SouthAsianCinema

Exploring Cinema for a Global Community

► Home 

► About Us

► SACF

► SAC Journal

► Events

► Reviews

► Interviews

► Legends

► Subscriptions

► A Door to Adoor

► Beyond Partition

► Feedback

► Contact Us

THE BOOK

A DOOR TO ADOOR

For excerpts from
the book please
click on the picture

You will need an
Acrobat Reader to view
this PDF file.

 

 

 

India Now - 60 Years of Indian Independence

3rd SACF Festival

Cinema of Independence

(10 – 15 August 2007)

To mark 60th Anniversary of Indian Independence (1947- 2007), this 3rd thematic SACF Festival at Watermans brings the first ever Cinema of Independence to London. The Festival presents a niche selection of landmark films and documentaries that mirror India's struggle for independence and the trauma India and Pakistan faced at Partition.

Lalit Mohan Joshi, the Director, South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF) says: "Made between 1947 to 2007 by masters like Satyajit Ray and Shyam Benegal, these films are Indian Cinema’s tribute to the struggle for Independence and for  ending the British Raj. Sixty years on, it leaves many questions unanswered and these films address them directly or obliquely."

Click HERE for more

SACF Honours Adoor Gopalakrishnan
with ‘Excellence in Cinema’ Award
 First Retrospective of Adoor’s Films in U.K.

Adoor GopalakrishnanAdoor Gopalakrishnan, India’s foremost filmmaker after Satyajit Ray, was presented a Crystal Pyramid, an Award for Excellence in Cinema, by South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF), a London based organisation that explores the many splendoured cinema of South Asia beyond Bollywood. The Award was presented to the veteran filmmaker Adoor, by the Honourable High Commissioner of India in London, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, at the Nehru Centre in the presence of distinguished guests. It was followed, by an in conversation event between Adoor Gopalakrishnan and film historian and Director SACF Lalit Mohan Joshi. Adoor will also released a book A Door to Adoor edited by Lalit Mohan Joshi and C.S. Venkiteswaran with a foreword by Shyam Benegal. This book is the first publication in English on Adoor Gopalakrishnan and contains rare collection of essays by renowned critics, film academics and filmmakers.

SACF organised a Festival of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s films at Watermans, Brentford, which will be the first ever Retrospective of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s films in U.K.

For SACF events, please see Events Page

home | about us | SACF | SAC Journal | events | reviews | interviews | legends | subscriptions | feedback | contact us

Copyright © 2004 South Asian Cinema Foundation. All rights reserved. Web Design KSP Graphics