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at Sampradaya Vedika, 4.30 pm Why are the Arts integral to a Child's Development? A peep into the Wonderous World of Cinema Workshops Open Forum Children's Film Society, India Press Meet Even after all the trouble he faced in life, he never gave up his dream to become a composer. It also portrays the intensity of a mother's love. He wondered how Indian filmmakers came up with such intense movies. The actress of the movie, Miao Miao, said that she feels like home in India. - Sneha Nemali
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Children's Film Society, India
ndian Cinema is wonderful. When as a kid i
had watched three Indian movies they left Ia deep impact on me. Fifty-six years have
passed since then, but the images and the
sounds reverberate in my mind," Xiao Guiyun
who is Chairman of the China Film Association
said here today.
Xiao is heading the 17 - member Chinese
delegation to the 17th International
Children’s Film Festival which has a special
Focus on Chinese films.
As if to prove his point, Xiao enthusiastically
rendered a few lines from the song "awaara
hoon" from the film ‘Aawara’ by Raj Kapoor.
The Indian showman had become popular in
all countries of Eastern Europe and the
erstwhile Soviet Union when he visited those
countries in the late forties.
He wondered how Indian filmmakers came
up with such intense movies.
Nostalgia of Indian cinema remains fresh in the Chinese mind
A peep into the Wonderous World of Cinema
Hyderabad www.cfsindia.org Issue: 3 November 16, 2011
Gajju’sProgramme today
Having fun always comes with responsibility,
but the pleasure is greater when enjoyment
and learning come in a unique combination.
The workshops at the Festival are really
teaching us so much and though I have been
here before, I am still learning new things.
Five workshops have begun at different
venues in Shilparamam which will go on till 19
November. You can still register by calling
Satish at 9703160004.
Film Making
Dining Hall, 2.30-5.30 pm
Script Writing
Art Gallery, 2.30-4.30 pm & 4.30-6.30 pm
Film Appreciation
Shilparamam Garden, 2.30-4.30 pm
Animation
Shilpakala Vedika basement, 4.30-6.30pm
Puppet Making
Art Gallery, 2.30-4.30 pm & 4.30-6.30pm
at Media Centre, Shilpakala Vedika, 11.00 am
Basi Reddy, Director of ‘Seven Days in Slow
Motion’ in Hindi and Nag Gottab, Director of
‘Sikharam’ in Telugu
at Sampradaya Vedika, 4.30 pm
Why are the Arts integral to a Child's
Development?
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Press Meet
Open Forum
Speaking after screening of the film ‘The Star
and the sea’ directed by him and Li Qiankuan,
Xiao said "India has the largest film industry in
the world. Even as Hollywood is ruling cinema
the world over, India still manages to find its
place. We have much to learn from Indian
Cinema. I am planning to send a delegation
which can come to India and learn about film
making and try it out in the Chinese film
industry."
However, he added that "the Chinese Film
Industry is also making a rapid progress.
Children cinema has been developing."
"The Star and the Sea" had its Indian debut at
the Festival. The directors accompanied by the
actress of the film said six other children’s
films are to be screened and there are six
students from China participating in this
festival, some as a child jury.
Talking about their film, the directors said that
this is the first children’s film among the fifty
films they have made together. Li Qiankuan
said,"the movie is a real life story of the
greatest Chinese composer Xian Xinghai when
he was a kid.
Even after all the trouble he faced in life, he
never gave up his dream to become a
composer. It also portrays the intensity of a
mother's love.
It is like a learning experience for children that
no matter how difficult life is, one should
never give up and should have the courage to
overcome the hard times. Life has to be faced
with courage and fortitude.
The directors are not only partners in
filmmaking but also partners in real life. They
met at the Beijing Film Academy and films
brought them together.
The actress of the movie, Miao Miao, said that
she feels like home in India.
- Sneha Nemali
Children's Film Society, India
Screening Schedule
Date Time Name of Film Mins Age
16th 9:30 am Stanley Ka Dabba (Stanley’s Tiffin Box) IC 95 10+
12:00 pm Gorilla CW 10 10+
Gerald’s Last day CW 12 6+
Babioles CW 5 6+
Josette Und Ihr Papa (Josette and her daddy) CW 8 10+
Kuchao (A Gum Boy) CW 4 6+
Kosminen Kulkuri (The Cosmic Avenger) CW 10 6+
Leitmotif CW 8 6+
2:30 pm Woh (That Fellow) IC 82 10+
Wonder Land, Rock Heights, Shilparamam
Date Time Name of Film Mins Age
16th 9:30 am L’Illusionniste (How to Train your Dragon) CW 98 10+
11:30 am Lápis-de-cor (Colored Pencils) SC 16 6+
Ekti Kaktaliyo Galpo (A Coincidental Tale) SC 10 10+
Neuneinhalbs Abschied (Nineandahalf’s Goodbye) SC 14 10+
Adventures of Owen SC 14 10+
The Ball SC 11 10+
Bottle SC 6 6+
2:30 pm Un Cargo Pour L’Afrique (Cargo for Africa) CW 90 10+
Dream Land, Rock Heights, Shilparamam
CI-Competition International IC-India Competition SC-Shorts Competition LD-Little Director CW-Children's World IFC-In Focus China
Date Time Name of Film Mins Age
16th 9:30 am Den Kaempestore Bjorn (The Great Bear) CI 73 6+
11:30 am Wintertochter (Winter’s Daughter) CI 92 13+
2:30 pm Het Geheim (The Magicians) CI 90 10+
Magic Land, Rock Heights, Shilparamam
What I recommend for today…..and why
The Great Bear
Winter’s Daughter
Director: Esben
Toft Jacobsen |
Denmark / 2010 /
Col. / 73 mins
Jonathan’s kid sister Sophie whom he does
not like very much is kidnapped by a giant
bear. It is now that he realizes he must rescue
her.
Director: Johannes Schmid | Germany, Poland
/ 2010 / Col. / 92 mins
Eleven year old
Kattaka learns he
has a biological
f a t h e r w h o s e
identity was kept secret from him all these
years. He must now search for this father, a
Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored
in Gdansk, and she sets out along with her
friend Knäcke and the ageing Lena.
Director: Joram Lürsen | Netherlands / 2010 /
Col. / 90 mins
Young Sylvie vanishes during a magical
disappearing trick being performed by her
friend, eight-
year-old Ben
Stikker and his
father, Now Ben
must find Sylvie
and save his
father who is being blamed.
The Magicians
Stanley Ka Dabba
Stanley’s Tiffin Box
Director: Amole Gupte | India / 2011 / Col. / 95
mins
Stanley, a popular fourth grader fails to turn
up in school when he is warned by his Hindi
teacher Khadoos for not bringing his lunch
box or ‘dabba’. The reason is revealed only
when one day he brings a lunch box for
Khadoos.
Children's Film Society, India
Gorilla
Gerald’s Last Day
Babioles
Josette and Her Daddy
A Gum Boy
The Cosmic Avenger
Director: Hanna Bergholm | Finland / 2009 /
Col. / 10 mins
A l l i i s a s ruf fy
tomboy who wants
to play with her
sister and her sister’s
best friend but the
big girls prefer to play with their dolls. Alli does
everything she can to join the girls.
Director: Justin and Shel Rasch | USA / 2009 /
Col. / 12 mins
Gerald the dog is
s c h e d u l e d f o r
termination at the
Dog Pound at five
today, unless he can
fine someone to take
him home. But can he?
Director: Mathieu Auvray | France / 2010 / Col.
/ 5 mins
Lost in a garbage
dump and looking
for some human
attention, Little
Rabbit tr ies to
reach the city with his new mate Little Indian.
Director: Izabela Plucinska | Germany / 2010 /
Col. / 8 mins
Josette wants to play,
but daddy has to get
ready for work. So he
says ‘Try to find me’
but she cannot find
him. Where is Papa?
Director: Masaki Okuda | Japan / 2010 / Col. / 4
mins
Kuchao prefers to
chew gums when
other kids release
balloons into the air,
as this takes him into
the world of airplanes and rockets.
Director: Mariko Harkonen & Ismo Virtanen |
Finland / 2010 / Col. / 10 mins
Robot mailmen To and
X-Moo who deliver mail
around the universe
look into a parcel their
shuttle bumps into. It is only an adorable
teddy, but they have broken rules.
Director: Jeanette Nørgaard, Mette Ilene
Holmriis, Marie Jørgensen, Marie Thorhauge |
Denmark / 2009 / Col. / 8 mins
T h e l a s t l o n e l y
member of a jazz
band lives through his
music and the daily
visits of a white cat.
One day he is overwhelmed by nostalgia and
gets a crazy idea …
Director: Buddhadeb Dasgupta | India /
2011/ Col. / 82 mins
Forced to stay
with a grumpy
faced Mary aunty
and a lonesome
g r a n d f a t h e r ,
Little Poupe’s life takes a turn with the arrival
of a circus troupe with strange creatures.
Director: Dean Deblois & Chris Sanders | U.S.A
/ 2010 / Col. /98 mins
Hiccup, who lives
on the island of
B e r k w h e r e
fighting dragons
is a way of life, is
not taken seriously. But when he encounters
an injured dragon, he carves a new future of
the entire tribe.
Director: Alice Gomes | Brazil / 2010 / Col. / 16
mins
Cláudio loves
to draw and
thinks drawing
a c o l o u r e d
portrait of his
dead father will make him come back home.
He gets three coloured pencils, but his mother
allows him to use only one each day.
Director: Tathagata Singha | India / 2009 / Col.
/ 10 mins
Babai’s dislike
for studying
m a k e s h i s
mother angry.
One day his old
neighbour gifts him a magic marble that can
even summon the King of Fish.
Leitmotif
That Fellow
How to Train Your Dragon
Colored Pencils
A Coincidental Tale
Nineandahalf’s Goodbye
Adventures of Owen
The Ball
Bottle
A Cargo to Africa
Director: Halina Dyrschka | Germany / 2010 /
Col. / 14 mins
Piet is six
and wants a
l i t t l e
b r o t h e r ,
but gets a
hamster instead. Can ten year old Tom explain
this to her?
Director: David Cadiz | Canada / 2010 / Col. /
14 mins
Y o u n g O w e n
escapes a pestering
sister, demanding
m o t h e r, d e a d l y
games of dodge ball
and the pain of an unrequited crush by
entering the fantastic animated world of
Spaceman X, an
intrepid galactic traveller whose adventures
Owen has drafted in his sketchbook.
Director: Katja Roberts | United Kingdom /
2010 / Col. / 11 mins
L o n e l y
m i s f i t
A m y
Jones has
noticed a
new boy in h e r
street and begins to reach out to him.
Director: Kirsten Lepore | U.S.A / 2010 / Col. / 6
mins
A n u n l i k e l y
f r i e n d s h i p
d e v e l o p s
between a clump
of sand and a pile
o f s n o w !
Separated by the sea, the duo communicates
love through a bottle.
Director: Roger Cantin | Canada / 2009 / Col. /
90 mins
Norbert is
i n
Canada
b u t
wants to go
b a c k t o Afric
a where he worked for twenty years. But he
must find a place for his pet monkey Trotsky
before he can go.
Children's Film Society, India
Edited by B.B. Nagpal on behalf of the Children’s Film Society, India, Films Division Complex, 24, Dr.G.D. Marg, Mumbai-400 026.
Design Seshu Kumar MVV, Satya T, Guru J
Photos Kotnis Murali Krishna, Chillam Charla Suresh Kumar, D.S. Chakravarthi, D. Yuva Raj
Designed & Produced by Efforts, 11-6-872, Red Hills, Lakdikapul, Hyderabad-500 004. www.efforts.co.in
Festival Office CFSI, Camp: Shilparamam, Madhapur, Hyderabad.
Our Young and
Energetic JuryApart from the four adult juries which are
judging the films in various Competitive
sections, there are separate juries of children
for the International Competition, the Indian
Competition, and for the Short films
competition. There is no separate children's
jury for Little Directors. After all, how can we
judge children who are our own age?
Akshay Rajpurohit 11, Rajasthan
Ashwathy Jai Kumar 15, Andaman and
Nicobar Island
Muvva 11, Hyderabad
Samuela Nematchova 15, Chicago
Ma Yue Xin 12, China
Kajal Bharti 12, Jammu
Narsang Nayak 12, Chhatisgarh
Nishant Banga 14, Delhi
Ben 14, Chicago
Kuhoo Mishra 14, Madhya Pradesh
Sang Dan Yu (aka Michael) 12, China
Anushka Joshi 15, Gujarat
Nikhil 15, Hyderabad
Kiran Maye 13, Hyderabad
Praniti Goturi 14, Hyderabad
International
India
Shorts
As I had promised, children are out to have a
lot of fun while in Hyderabad. Not only are
they getting to see the best of world cinema
for children, but also learn about filmmaking.
Five different workshops began as part of the
Festival: filmmaking, film appreciation, script
writing, puppet making and animation.
The workshops which will continue till 19
November have a minimum strength of
fifteen each.
Interestingly, film making proved to be the
favourite for most of the child delegates. Many
Children keen to learn filmmakingchildren were seen enrolling for this
workshop. The passion for filmmaking has
clearly taken deep roots among the young in
the country.
It was fascinating to see the enthusiasm of the
children, and their sense of participation was
infectious. It is clear that my little friend from
all over India have been charged with energy
on seeing my love for cinema, and have
already started working towards achieving
their goals.
-Deepti Thakur & Smrati Thakur
Well made children’s films can be
commercially viable: Khosa
Rajan Khosa, director of ‘Gattu’ which opened
the 17th ICFF, feels that children’s films can
also be commercially viable if they are made
with sensibility and a good script.
Addressing the first press conference of the
Festival at the Media Centre in Shilpakala
Vedika, he said that he was hoping to
commercially release the film.
Mr Rajiv Dwivedi, who represented the
Children’s Film Society, India, which has
produced the film, said the Society would
definitely go in for a commercial release of the
film.
Khosa said the film was shot on actual
locations in Roorkee where one can always
see kites all over the sky. He said most of the
children who acted in the film were from a
local school and he had trained them for two
months before taking them in his film.
Asked if he had faced any problems with
children, he said that he depended on the
children fully.
He would ask the main actor Mohammed
Samad to enact the scene on his own and
improvise wherever necessary, and would
give instructions to change only if he was not
impressed with the improvised delivery by the
actor.
Interestingly, the film was completed on 11
November this year (11.11.11).
Rajan Khosa came into the limelight with his
feature film ‘Dance Of The Wind’, which
premiered at Venice and won at Rotterdam,
Chicago, London, Nantes and other film
festivals.
He has made many shorts which include
‘Wisdom Tree’ and ‘Flower Girl’.
An alumnus of Royal College of Arts, London,
FTII, and NID, Ahmedabad, he is a voting
member of BAFTA.
The skies are full of kites but one kite, Kali
dominates. Gattu is a young street urchin who
sets out to find out how the kite Kali is always
winning over other kites, and who flies it.
Enthusiastic Children outside venues of Workshops