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A couple of weeks ago, Kaberi and I were celebrating our ninth wedding anniversary. Nine years ago, a lot of things did not exist which we and hundreds of millions of people around the world take for granted today, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Skype. Combined with the falling cost of taking, editing and storing digital photos and videos, these sharing platforms have transformed the world we live in. . . . → Read More: Look back in wonder Last week, as part of an article about the Cinema Novo festival in Brugge, this 9-minute interview with us about Tagore and the dance film trilogy was published on Flemish cultural website cobra.be . On Sunday afternoon, Chandalika and Shyama were shown at the festival as part of its Focus on India. The films were invited to the festival . . . → Read More: Chandalika & Shyama at the Cinema Novo festival in Bruges 
We are now close to completing Chitrangada, the third and final feature film in our trilogy of authentic versions of Tagore’s dance-dramas. Thanks to making these films and translating Tagore’s texts for their subtitles, I have now had the opportunity to explore all three dance-dramas intensively and from a western perspective. This has made me realise that they are no less worthy of the international stage than classical western ballet or opera. . . . → Read More: Tagore’s dance-dramas on the world stage This morning, I woke to the sad news of the premature death of Steve Jobs. He is acknowledged in the end credits of all three films of our Tagore dance film trilogy. This is not because we had any direct contact with him. It is because we simply would not have made the films (or indeed any of our audiovisual and musical output) without the affordable creative tools resulting from his visionary role at Apple. . . . → Read More: A tribute to Steve Jobs Last night, I finally succeeded in making the ‘Tagore dance film trilogy’ Facebook application work! The application allows the films to be viewed from within Facebook in full-screen, high definition for $0.99 per film. This post includes the code which anyone with a film on Dynamo Player could use to embed their film to Facebook. . . . → Read More: Getting the Tagore dance film trilogy onto Facebook Chandalika had its world première on Sunday evening at the Stratford-upon-Avon Picturehouse, with the help of its manager Greg Eden-Field. Special thanks to Dr Diana Owen, Samantha Young and the rest of the team at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Anne Hathaway’s Cottage for arranging a memorable Tagore weekend. Chandalika and Shyama, which was premièred . . . → Read More: Shyama & Chandalika now on Dynamo Player 
In case you don’t know, I’m about to make my second and third feature films back-to-back. Like the first (Shyama), they are ‘dance-dramas’ by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. . . . → Read More: Tagore dance film trilogy: crowdfunding appeal 
Although Kaberi and I returned from the Ourense Film Festival, Galicia, Spain almost a month ago, many aspects of the experience have stuck in our minds. This is largely due to the kindness of all the people we met there, especially festival director Enrique Nicanor, his wife Cayetana, his festival team and Thelma Putnam and her dance students at the Escuela de Artes Escénicas y Musicales de Ourense. . . . → Read More: Shyama at the Ourense Film Festival 
Debo dar las gracias a Enrique Nicanor, Director del Festival de Cine Internacional de Ourense, no sólo para la inclusión de un sección “Homenaje a Rabindranath Tagore” en el festival de este año para conmemorar el 150 aniversario del nacimiento de Tagore, en colaboración con la Biblioteca Tagore de Ourense fundada por José Paz, sino también para invitar a Kaberi y a mí a tomar parte en él. Es uno de los primeros tributos, bastante completo, del 150 aniversario del nacimiento de Tagore, que la UNESCO ha establecido para 2011. . . . → Read More: Homenaje a Tagore en el Festival de Cine Internacional de Ourense
I should begin by thanking Enrique Nicanor, Director of the Ourense International Film Festival in Galicia, Spain, for including a ‘Homage to Tagore’ section in this year’s festival to mark Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, in conjunction with the Tagore Library of Ourense founded by José Paz. It is one of the first, fairly comprehensive tributes to Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, which UNESCO is marking in 2011. . . . → Read More: Homage to Tagore at the Ourense International Film Festival |
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