2ND BOMBAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL JURY (1992)

JAYA BACHCHAN

Jaya Bachchan (nee Bhaduri) is one of India's most accomplished and versatile film actresses. Mrs. Bachchan is the Ex-Chairperson of the Children's Film Society.

 

SHRI FALI BILIMORIA

Shri Fali Billimoria was born and raised in Bombay, a place he has continued to live and work in. He studied medicine and gave it up in the last year of obtaining his MBBS degree. He entered into left-wing politics during the historic 1942 to 1947 period. By then he felt it was too late to go back to his studies. At this stage he met filmmaker Paul Zils, previously of UFA Studios, West Germany and Warner Bros. USA, who was interned in India during the war. The two struck up a close and rewarding partnership in the field of documentary filmmaking from 1947 to 1959, the year that Paul Zils left India. From 1959 onwards Bilimoria worked as an independent filmmaker, directing and producing advertising, documentary and feature films. Bilimoria has been in the forefront of the Indian documentary movement in its most formative years. He has won many international awards and distinctions and has served on several committees and festival juries. Among the most notable of his films are The House that Ananda Builts (nominated for the Oscar in 1968), The Call, Water, Look at Us Now and The Last Raja.

 

PHILIP GLASS

PHILIP GLASS - One of the most innovative of contemporary American Composers, Philip Glass has fashioned what he has described as a "new language" that attracts a large and diverse audience from the worlds of classical music, disco, progressive jazz rock and Jass. Mr.Glass has experimented as imaginatively with fusing his perceptions of music compositions with that of film. Among other films Powaqqatsi (1988) directed by Godfrey Reggio, is a film without speech for which Mr. Glass wrote the score. The film reinvents elements of anthropological and ethnographic filmmaking and has a rich and diverse soundtrack which resulted from research into the local music of Brazil, Peru and West Africa. Mr. Glass has used indigenous instruments, human voices, juxtaposed with direct sound such as that of waterfalls and trains whistles. The film has one section in India in which Shyam Benegal and Mandeep Kakkar were closely involved.

 

JOHN HALAS

JOHN HALAS - Honorary President of International Animated Film Association and President of the British Federation of Film Societies. John Halas was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1912. He was educated at the Academy of Arts in Budapest and the Institute de Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1940 he formed Halas & Batchelor Studios in London with his wife Jay Batchelor. He was also the founder of the Educational Film Centre in 1960 and The Great Master Ltd. In 1981. During his long career he has been co-producer and director over 2000 animated and live-action films including some of Europe's first experiments in new techniques. Notable among his many achievements are Animal Farm (1954), a feature-length animated film of George Orwell's Classic novel and The Owl and the Pussycat (1951), Europe's first 3-D Film.

 

KEN OKUBO

KEN OKUBO - Born Tokyo, 1950. Become involved with cinametheque activities, freelance writing and producing 16mm films while studying at Waseda University. After quitting university, continued as a critic to find out and support new talents for cinema in Japan. Worked as a juror for "Young Cinema Competition" of 1989 Tokyo International Film Festival.

 

JEANNETTE PAULSON

JEANNETTE PAULSON - Ms. Paulson was the founder of the Hawaii International Film Festival while serving as the Community Relations Officer at the East West Center in 1981. She has served in a leadership capacity for the Festival since then. When the Festival became a no-profit corporation in 1989, she was named the Featival's first Director, an office she still holds. She was also the founding Director of the Palm Springs Interntional Film Festival starting it in 1989. Before joining the East-West Center, Ms. Paulson produced and wrote television programmes for Hawaii's Educational Television. For seven years she was a professional starytellere in Oregon and Hawaii. She received her mother's degree from University of Hawaii in 1989 after completing a thesis on "How the American Audiences view Asian films" she is a member of the six-person steering committee of the Asian Film Center. She has received numerous awards for outstanding service in the arts and humanities in Hawaii and Oregon. Befoere moving to Honolulu in 1975, Ms. Paulson lived in Oregon where she grew up.

 

BAKU SADYKOV

BAKU SADYKOV - Baku Sadykov studied direction at the Theatre institute in Tadjikstan. He started out as an assistant to Boris Kimiagarov at the Tadjikfilm Studio on his film Legend about Rustom, Rustom and Sohrab and Firdausi's Shah Nama. Five years later he started work as a director of documentary films in the republic courses offered by Goskino and was a student of Tarkovsky, Emil Lotyanu, Nikita Mikhaelkov and Gleb Panfilov. He completed this course in 1978.