5TH MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL JURY (1998)

JURY - VIDEO COMPETITION

D.GAUTAMAN

D. Gautaman Studied film direction at the Films and Television Institute of India, Pune where he topped his class of 1968. He started his film career as Chief Assistant to the internationally acclaimed film maker Ramu Kariat. In 1971, he joined the Films Division, where he rose from the post of Deputy Director to the Chief Producer. He is widely known as an ardent advocate of rural oriented films and he has since made over hundred films on agricultural and allied subjects, which have bagged national and international awards. He is a highly respectable teacher of cinema.

 

GIRISH KASARAVALLI

A 1975 product of FTII ( Film and Television Institute of India) Pune, GIRISH KASARAVALLI student film AVASHESH won the Best Student Film Award, and the President's Silver Lotus in 1976. He became the youngest director to win the coveted President's Golden Lotus for the Best Indian film of 1978 for his film GHATASHRADDHA (The Ritual), which was screened in various film festivals of Mannheim, Melbourne, Nantes, New York, Berlin and London. GHATASHRADDHA became the only Indian film to be selected by the National Film Archives, Paris, to be screened as one of the hundred best films of the world, to celebrate the centenary of cinema. Among the numerous awards it picked up, was the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. In 1978 he won the President's Golden Lotus for TABARANA KATHE (The Story of Tabara) and became one of four Indian Directors to win this award more than once - the other being Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Tapan Sinha. It went to Tashkent, Nantes, Tokyo and the Festival of India in Russia. His 1989 film MANE(The House) won the Silver Lotus for the Best Kannada Film and was screened at the Sydney, London, Fukowaka Film Festivals. His THAYI SAHEBA again won the President's Golden Lotus for the Best Film of 1998 and even the Filmfare Award for Best Film, Best Director. Girish Kasaravalli was given the Puttanna Award by the Government of Karnataka for his contribution to Kannada Films.

 

RASHMI DORAISWAMY

Dr. Rashmi Doraiswamy has studied Russian language and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral dissertation was on Mikhail Bakhtin, the well-known Russian Philosopher. Executive Editor of Cinemaya the Asian film Quarterly, she was on the international jury of the Mannheim International Film Festival in 1989. Her writings on Indian cinema have been published in prestigious publications in India and abroad, including Cinemaction (France), the Hawaii Film Guide and in encyclopedia. In 1995, she won the National Award for the Best Film Critic.

 

RUCHIRA GUPTA

Ruchira Gupta born in 1964, India. Ruchira has 13 year long experience in journalism in India, USA and England - first in print and then in television. Masters in English Literature, she has produced several documentaries, one of which. The Selling of Innocents won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for the year 1997. This documentar was made for the Canada Broadcasting Corporation and HBO. She was a Fullbright Fellow to University of Illinois, USA in 1993.

 

RUAF AHMED

After graduating from the Karanataka University, did post-graduate diploma in journalism in Mumbai. He won the Times of India Gold Medal for the Most outstanding student. Edited the Sunday edition of Free Press Journal and also its film pages. Later he edited Filmfare for the Times of India Group. Was chief of Bureau of the Asian Age, Mumbai. Has extensively written on cinema for various publications. Produced film-based television programmes for Doordarshan's national Network. He was on Borard of the National Film Development Corporation.

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