3RD BOMBAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL JURY (1994)

JURY - MAIN FILM COMPETITION

KWAW ANSAH

Kwaw Ansah studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the American Musical and Denmark Academy. Initially trained in textile design, Ansah worked in the United African Company, a Unilever firm in Ghana. For his academic achievements, Ansah was awarded a grant to study film production at the RKO Studios in Hollywood, but before leaving for the US, he studied theatre design at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Ansah's debut feature film Love Brewed in the African Pot won a number of International awards, including the Silver Peacock at the 8th IFFI, New Delhi. Ansah is a Board Member of the Ghana Film Industry Corporation; Member, National Commission on culture; Abibigromma Theatre Group of the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon.

 

BARRY PARKER

Barry Parker is an animator and professor in the Animation Department of Sheridan College (Canada), the institute known for its teaching of classical animation. As Co-ordinator of Sheridan's International Summer School of Animation, Parker's contacts with India are very intimate. At present he is a visiting faculty member of the Animation Department of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Parker first visited India in 1989 as a Workshop Leader at the NID. He also conducted an animation workshop for the BIFF"92. Many budding animators have immensely gained in knowledge and skill through the animation/educational projects and workshops conducted by Barry Parker. One of his films Great Whales won the Best Film Award at the New York Animation Film Festival, 1974.

 

B.D.GARGA

B.D.Garga went through his peace in the early 50s; six years with films units in Europe and one year in Mosfilm Studios, Moscow. He emerged not only as a filmmaker but also a filmologist, critic and film historian of repute. He has been visiting lecturer at the Film & Television Institute of India in Pune, where he also helped found the National Film Archives of India. He was a consultant to UNESCO on visual arts and was on the committee of experts to prepare anthologies on the history of cinema. Garga's writings have been published in prestigious journals, including Cahiers du Cinema and Sight & Sound. He has also contributed to the American and Soviet Encyclopedias. His short films have won awards both in India and abroad.

 

GOUTAM GHOSE

Goutam Ghose graduated from the Calcutta University, Prior to plugging into filmmaking, he was a theatre activist and a photo journalist. He started making documentaries from 1973 with New Earth, followed by Hungry Autumn(1974), which won awards at Oberhausen and Leipzig. Two years later he made Chains of Bondage. In 1979 he entered the realm of feature films with Telugu film Maa Bhoomi ( Our Lnad) about the Naxalite movement in Andhera Pradesh. This film won the National Awards for the Best Telugu Film. Since then, Ghose has been bagging several prestigious national and international awards for his films including Dakhal (The Occupation), Paar, Antarjali Yarta (The Voyage Beyond) and Padma Nadir Majhi ( Boatman of the River Padma). His lates film Patang (The Kite) was shown at the Indian Panorama'94, 25th IFFI, Calcutta.

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