IFFI 2017 International Cinema Catalogue

PANEL DISCUSSION
Tagore On Celluloid
“Tagore on Celluloid” presented by ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.
Moderator - Vani Tripathi Tikoo Producer & Actress
Vani Tripathi Tikoo is one of the youngest ever members of the Central Board of Film Certification. Her campaigns and outreach
programmes as an artist and activist have focused on encouraging women’s participation in politics and bringing the youth
to a universal platform that addresses issues like education, empowerment and employment. As a producer, she has been
deeply involved in programmes related to environment and global sustainability. She has also been closely involved in theatre,
films and television, having worked in India as well as abroad. As an actor, she has about 50 plays, 40-odd TV serials and
six films to her credit. After graduating in political science from Delhi University, she went to the Living Theatre Academy of
Drama and learnt acting under the guidance of the legendary theatre guru Ebrahim Alkazi. The noted theatre personalities Vani
has worked with include B.V. Karanth, Maya Rao, Barry John and Tripurari Sharma. Later, she worked as an actor-teacher at
the National School of Drama’s Theatre in Education Company. She founded the country’s first state government-run drama
school in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Natya Vidyalaya, in 2011. Vani was also attached to journalism and broadcasting in India.
She continues to contribute to Indian newspapers from time to time. She is currently on the Core Committee for the International
Film Festival of India.
Shoma A. Chatterji
Shoma A. Chatterji is a Kolkata-based freelance journalist, film scholar and author. She contributes to around a dozen print media
and online publications. She has won two National Awards for Best Writing on Cinema - for Best Film Critic in 1991 and for Best
Book on cinema in 2002 along with several other awards and fellowships. She has authored 24 books of which most are on Indian
cinema. Her latest, Woman at the Window (Harper-Collins India), deals with the material universe in Ray’s films adapted from
Tagore’s stories.
Pablo Cesar
At the age of six he began to project comics, at 10 he wrote and printed his first bulletin that he sold at the Champagnat School
where he was studying and in nearby kiosks. In 1975, his older brother gave him a video camera that he used intensively and
two years later he scripted and made his first short film of 7 minutes, followed by others. In 1980, for his short film Del genesis, he
was awarded the first prize in the “Experimental” category in the contest of the Ateneo Foto-Cine Rosario, in addition to earning a
mention for Best Editing and Third Prize (without category) in the contest of the Circle of Filmmakers Marplatenses and a Special
Mention of UNCIPAR. For his film De los caras de los espejos, Cesar won the First Prize of UNICA, the Amateur International Film
Union in 1983. He was a jury at the festivals of Amiens (France), Montreal Young Film Festival (Canada), Kelibia (Tunisia), Huy
(Belgium), Hyderabad (India), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Villa Carlos Paz and Buenos Aires. Since 1992 he is a professor at
the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires. He was a pioneer in film co-productions between Argentina and Tunisia (Equinoccio,
The Garden of Roses, 1991), India (Unicorn, The Garden of Fruits, 1996) and Mali (Aphrodite, The Garden of Perfumes, 1998).
These three films were mostly based on folk myths from each of the countries where they were filmed.
Raima Sen
Raima is an Indian film actress. Her breakthrough role came when she starred in Rituparno Ghosh's film Chokher Bali and the
critically acclaimed hit in 2005 Parineeta. 2014 saw Sen as the leading lady in the critically acclaimed Hrid Majharey, the first
Bengali movie based on the works of William Shakespeare, and presented as a tribute on the 450th year of birth of the Bard. Her
other works include the action thriller Dus and the Bengali film Antar Mahal, The Bong Connection, Manorama Six Feet Under
and the hit Bengali film Baishe Srabon.
Moon Moon Sen
Moon Moon Sen began her career as a journalist and film critic and later taught as a graphic designer before embarking on a
successful cinematic journey. As an actress, she has worked in more than 60 films in 22 languages and countless TV serials.
For over 6 years, she has been an active part of the Bengali "jatra", an ancient form of folk theatre with its roots in religion and
mythology.