6TH MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL JURY (2000)

JURY - INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION

RICHARD KAPLAN

RICHARD KAPLAN Born in New York in 1925, Richard Kaplan majored in English and Political Science. He began his film career in the Department of Cinema at the University of Southern California. Winner of two Academy Awards. RICHARD KAPLAN has been a documentary and television film writer - producer - director in the United States and Abroad. His films explore ideas and involve extensive historical research. Among his credits are: THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY, KING: A FILMED RECORD…..MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS, A LOOK AT LIV and CHINA JOURNAL. THE EXILES - about the refugees who fled from Hitler - won the EMMY Award. His expeerience includes working with Marlene Dietrich, James Earl Jones, Liv Ulman and Laurence Olivier. Kaplan is an Adjunct Professor of Film at Columbia University, and has served as a Video Consultant to Harvard Business School. In 1992, a retrospective of his works was held in Bilbao, Spain where he also served as the Chairman of the Festival Jury.

 

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.

 

FERRY RADAX

FERRY RADAX- Born in Vienna in 1932, FERRY RADAX learnt to play the piano in Germany in 1940-44. After World War II he became a Jazz musician and played in US Army Clubs, and worked as a photo-reporter and assistant in films to earn his tuition fee for the film school in Vienna. He held his first exhibition of paintings and surrealist photographs at the International Arts club in Vienna in 1954. He spent 22 years in Italy writing the screenplay and directing his first feature film and studying films in Rome. Living in Switzerland, he made 165 TV spots and even won the GOLDEN PALME in Cannes. Between 1959-63 he made SUN STOP which is an experimental classic now: portraits and docu-dramas on may avant-garde poets like H.C. Artmann, James Joyce, thomas Bernhard; on painters like Fuchs, Brauer; on the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; on the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach etc. He produced, wrote and directed over 100 TV films in Europe, South America, Japan, New Zealand and the US. His experimental films have won numerous awards in France, Berlin and Austria.

 

LUCIANO RIGOLINI

LUCIANO RIGOLINI was born in 1950 in Lugano Switzerland. He started work in 1971 as a Cinematographer, director and documentary film maker for Swiss Television. He graduated from "Universite Paris VIII, in 1983" in Film Studies on Documentaries about Art. He spent 1989 doing Artistic research in Photography and lectured in Rome, Tokyo, Houston. He was professor of Film and Photography at the Southern Califorina Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles from 1994-98. He has had a showing of his films and photographs a the Centre G. Pompidou in Paris in 1987; at the Lugano Canotnal Art Museum in 1992; and at Kunsthaus, Zurich in 1997. At the Festival du Film sur Art in Montreal, he won the Jury Prize in 197; and at the Festival URTI in Monte Carlo, he won the Documentary Prize for the film THE WORDS OF SILENCE. Since 1995, Rigolini has been the Commissioning Editor with I' Unite Documentaire - one of the leading producers of documentaries in Europe.

 

NICOLE SALOMON

NICOLE SALOMON - Nicole Salomon joined the Annecy Film Club and helped in organising the first ANNECY FESTIVAL in 1960. Elected to the ASIFA Executive Board, she served as its General Secretary. In 1971 she co-founded the Annecy Workshop (A.A.A.) to get young people interested in Animation to use it for expression and communication. The ASIFA WORKSHOP GROUP started by her runs 25 workshops in 20 countries. Author of two books - ALEXEIEFF and CLAIRE PARKER, Nicole has written numerous articles about Animation. She has been on the Selection Committee and a Jury member for several international film festivals: Tampere, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Ottawa, Annecy, Kecskernet, KROK, Moscow Golden Fish, Bo0urg-en-Bresse. MIFF'2000 has given her the opportunity to visit Indian for the first time, and she has GREAT EXPECTATIONS!!

JURY - INTERNATIONAL VIDEO COMPETITION

NGUYEN HA BAC

NGUYEN HA BAC - Nguyen Ha Bac has produced about 50 Animation films in Vietnamese since 1976 - 38 films as an animator, 6 films as Design painter, and 8 films as Director, Born in Hanoi in 1957 his childhood was spent in war-torn Vietnam. After completing College in 1969, he attended as Animation Workshop conducted by russian experts and got hooked on to learning more about Animation films. He then joined the Unviversity of Fine Art in Hanoi. Nguyen spends his time professionally between painting and animation. He spend 1984-85 at the DEFA STRICK FILM STUDIO at Dresden, Germany. He pursued Animation films in Bordeaux, France. Nguyen was on the Jury at the Annecy Festival, and the Festival International in Bruxelles (MONDE LA VIDEO) in 1995. His films CHU CHUOT BIEN HINH (Reformed Mouse) and QUA VA CONG (Crow and Peacock) won prizes at National Film Festivals. He has held private exhibitions of his paintings in Annecy, Paris, Fraench Bruxelles, Belges. Some of his paintings are exhibited in International Museums of Fine Art. Today he is a design painter and director in a Vietnamese Studio of Animation Films. He specializes in paper-cut Vietnamese animation films.

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