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Mumbai:- Slumdog Millionaire child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail is back on the streets after his shanty house was demolished by BMC officials here on Thursday .Azharuddin, who played young Salim in Danny Boyle’s multiple Oscar winning film, lost his make-shift home after officials from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai demolished the shanties in Garib Nagar slum of Bandra East.“All the illegal encroachments on the nullah were demolished on Thursday today because it needs to be widened to avoid flood-like situation during monsoons,” Umashankar Mistry, H-East ward officer told PTI here.Azharuddin said his family would rebuild the house. “There is…

American director Martin Scorsese, who needs no introduction to film buffs, again spoke up for the quality and value of filmmaking today, announcing the World Cinema Foundation’s latest alliances to the journalists here at Cannes Festival. Highlights follow:Introducing the Foundation, which he chairs:We started the World Cinema Foundation to provide assistance to films and filmmakers who needed it, with restoration and the preservation of their work… Film preservation is always an uphill battle. There’s never enough time. Films are delicate, and they’re apt to deteriorate unless they’re stored under optimal conditions. Of course, to make matters more difficult, conditions are…

The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival will return to The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater in June for its 20th anniversary with a packed program of films dedicated to raising awareness of human rights issues around the world . The festival, co-presented by Human Rights Watch and The Film Society, will run from June 11 to 25, featuring 21 feature-length films and 11 shorts from 17 countries, including 26 New York premieres. “When the festival began 20 years ago, it was a rare oasis for people to see compelling and timely human rights films,” said John…

New York, NY – The Museum of Modern Art presents Kim Longinotto, a two-week exhibition showcasing 14 documentaries made over a 30-year span by internationally-acclaimed WMM filmmaker Kim Longinotto. Renowned for creating extraordinary human portraits and tackling controversial topics with sensitivity, compassion and humor, Longinotto is noted for her fearlessness and unique style of cinéma vérité filmmaking. Set around the globe from London to Cameroon, Tehran to Tokyo, the films featured in the retrospective tackle a diversity of difficult topics, often from the perspective of the least heard members of society. Longinotto will be on hand from London for the…

CANNES, FRANCE – May 12, 2009 – The 2009 Cannes International Film Festival will include a benefit to honor the earthquake victims in Abruzzo, Italy consisting of a powerful film presentation with musical performance and cocktail reception. It will take place on May 20, 2009 at 3pm. Members of the film industry, artists and citizens of the world will gather at the benefit for the world premiere of the film and musical concert “CANTO 6409”, a 22′ film that was created and directed by Dino Viani, an independent filmmaker who participated in festivals around the year, including the Biennale of…

Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced the official selections for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Film Festival will run from Thursday, June 18 to Sunday, June 28. Now in its fifteenth year, the Los Angeles Film Festival is widely recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to some of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world. …

French film “Seraphine,” based on the life of little-known painter Séraphine de Senlis, swept the awards at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival, winning Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. “Blue Gold: World Water Wars” won the prize for Best Documentary. “Lymelife,” directed by Derick Martini and starring Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon and Emma Roberts, opened the eight-day festival, which closed with the west coast premiere of Marc Webb’s “(500) Days of Summer,” starring Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.Launched in 1999, the Newport Beach Film Festival is…

The 7th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles announced its 2009 Award winners with Nina Paley’s SITA SINGS THE BLUES as the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature and Nandita Das’s FIRAAQ receiving an Honorable Mention in the category. Rajesh Jala’s CHILDREN OF THE PYRE was named as the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary. Dipti Gogna’s NARMEEN won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short with Sushrut Jain’s ANDHERI receiving an Honorable Mention. Audience Choice Awards went to Sooni Taraporevala’s LITTLE ZIZOU for Narrative, Faiza Ahmad Khan’s SUPERMEN OF MALEGAON for Documentary…

“SEE Fest has pioneered the concept of regional, cross-border programming with issue-driven films that tell a larger story about the Balkans and South East Europe, where borders of all kinds are fluid and porous just as often as poisonous. With an overarching goal of presenting multiple points of view, the festival unlocks the delicate doors into human existence and concerns of our time. Moral dilemmas of modern marriage (“Behind the glass”, Croatia), or traditional painting of a bride that holds on to ancient customs (“The painted bride”, Bulgaria) exist side by side just as ever-intriguing question of the roots of…

At the eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival, the top awards went to Iranian drama “About Elly” and American documentary “Racing Dreams.””About Elly” (Darbareye Elly), written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature. The film follows a group of college friends who reunite for a weekend getaway along the Caspian Sea, where one of them mysteriously disappears. The jurors for the World Narrative Competition (Bradley Cooper, Uma Thurman, Todd Haynes, Meg Ryan, and Richard Fischoff) noted, “The universality of the characters and themes and the director’s riveting grasp of this story make About Elly a…