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    Meet Lakshmi Warrier, the only woman production manager in Mollywood

    • 29.09.2020
    • The News

    As the lone woman in the field, Lakshmi says that she was often sidelined because of her gender.

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    New York Film Festival 2020: Letter From Your Far-Off Country remixes the history of Indian protest

    • 29.09.2020
    • Firstpost

    Letter From Your Far-Off Country, currently playing at the New York Film Festival, boldly draws from different eras of Indian revolution, from the writings of Ambedkar, to fallen Indian communist leaders in the 1980s, to more recent demonstrations, like those at Shaheen Bagh.

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    Film Federation of India lauds Bengal government’s decision to reopen cinema halls

    • 29.09.2020
    • Times of India

    The West Bengal government on Saturday announced cinema halls, jatras, open air theatres and musical and dance performances will be allowed to resume in the state from October 1, adhering to physical distancing norms with a maximum crowd of 50 people.

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    For Korean OTT platform Wavve, content is key

    • 29.09.2020
    • Korea JoongAng Daily

    Over a year has passed since the launch of the homegrown OTT (over-the-top) platform Wavve, and in that time the service has managed to garner over 10 million subscribers. According to the platform, the percentage of paid subscribers has increased by 64.2 percent over the year, but it did admit that it still has a long way to go to be able to equally compete with OTT giants such as Netflix.

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    ‘Noise of silence’: Shot entirely in Tripura, Bollywood’s first film on NRC awaits OTT release

    • 29.09.2020
    • The Indian Express

    Director Saif Baidya says he got the idea for the film after his former Assistant Director, whose father is in the Army, was left out of the NRC.

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    Bollywood is capable of healing and strengthening itself, writes Prasoon Joshi

    • 29.09.2020
    • Firstpost

    Today, questions have arisen about the increasingly unsavoury aspects of the film industry and in particular, Bollywood. Some are pleased that the feet of clay are revealed whilst others piqued that the Film Industry is treated as a soft target, a means of distraction from broader issues. Let's understand more intricately why Cinema related issues have become increasingly polemical.

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    Shooting in UP’s upcoming film city expected to begin in three to four months, officials inspect site

    • 28.09.2020
    • Firstpost

    Additional Chief Secretary (Home) and Information Awanish Awasthi inspected the site in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority's (YEIDA's) Sector 21 and instructed officials to submit a detailed project report (DPR) soon.

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    K-Pop Doc ‘Break the Silence’ Tops New Films for a $12 Million Box-Office Weekend

    • 28.09.2020
    • Indiewire

    As reissues of "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" make the top 10, audiences still seem uncertain about theaters.

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    ‘The Disciple’ Director Chaitanya Tamhane On Independent Filmmaking In India — And Learning From Alfonso Cuarón

    • 28.09.2020
    • Forbes

    As a lot of studio films pulled out, so this became the year where the spotlight was on the more independent films, the kind of films that would probably get lost in all the noise and the media hype that the bigger films would come with. It was a silver lining in that sense.

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    How ‘The Mandalorian’ Creators Reduced Production Footprint Through Technology

    • 28.09.2020
    • Variety

    Rather than relocating the cast and crew from one location to another, “The Mandalorian” team shot half of the series on one Stagecraft that provided more than 60 backdrops.

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