Premendra Mazumder
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]
Premendra Mazumder | |
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Occupation | 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][23] and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade.[24] Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India.[25][26] The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.[27][28]
Writings on cinema
Premendra 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),[29] Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff, College Street, Chitrabhavna, and Chitralipi (Kolkata), Deep Focus (Bangalore),.[30] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif (Paris),[31] Subversive [32][33] 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 [34] published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions [35]
- Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta [36]
- Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' [37] (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') [38][39]
- Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? [40]
- Author - Folk Songs of Bengal [41]
Publications
He 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
- Vice President - Federation of Film Societies of India[42]
- Secretary - Fipresci-India, India Chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics[43][44][45]
- Secretary - Asia Pacific, International Federation of Film Societies (IFFS)[46][47]
- Program Director Third Eye Asian Film Festival[48]
- Coordinator South Asian Short Film Festival[49]
- Advisor Nepal International Film Festival[50]
- Founder President - Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI)
Jury member (incomplete)
- Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition (India, 2004)
- Mumbai International Film Festival [51] (MAMI, Mumbai, India 2005)[52][53]
- Mumbai International Film Festival for Shorts Documentaries & Animations [54] (MIFF; 2006)
- Kara Film Festival [55] (Karachi, 2006)
- Hyderabad International Film Festival (India, 2008)
- Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films (Egypt, 2008)
- Jeevika Asian Livelihood Documentary Competition [56] (New Delhi, 2010)
- Short & Documentary Film Festival Hyderabad (2010)
- Shaken's Stars International Film Festival Almaty [57](Kazakhstan, 2012)
- Abu Dhabi Film Festival UAE [58] (Abu Dhabi, 2012)
- Evora International Film Festival for Shorts & Documentaries FIKE [59] (Portugal, 2013)
- Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival [60][61]
- Regard: Saguenay International Short Film Festival [62][63] (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)[64]
- Aurangabad International Film Festival (Aurangabad, India, 2020)[65]
- International Film Festival of Thrissur (Thrissur, India, 2020)
External links
References
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- "Bengali film fest to screen films from India, Bangladesh - 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.
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- Mazumder, Premendra (11 August 2011). "FOLK SONGS OF BENGAL". IDEAINDIA.COM – via Amazon.
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- https://www.dhakatribune.com/showtime/2020/01/11/top-10-indian-films-in-2019-according-to-critics
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