![]() |
|
Building Film Culture - Promoting Meaningful Cinema |
|||
|
Home | About Us | SAC Journal | Events | Reviews | Interviews | Legends | Subscriptions | A Door to Adoor | Beyond Partition | Feedback | Contact Us |
|||
|
Our Mission To present the many shades of South Asian cinema to the global community, to analyse and comment on it and link it to contemporary society. More >
Image,
Imagination and Creativity ‘Where do you get your ideas? ‘I am often asked. The question does not come from critics because they already know about everything and they have no doubts. It does not come from the so-called intellectuals either because it is not befitting their status to ask such elementary . . . More > Beyond Partition Beyond Partition (2006) reflects South Asian filmmakers’ take on the Partition of India (1947). Shot for over a year, this path-breaking documentary has taken into its ambit, relevant films that emerged not only from India, but also from Pakistan, Bangladesh and the UK. A Lalit Mohan Joshi film, Beyond Partition explores the trauma of Partition and how . . . More > |
GIRISH KASARAVALLI Girish Kasaravalli is one of the contemporary masters of Indian cinema whose work stands at par with Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Adoor Gopalakrishnan. His latest film to win international acclaim is Gulabi Talkies (2008). |
CHANDRAPRAKASH DWIVEDI Chandraprakash Dwivedi, is a Bollywood filmmaker acclaimed for producing the epic TV serial Chanakya in which he also played Chanakya. Dwivedi's acclaimed film Pinjar (2003), is a tale of love during the trauma of Partition. |
Events
Bollywood: The Flipside!
Honouring & Celebrating
Girish Kasaravalli Fri. 9 – Tues. 13 October 2009
Meet the filmmakers and view
Nehru Centre
Watermans
University of Westminster
|
|
LEGENDS |
A DOOR TO ADOOR |
||
|
The only journal that
explores cinema from South Asia. More > |
The veteran Indian actor Amrish Puri, who has died suddenly aged 72, was one of the most versatile actors of popular Indian cinema. He achieved stardom playing the villain, but his stature as an actor went beyond Bollywood. He also appeared in Gandhi and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. More > |
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Our Sponsors
|
|
|
Home | About Us | SAC Journal | Events | Reviews | Interviews | Legends | Subscriptions | A Door to Adoor | Beyond Partition | Feedback | Contact Us |
|
Copyright © 2009 South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF). All rights reserved. | Web Design: KSP Graphics mail@kspgraphics.co.uk T : 020 8427 9959 |