April 26 & 27 | Suchitra presents Seminar : 80 years of Kannada Cinema and Felicitation of Shri Shivram

[Anand Varadaraj]

  
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Suchitra Film Society 

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Celebration of 80 years of Kannada Cinema

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Suchitra Cinema & Cultural Academ

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36, 9th Main Road, B.V. Karanth Road, BSK 2nd Stage, Bengaluru-560 070 |  Tel : 080-2671 1785

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Kannada cinema completed 80 years in 2014. It began with Sati Sulochana, the first Kannada talkie, which was released on 3 March 1934. From its difficult days in the beginning, Kannada cinema has now grown to serve a market that sees about 125 feature film releases every year. The climb has been hard but exciting and many real 'heroes' and 'heroines', off- and on-screen, have contributed to it. Suchitra believes that in the wake of the 100-year celebrations of Indian cinema, this is a good point to stop, take a breath and look back. Even more to the point, it is a time to look forward.

Suchitra is happy to invite to you to participate in a day-long programme on Saturday, 26 April to remember the past, listen to views on the current state of our cinema, think about the future and exchange views with cinema practitioners and experts.

The Programme

10:00 AM: Photo and Stamp Cover, History of Kannada Cinema exhibition 

Chief Guests: 

PN Srinivasachary, IAS, Prinicipal Secretary to Govt of Karnataka

NR Vishukumar, Director, Information Department

Bharathi Vishnuvardhan, Actress

Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 - Prasthavane (An Introduction to the Seminar) by filmmaker TS Nagabharana

11.20 - Nadedu Banda Daari (The Road Up) 

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Actor Dr Jayamala

12:00 - Keynote Address: 

From the Centre to the Margins: Now and Ahead for Regional Cinema  

Curator and Critic Meenakshi Shedde

Interaction with the audience

13:00 - 13:45 - Lunch Break 

14:00 - 15:00 - Session I 

Kannada Cinema Now - Concept, Context and Content

Introduction - Chair and Moderator TS Nagabharana

Finance - Producer KCN Kumar

Challenges of Filmmaking - Sumana Kittur

Technology, Finance and Markets - Pawan Kumar

Interaction with the Audience

Closing Remarks - TS Nagabharana

15:00 - 15:30 - Session II (Special)

What About the Audience?

15:30 - 15:45 - Tea Break

15:45 - 16:45 - Session III

The Future - Form, Finance, Marketing and Distribution 

Introduction - Chair and Moderator Prakash Belawadi

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Distribution  

Mars Suresh -Local

CV Kumar 

National/International

Finance & Marketing - 

Fox Star Studios

Technology - Phani Eggone 

Interaction 

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​5:30 PM: Literature in Cinema by KM Chaitanya​

Speaker Bios:

Meenakshi Shedde, Renowned film curator and critic, Meenakshi Shedde worked as a journalist for 25 years writing on arts and entertainment, and gender and development issues before specialising in the multi-medium experience of cinema, television, radio and online platforms. Her writings on cinema have been featured in many publications in India and abroad, including Cahiers du Cinema (France), Sight and Sound (UK), Film Comment and India Abroad (US). She won the National Award for Best Film Critic and was presented the Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus Award),1998.

Bharathi Vishnuvardhan, Indian actress who has performed in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu language films. She was most seen as a leading actress in the Kannada film industry during the late 1960s to 1980s. Besides these languages, she also featured in Marathi films.

Dr. Jayamala, Kannada (Indian) film actress. Her famous films are Giri Kanye, Shankar Guru, Thaayi Saheba..to name a few. Her film Thaayi Saheba won the National award in 1997, which she produced and acted. She was also the Ex-President of Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce. 

KCN Kumar: Distributor and Producer in Kannada film industry.

Sumana Kittur, one of the few Woman filmmakers in Kannada film industry. Her debut film Slum bala as a director was appreciated and loved by the people very much. Her last film Edegarike also proved successful and is featured in many film festivals.

Suresh, Suresh, known in the fraternity as “Mars Suresh”, after his company Mars Distributors, is a former vice-president of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC), the apex body of Kannada cinema. 

CV Kumar is an Indian Tamil film producer, who heads the production studio Thirukumaran Entertainment. Noted for his innovative promotions and marketing, Kumar has also primarily introduced new talent into the film industry in terms of actors and technicians. 

Pawan Kumar is a film director, actor and screenwriter in the Kannada film industry. He is well known for the films Manasaare, Pancharangi, his directorial debut Lifeu Ishtene and the 2013 psychological thriller Lucia. 

Phani Eggone is the co-founder of Firefly Creative Studio, the go-to studio for high-end CGI(Computed Generated Imaging). Phani was also a finalist at the British Council’s Young Screen Entrepreneur Awards, 2011.SOme of their projects include ANAGANAGA O DHEERUDU, ROBOT,  MAGADHEERA,  GAALIPATA, ARUNDHATI and many others

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K.M. Chaitanya

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 film director, documentary maker and theater person. His first feature film Aa dinagalu in Kannada, won several awards including the Filmfare Awards South for Best Director and Best Feature Film in 2007. 

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Curator and Moderator

TS Nagabharana is an Indian theatre and film director, in the Kannada film industry and one of the pioneers of the Parallel Cinema. He is one of the few film directors to have straddled both the mainstream as well as parallel cinema worlds. He has achieved success both in Television and Cinema He has been the recipient of international, national, state and other awards for 20 of his 34 Kannada movies in the last 35 years.

Moderator

Prakash Belawadi is a theatre, film, television and media personality in Bangalore, India. He is an actor, writer, director and instructor working for the stage and screen. His debut film feature STUMBLE won the National Award in 2003 for Best Film in the regional language (English).

Regards

Anand Varadaraj

Secretary, Suchitra Film Society

 

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