IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India

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COMPETITION CINEMA OF THE WORLD IFFI-2008 Brazil-Canada-Japan Blindness 2008, 35 mm, Colour, 120 mins, English Director Fernando Meirelles Screenplay Don McKellar Cinematography César Charlone Editor Daniel Rezende Music Uakti (Marco Antônio Guimarães) Cast Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover, Alice Braga Production Design Matthew Davies, Tulé Peak Art Joshu de Cartier Sound Guiherme Ayrosa Costumes Renée April Production Bee Vine Pictures; O2 Films; Pot Boiler Films Festivals Cannes, Sarajevo, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Atlantic Film Festival-Canada, Helsinki An adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winning Portuguese writer José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. The novel's author originally refused to sell rights for a film adaptation, not wanting it to fall into the wrong hands. Meirelles was able to acquire rights with the condition that the film would be set in an unrecognisable city. Premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival this year, it follows a handful of people as they try to survive hunger in a government makeshift prison. The book focused on a group of the afflicted who are drawn together and, with the government baffled by the problem, sent away to an asylum and placed under heavy guard. More and more inmates arrive until it becomes apparent that the epidemic has swept the world. The whole planet has gone blind, with one exception: a doctor and his wife who has retained her sight, guiding the unnamed characters during their confinement and leading their escape into the chaos of the world outside, where gangs of sightless children attack sightless old men, and dogs savage the bodies of the dead and dying. The film incidentally has been strongly some organisations representing the blind community Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in City of God, He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Best Director award in 2005 for The Constant Gardener. Meirelles studied at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo during the 1980s. His graduation work was done in the form of a film, instead of the traditional designs of the other students: he went to Japan and bought professional video equipment to do the job. He presented it and graduated with the minimum acceptable grade. After several years in independent television, he became an advertisement film director. He is still one of the partners of O2 Filmes, the biggest Brazilian advertisement firm, which has also produced City of God, Domésticas (Maids) and Viva Voz. 30
IFFI-2008 CINEMA OF THE WORLD 2008, 35mm, Colour, 97 mins, Bugarian Bulgaria Forecast / Itpothoza Margarita leaves the famous reporter Marco Matanich and joins her brother going for windsurfing with his friends from different Balkan countries. Marco arrives on their island "only" for the board she stole from him. The wind stops, The men start fighting over nationalistic issues. Marco, to prove his skills to Margarita, shoots them in a manipulative reportage. Quoted by leading media, it fires a Balkan conflict. The friends build national borders between their tents. Margarita disappears in the sea. Will the men find her and will everyone find peace? Depends on love one is ready to invest and the wind he deserves to get. Director Zornitsa Sophia Screenplay Zornitsa Sophia Cinematography Krum Rodriguez Editor Aleksander Etimov Music Roumen Toskov Cast Kresimir Mikic (Marco), Teodora Duhovnikova (Margarita), Asen Blatechki (the psycho), Deian Slavchev-Deo (Victor, the Cloud) Production Design Sabina Hristova Sound Alexander Buchvarov Costumes Sandra Klincheva Production Bulgar Beats 69 Skobelev Bldg 1606 Sofia, Bulgaria T: +350 3 869 64 98 F: +359 2 851 96 94 Email: bulgar.beats@gmail.com www. Milafrommars.com World Sales Nu Image / Millennium Films 6423 Wilshore Blvd Los Angeles, California 90048, USA T: +1 320.388.6901 F: +1 310 388-6900 www.nuimage.net Zornitsa Sophia is a Master of Fine Arts with major in painting. She was art director with a leading international ad agency and held over 60 art exhibitions across the world before switching to filmmaking. Her graduation film from the National Academy of Film and Theatre in Sofia, also her first film as a writer, director and producer, Mila From Mars (2004) won 16 awards, including three best film awards, and was the Bulgarian submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2005. 31
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