Phillip Noyce honored with Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at IFFI 2024
Previous recipients include legends like Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Krzysztof Zanussi, Wong Kar-wai, and Michael Douglas.
Previous recipients include legends like Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Krzysztof Zanussi, Wong Kar-wai, and Michael Douglas.
Hugo Weaving is best known for his role as Agent Smith in 'The Matrix' franchise. With a career spanning decades, he has earned critical acclaim for his versatile performances.
From Gabbar Singh to Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Amjad Khan's emotional performance in 'Shatranj Ke Khiladi' left even Satyajit Ray moved.
Shoojit Sircar, acclaimed filmmaker, discusses the influence of Satyajit Ray on his work and shares insights on his upcoming film.
Shoojit Sircar celebrates Satyajit Ray's enduring influence on filmmaking and takes on the role of jury judge at the 2024 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.
The graduates of the thirteenth batch of the Film Wing, the first batch of the Electronic and Digital Media wing and the first batch of the Animation Cinema gets their Post Graduate Diploma Certificate after pursuing different specializations and successfully completed their first films.
Ray was fond of the great Hollywood masters, and never encouraged the arty-arty film-makers with no audience focus and scant responsibility to get the financiers money back. The director expresses himself with others money and for him to remain creative, has to understand his primary audience and devise means within available resources, to reach that audience.
Raju Raman, president, Cine Academy, meanwhile, recalled how the former President of France, François Mitterrand had to climb up a step at National Library to match the height of Ray so he could confer on him the prestigious Legion of Honour, the highest French order of merit.
The maestro of parallel cinema Ray’s political satire of 1980, ‘Hirak Rajar Deshe’ (In the land of the Diamond King) has once again drawn the attention with CPI-M using it for their digital campaign against the binary force of Trinamul Congress and the BJP.
This was announced during the Golden Jubilee edition of IFFI in 2019, by Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of I&B, as part of the Centenary celebrations of Satyajit Ray.
