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3RD
BOMBAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL
JURY (1994)
JURY
- MAIN FILM COMPETITION
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NAGISA
OSHIMA
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| Nagisa
Oshima Born in 1932, Kyoto, Japan. Nagisa Oshima was
13 when Japan was defeated and the World War I ended.
During his student days, he acted in and directed
plays. He was also one of the leaders of the Zengakuren
student movement. In 1954, he graduated from the Kyoto
University and subsequently topped the list of assistant
directors' entrance examination held by Shochiku Studio.
Early on, Oshima wrote many scenarios and a good deal
of film criticism. He made his debut A Town of Love,
and Hope in 1959, followed by Cruel Story of Youth
and The Sun's Burial in 1960. His next film Night
and Fog was taken off the screens in Japan because
it dealt with the highly controversial student movement,
after that, Oshima left Schochiku to establish his
own independent production set-up. Since Death by
Hanging (1968), his films have attracted worldwide
attention and acclaim. Oshima has also directed many
documentary films for television including Kyoto,
My Mother's Place for BBC in 1991. Nagisa Oshima is
President of the Director' Guild of Japan. |
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AMOS
GITAI
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| Amos
Gitai born in 1950, Haifa, Israel. Amos Gitai studied
architecture at Haifa's Technion Institute of Technology,
where he graduated in 1975. He did his postgraduation
in Architecture at the University of California in
1976, and obtained a doctorate in the following year.
While studying, he started making films dealing mainly
with architecture. Later he made documentaries for
the Israeli Television, the last of which, Bait (House)
was not televised because of its sympathies towards
Palestinians. After several documentaries shot in
different parts of the world. Gitai made his first
feature film Esther in 1985, followed by Berlin Jerusalem
(1989), with Golem - The Spirit of Exoile (1992),
gitai feels he has completed a trilogy - all of these
film deal with the people moving from one place to
another, being displaced in some way. Several major
international film festival and institutions have
held retrospectives of Gitai's films. |
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WERNER
KOBE
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| Werner
Kobe born in 1952. Werner Kobe studied Economics and
Social Sciences in freiburg, Tunis and Geneva. For
the past 15 years, he has been working as a journalist,
specialising in African. Asian and Latin American
cinema. A close observer of Indian Cinema, Kobe has
co-authoured (with Chidananda Das Gupta) a book Cinema
in India (in German). Besides his writing occupation,
he has also been associated with several film institutions
and festival. He is a member of the Artistic Committee
of the Oberhausen Film Festival. He has conceptualised
and organised many collaborative international film
events in Germany, France, Italy, etc. |
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