A huge collection of Bollywood films is online on Babelgum. You can watch over 100 hours of Bollywood content for free on the new Colors of Bollywood channel. A comprehensive library of the best titles in Bollywood Cinema encompassing all genres: heartwarming love stories, foot-tapping musicals, rib-tickling comedies, racy thrillers, pulsating action flicks, heart-stopping horror films, high voltage dramas… usually served all together in one savory, enticing, hugely entertaining concoction that you just can’t resist. That is the magic of Bollywood!
Films released include:
The content, provided by distributor WEG India Pictures, will help the new Colors of Bollywood channel become one of the best Internet sources for Bollywood movies outside the Indian subcontinent and will be accessible for free.
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The Pocket Crossborder
THE POCKET CROSSBORDER (France)
An ad for the quick and easy and probably quite fun way of crossing a border – be a human cannonball. But don’t try this at home or on a border you can legitimately get across because helmet and armour are not included, ok? This film rocketed in the Babelgum audience’s views.
Credits:
Director, Writer and Producer – Ambroise Becchio
Actor – Nicolas Russeil
Other – Linda Brisson, Laurent Gilli, Charlotte Graillat
Filmmaker Bio:
Ambroise Becchio was born on 17th January 1981 in the suburbs of Paris (Saint Maurice), France. His father is half Italian and his mother was a Russian refugee. He is bilingual in French and Russian. He developed a love for cinema and theatre as a young boy. He was amazed by the movies of Chaplin and would try to make people laugh by imitating him. When he was around 15 he began using his father’s Hi 8 video camera, and never looked back. He originally wanted to become a doctor but was so passionate about filmmaking that he failed his medical exams and enrolled in the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français, where he graduated in 2003. He works with a group of filmmaking friends and together they write, shoot and edit with a passion.
MOUTHFACE
MOUTHFACE (Belgium)
And what if you had three mouths instead of one? MOUTHFACE is a music video from Michael Fakesch (Funkstorung). Music = weird funky electronica. Video = web-cam style freaky self-portrait.
Credits:
Director and actor – Antonin De Bemels
Other – Michael Fakesch
Filmmaker Bio:
Antonin De Bemels is a video and audio artist from Brussels, Belgium. His main areas of interest are movement and the human body, and the dynamic relationship between sounds and images. Since 1997, he has made around 15 experimental short films, and has also created video backgrounds and soundtracks for contemporary dance pieces. “Mouthface” was created at the request of Michael Fakesch and the Fluctuating Images gallery in Stuttgart, Germany, and is about to be released on a DVD compilation, along with creations by other visual artists.
GREATER – DEFEATING AIDS (Italy)
This is billed as a non-documentary and watching the way it pulls together various stories about a group of Ugandan women who are HIV positive, we soon realise that we’re seeing life there in a way we might not in the mainstream. Inspiring characters who are full of a zest for life tell us their stories, show us their dances and it feels by the end as though the filmmaker has been the vehicle by which we enter this particular world, rather than the person telling us how to perceive it.
Credits:
Filmmaker, Writer and Producer – Emmanuel Exitu
Filmmaker Bio:
Emmanuel Exitu was born in Italy, in Bologna. He moved to Rome where he worked as a screen writer. He also worked as a cinematographer for the Teatro di Documenti founded by Luciano Damiani, Luca Ronconi and Giuseppe Sinopoli. He is the director of “La Stella del Re” produced by Edwige Fenech and based on his omonymous novel. His first documentary, “Greater – Schiacciare l’AIDS” about Meeting Point International, founded by a nurse, Rose Busingye, and set in the slums of Kampala (Uganda), was awarded the Audience Award at the New York Aids Film Festival in 2007.
Quidam Dégomme (A sheep on a roof)
QUIDAM DÉGOMME (A SHEEP ON A ROOF) (France)
A man is confronted with the change of his day-to-day existence following the landing of a sheep on the roof of the house opposite. A surreal sequence of events unfolds, set to a foot-tapping soundtrack. The grey Paris metro takes on a whole new lease of life… but how does our main character react?
Credits:
Director and Writer – Rémy Schaepman
Producer – Georges Nawrocki
Other – Daniel Capeille
Filmmaker Bio:
Rémy Schaepman was born in 1986 in the south of France. He is currently studying animation art at Gobelins, l’Ecole de l’Image, in Paris. A fan of Paul Grimault, Nick Park, Wallace Gromit, Miyazaki, Pixar, Jacques Tati and Sean Penn, he loves seeing his drawings move on the screen and hearing the audience laugh out loud.
Without Words
WITHOUT WORDS (Ireland)
We live in a world where technology has given us the tools to communicate but not the ability. Without Words is a very personal film about two close friends who have to pay a very high price for our failure, as a society, to connect.
Credits:
Director – Brian Deane
Writers – Brian Deane, Aine Young
Producer – Evelyn O’Reilly
Actors – Larry McGowran, Robert Kelly
Other – Katie Looney
Publisher – John Huston School of Film and Digital Media
Filmmaker Bio:
Brian is a young Writer/Director from Cork in Ireland. Without Words is his first film and deals with a topic that’s very important to him. He is a recent graduate from the Huston School of Film and Digital Media in Galway in the West of Ireland. He is currently working on a number of projects including a short musical set in the West of Ireland.
Officer Down
OFFICER DOWN (USA)
For non-believers, this is a compelling story about a bad cop turned good. For believers, it’s about faith working miracles. Whatever their religious leanings, this film scored so highly with Babelgum audiences that you could hardly see it for all the positive posts popping up on the screen.
Credits:
Director – Richard Recco
Producer – Patrick Curd
Filmmaker Bio:
Richard Recco has been a professional semi-figurative abstract painter since the age of 22. He graduated in screen-writing and directing from the New York Film Academy in 1995. Richard wrote 3,000 Miles To Graceland, a sixty million dollar action film released in 2001 which starred Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Christian Slater and Courtney Cox. He has several projects currently in development, including “Clark Street,” a television series that takes place in Chicago during prohibition. Officer Down is Richard’s directorial debut.
SOTTO IL MIO GIARDINO (a.k.a. UNDER MY GARDEN)
SOTTO IL MIO GIARDINO (UNDER MY GARDEN) (Italy)
Marco, a 10-year old boy with a passion for insects, is convinced that his neighbour has killed his wife and has buried her under his garden, the evidence being a large ant-nest he has been carefully examining for a while. He decides to carry out some investigations but only reveals his thoughts to his little friend, Sara.
Credits:
Director and Writer – Andrea Lodovichetti
Writers – Luca Caprara, Roberto Santini
Actors – Stefano Bottone, Alessandra Pellegrino, Max Amato, Katia Nani, Dino Spinella, Kasia Zurakowska, Gisella Spinelli
Producer – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Filmmaker Bio:
Andrea Lodovichetti was born in Fano (Italy) in 1976. He graduated in Film Directing from the Experimental Centre of Cinematography – National School of Cinema in Rome. He has been working with director Paolo Sorrentino since 2005. He is the director of “L’Amico di Famiglia” (Family Friend) and “Il Divo” (in competition at Cannes this year). He has written and directed several shorts and won international awards from all over the world. In particular, he was awarded the first prize and best short prize for “Untitled, Storie senza Nome” (a.k.a. Untitled, Stories without a Name) respectively at the European Emerging Film Makers Festival and the Virginia International Film Festival in 2003. Sotto il mio Giardino (Under my Garden) (2007) was one of the “most debated films” in the “on the lot” competition organised by Steven Spielberg. Founder with Luca Caprara of Lobecafilm, he has produced and shot several spots and documentaries.
Tonight in Cannes the winners of the Babelgum Online Film Festival will be announced. You can follow the ceremony on Twitter where Guido and others from Babelgum staff will be posting pics.
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“War, what is it good for?” sang Bruce Springsteen many years ago and we’re still waiting for a good answer. As conflicts all over the world provide constant fodder for the news, in the final week of voting for the Babelgum Online Film Festival, here are several films that confront the theme without pulling any punches.
Parallels draws chilling similarities between the Vietnam and Iraq wars through the personal stories of two veterans. Justice Accomplished drew some strong reactions from the BOFF audience in its ferocious condemnation of President Bush and his administration by portraying them as rapists. Watch, listen and take courage from the fact that if nothing else, these conflicts bring together like-minded people from all over the world on Pangea Day, May 10th.
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Watch this space for individual interviews with some of the directors of the films featured here.