The Taiwanese film “I Can’t Live Without You”, directed by Leon Dai, won the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI 2009) which drew to a close in Goa this evening.
The Silver Peacock for the Best Director went to Ounie Lecomte for the South Korean [...]
A total of 39 films made by the Films Division on classical music and maestros were shown as part of the 40th International Film Festival of India which concludes Thursday evening. The section, ‘Moments with the Maestros’ had commenced on 24 November and concluded on 30 November.
‘Moments with The Maestros” had been inaugurated by Goa [...]
Jagor (Konkani) an issue based film but not preachy; dealt with the issue of farming land. The problems like pollution, SEZ, encroachments, environment which are dealt in the file are every where said Mr. Damodar Naik, who is the writer and producer of the film. He was addressing a press conference held in the media [...]
The Goa IFFI sure brings together a melting pot of industry celebrities and talents and this time was no exception!
We heard that Farhan Akhtar, Divya Dutta & Genelia D’Souza had a rocking time on-board their chartered flight while they were enroute to IFFI. The unlikely trio got along like a house on fire chatting up [...]
Sir Ben Kingsley has arrived in Goa to participate in the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2009.
Kingsley, who was received at the state airport, said that he is looking for finances for his next movie on Taj Mahal, the grandeur monument by Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaj.
The Hollywood actor, who is a household [...]
A delegation of Save our Slopes (SOS) and Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) visited the town and country planning (TCP) office on Monday to handover a memorandum to the chief town planner as decided at the public meeting held in Cortalim on Sunday to protest an allegedly illegal project coming up at Dabolim.
A press note issued [...]
German major Bosch will invest Euro 10 million (about Rs 70 crore) to set up a new manufacturing unit in Goa to cater to its growing customer-base in food and pharmaceuticals segments in India, a senior company official said.
“We are planning to set up a manufacturing unit for Euro 10 million at Viena in Goa. [...]
Veteran Actor Sharmila Tagore on Tuesday called for raising the profile of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) by getting a prominent film personality to be the face of the festival and ensure a better focus for the event.
“International film festivals need a face to raise its profile. Bureaucrats gets transferred whereas prominent film [...]
Entertainment Society of Goa CEO Manoj Srivastava’s attempts to rekindle the magic of yesteryear cinema via a fashion show displaying the dress styles of heroines through the years, failed miserably on Monday. It was a brilliant idea that could have been the highlight of the entire International Film Festival of India (Iffi), but was unsuccessful [...]
Ben Kingsley who won accolades and award for Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi will be attending the premiere of Amitabh Bachchan starrer Paa on December 3 in Mumbai.
Ben Kingsley shares the screen space with Amitabh Bachchan in Leena Yadav’s Teen Patti. A source reveals, ”Both the actors bonded really well on the sets and [...]
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