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]
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Occupation(s) | film -author, -curator, -society-activist, and -festival-consultant. |
Years active | 1977 – present |
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] and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade.[23] Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India.[24][25] The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.[26][27]
Writings on cinema
editPremendra 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),[28] Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff, College Street, Chitrabhavna, and Chitralipi (Kolkata), Deep Focus (Bangalore),.[29] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif,[30] Subversive[31] 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 [32] published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions [33]
- Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta[34]
- Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' [35] (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') [36][37]
- Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? [38]
- Author - Folk Songs of Bengal [39]
Publications
editHe 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
edit- Vice President - Federation of Film Societies of India[40]
- General Secretary - Fipresci-India, India Chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics[41][42][43]
- Secretary - Asia Pacific, International Federation of Film Societies (IFFS)[44][45]
- Program Director Third Eye Asian Film Festival[46]
- Festival Coordinator South Asian Short Film Festival[47]
- Chairman Kalinga Global Film Festival[48]
- Advisor Nepal International Film Festival[49]
- Editor ECineIndia[50]
- Chairman Bengal International Short Film Festival
- Festival Director Thrissur International Film Festival[51]
Jury member (incomplete)
edit- Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition (India, 2004)
- Mumbai International Film Festival[52] (MAMI, Mumbai, India 2005)[53][54]
- Mumbai International Film Festival for Shorts Documentaries & Animations[55] (MIFF; 2006)
- Kara Film Festival[56] (Karachi, 2006)
- Hyderabad International Film Festival (India, 2008)
- Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films (Egypt, 2008)
- Jeevika Asian Livelihood Documentary Competition[57] (New Delhi, 2010)
- Short & Documentary Film Festival Hyderabad (2010)
- Shaken's Stars International Film Festival Almaty[58](Kazakhstan, 2012)
- Abu Dhabi Film Festival UAE[59] (Abu Dhabi, 2012)
- Evora International Film Festival for Shorts & Documentaries FIKE[60] (Portugal, 2013)
- Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival[61][62]
- Regard: Saguenay International Short Film Festival[63][64] (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)[65]
- Aurangabad International Film Festival (Aurangabad, India, 2020)[66]
- International Film Festival of Thrissur (Thrissur, India, 2020)
- Ottawa Indian Film Festival (Ottawa, Canada, 2021)[67]
- Siliguri International Short Film Festival (Siliguri, India, 2021)[68]
- Auroville Film Festival (Auroville, Pondicherry, 20222)[69]
External links
editReferences
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- ^ "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.
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- ^ "Assam international film festival kicks off in Jorhat college - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
- ^ "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.
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- ^ "Fresh take on silver screen tryst - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
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- ^ "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.
- ^ "FIPRESCI-India". FIPRESCI-India. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- ^ "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.
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- ^ "Premendra Mazumder – Nepal International Film Festival". 19 January 2020.
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- ^ Thrissur International Film Festival
- ^ "Kinema : : A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media".
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- ^ "ADFF Unveils Winners of 2012 Black Pearl, FIPRESCI and NETPAC Awards". abudhabifilmfestival.ae. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015.
- ^ "FIKE | 5ª feira, dia 24 | Grande Écran". Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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- ^ "KIMFF is back with 'unbroken spirit'". myrepublica.com.
- ^ "Programming". festivalregard.com.
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