film Festival[49]
- Chairman Kalinga Global Film Festival[50]
- Advisor Nepal International Film Festival[51]
- Editor ECineIndia[52]
- Chairman Bengal International Short Film Festival
- Festival Director Thrissur International Film Festival[53]
Jury member (incomplete)
- Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition (India, 2004)
- Mumbai International Film Festival[54] (MAMI, Mumbai, India 2005)[55][56]
- Mumbai International Film Festival for Shorts Documentaries & Animations[57] (MIFF; 2006)
- Kara Film Festival[58] (Karachi, 2006)
- Hyderabad International Film Festival (India, 2008)
- Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films (Egypt, 2008)
- Jeevika Asian Livelihood Documentary Competition[59] (New Delhi, 2010)
- Short & Documentary Film Festival Hyderabad (2010)
- Shaken's Stars International Film Festival Almaty[60](Kazakhstan, 2012)
- Abu Dhabi Film Festival UAE[61] (Abu Dhabi, 2012)
- Evora International Film Festival for Shorts & Documentaries FIKE[62] (Portugal, 2013)
- Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival[63][64]
- Regard: Saguenay International Short Film Festival[65][66] (Canada, 2016)
- Cairo International Film Festival (Cairo, Egypt 2016)
- SiGNS Film Festival (Cochi, India, 2016)
- Jaffna International Cinema Festival (Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2017)
- Busan International Film Festival (Bushan, South Korea, 2017)
- Bengaluru International Film Festival (Bangalore, India, 2018)
- Ismailia International Film Festival (Ismailia, Egypt, 2018)
- Slemani International Film Festival (Slemania, Kurdistan, Iraq, 2018)
- Third Eye Asian Film Festival (Mumbai, India, 2018)
- Nepal International Film Festival (Kathmandu, 2019)
- International Film Festival of Kerala (Trivandrum, India, 2019)
- Kalinga Global Film Festival (Bhubaneshwar, India, 2020)[67]
- Aurangabad International Film Festival (Aurangabad, India, 2020)[68]
- International Film Festival of Thrissur (Thrissur, India, 2020)
- Ottawa Indian Film Festival (Ottawa, Canada, 2021)[69]
- Siliguri International Short Film Festival (Siliguri, India, 2021)[70]
- Auroville Film Festival (Auroville, Pondicherry, 20222)[71]
External links
References
- ↑ "Creating art film audience important than making movies: Film". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 2 November 2019.
- ↑ "As-Giff". The Week.
- ↑ "Festivals bring short films back in limelight - Times of India". indiatimes.com. 20 July 2015.
- ↑ 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". The Times of India. February 2020.
- ↑ "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".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Cairo International Film Critics Week". cairofilmcriticsweek.com.
- ↑ "Curtain lifts on 4th Sylhet Film Festival".
- ↑ "Team – Caleidoscope Indian Film Festival Boston".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ ":: 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. 7 January 2014.
- ↑ "Cine Club celebrates 50 golden years". telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015.
- ↑ "Bangla filmmaker for same-day release - Times of India". indiatimes.com. 4 August 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Team | Deep Focus Cinema Magazine". Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "SUBVERSIVEFILMFESTIVAL". subversivefestival.com.
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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. 22 May 2018.
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ "Contact".
- ↑ https://event.kalingatv.com/
- ↑ "Premendra Mazumder – Nepal International Film Festival". 19 January 2020.
- ↑ "E-CineIndia – FIPRESCI-India".
- ↑ https://www.ifft.in/
- ↑ "Kinema : : A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media".
- ↑ Syed, Siraj (2005). "Mumbai (Bombay) 2005". Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media. doi:10.15353/kinema.vi.1113.
- ↑ "MIFF'2006 JuryMumbai International Film Festival | Mumbai International Film Festival".
- ↑ "MIFF'2006 Jury".
- ↑ "iPhone7". karafilmfest.com.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Reviews, opinions-Kyrgyz Cinema".
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "FIKE | 5ª feira, dia 24 | Grande Écran". Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Aurangabad International Film Festival - 2020".
- ↑ https://oiffa.com/
- ↑ "SSDFF 2021 JURY PANEL - Siliguri Cine Society". 16 August 2021.
- ↑ "Jury for Auroville Films | Auroville Film Festival".