Female filmmakers of Indian origin are making history by standing out as award winning directors including Mira Nair (2016’s Queen of Katwe) and Deepa Mehta (2012’s Midnight’s Children) In 2015, Ruchika Oberoi won the FEDORA prize for best new director at the Venice Film Festival with her first feature, Island City. Konkona Sen...
India Allocated Funds Promote Movies at Global Festivals
India's Information and Broadcasting Ministry has unveiled a Film Promotion Fund to help promote Indian films entered in the foreign-language Oscar category, and those competing at major international festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Busan, Toronto, Locarno and Venice and Rotterdam, among others. While the total size of the fund was...