Dear all,

‘Kramasha’, a 22 minutes FTII diploma film
by Amit Dutta

will be screened at the
10th MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
On the 4th February, Monday at 6:30PM
At TataTheatre, National Centre For Performing Arts,
Nariman Point,
Mumbai
It will be great if you could come for the screening
and/or forward to those
who might be interested.

Regards
Savita Singh (Cinematographer)
saviftii@...

Title of the film: KRAMASHA

About the film:
A small Indian village, a house, early morning; a
family is sleeping.
The boy is sleeping next to the window. He is asleep,
yet awake. A mysterious man with a black coat comes
every morning when everyone else is sleeping. The boy
has seen him only in his dreams.
In this state of conscious and unconscious, the boy
hallucinates about the history of his mysterious
sleepy village, childhood and nostalgia.
The man with the black coat gets killed in the end.

Producer: Film and Television Institute of India
Exercise: A Final Year Diploma Film
Name of the film: Kramasha (TO BE CONTINUED…)
Format: 35 millimeter, Colour
Language: Hindi
Duration: 22 minutes
Stock/Emulsion: Kodak vision II series

Director: Amit Dutta
Cinematographer: Savita Singh
Sound: Ajit Singh Rathore
Edit: Arun Bali
Cast: Chandrashekhar Dutta, Aashutosh, Meenal,
Tirtha Umbrigar, Soham, Vimal Varma.

FESTIVAL:
Won FIPRESCI International Critic’s Award at the
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2007,
Germany.

National winner (Cinematography), Kodak Film school
Competition, 2007
Asia-pacific runner up for Cinematography, Kodak Film
school Competition-‘07

Cinematographer was selected as a scholar for Budapest
Cinematography
Master Class, 2007 with Vilmos Zigmond.

Won Gold Medal in Fiction category at the
International Festival of Documentary and Short Film,
ZINEBI, Spain, 2007

Selected for competitive section, Munich Film
Festival, 2007.
Selected for Kara Film Festival, Pakistan.
Showing at SAVAC, Toronto, Canada-2008
Selected for MIFF, 2007 (International
Competitive Section)

Reviews

“Kramasha from India—a dazzling, virtuoso piece of
mise en scene in 35-millimeter, full of uncanny
imagery about the way the narrator imagines the past
of his village and his family. Kramasha from India—a
dazzling, virtuoso piece of mise en scene in
35-millimeter, full of uncanny imagery about the way
the narrator imagines the past of his village and his
family. ” Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.

Kramasha is a film about storytelling, with narrative
spun and their interconnections made visible. ….It’s
a leaner, more disciplined, and more elegant affair.
Olaf Moller, FILM COMMENT (Nov-Dec 2007)

Camera movements, compositions in depth, colors,
editing, changes in focus: these are important parts
of Dutta's technical arsenal, marshaled together to
yield a highly suggestive synthesis of documentary and
fiction in which the main preoccupation is a myth of
origins.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
© FIPRESCI 2007


Links:
http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2007/oberhausen/to_be_continued_jrosen\
baum.htm
http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2007/oberhausen/oberhausen_ndx.htm
http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/film/2007/05/10/adolescent-sex-oberhausen/
http://wwwjp.kodak.com/JP/ja/motion/student/thecomp/2007winners.shtml


FILMOGRAPHY of Amit Dutta (Director):

MASAAN-FICTION-35MM-9'-2001

CHAKRAVAK-FICTION-35MM-4'-2002

KESHKAMBLI-DOCUMENTARY-DV-25'-2003

KSHYA TRA GHYA -FICTION-35MM-22'-2004

MAPA-FICTION-35MM-10'-2005

KA-VIDEO INSTALLATION-DV-45'-2006

KRAMASHA-FICTION-35MM-22'-2007


Contact
Amit Dutta : amitdutta33@...
Savita Singh: saviftii@...








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