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What did it take for Bollywood hits like Mary Kom and Kalki Koechlin’s new film Margarita with a Straw to have their world premiere at the most illustrious film festival, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)? The man with the foresight for premiering Oscar winning films like Dallas Buyer’s Club, Argo and Silver Linings Playbook, Artistic Director of TIFF, Cameron Bailey, will be on location in Mumbai to unravel his trade secrets on what it takes to make the cut. The Consulate General of Canada, Mumbai and Avid Learning are proud to host ‘Making the Cut Before the Red Carpet’. Cameron Bailey will be in conversation with Film Critic, Author and Journalist, Anupama Chopra, as they deconstruct all the elements that come together to make TIFF a mega film festival that shapes the future of cinema world-wide.
Date: Friday February 27th,2015
Time: Registration and Refreshments: 6:00PM - 6:30 PM
Discussion- 6:30PM onwards
Location: Essar House, 11, K.K Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai 400034
Entry: Free
About Avid Learning
AVID Learning, a public programing platform of the Essar Group. At AVID, our constant endeavor is to bring the best of Indian and International programs, projects and events in the fields of culture,art and heritage to our discerning audience. Since our inception in 2009, AVID has conducted over 400 programs and connected with more than 40,000 individuals, a mix of students, homemakers, corporates and creative enthusiasts. Driven by the belief that Learning Never Stops, AVID’s multiple formats like Workshops, Panel Discussions, Gallery Walkthroughs, and Festival Platforms create a dynamic and interactive atmosphere that stimulates intellectual and creative growth. Another very important aspect is that the AVID Team is highly driven and thrives on collaboration. AVID has a supported and partnered with various arts and cultural events, such as Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, India Art Fair, Art Dubai, Jaipur Literature Festival, Tata Literature Live, TEDx Gateway, Social Media Week, FOCUS festival and many more. AVID also developed intellectual properties Multipolis Mumbai, AVID Spectrum and AVID Ideology which are a series of conversation on how arts and culture are changing in the city. Avid Learning aims to spread Inspired Learning as wide as its resources allow. To get more details on AVID, would request you to visit our website www.avidlearning.in.
Consulate General of Canada, Mumbai
The Consulate General of Canada in Mumbai represents Canadian interests in Western India (Maharashtra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat). Canada and India have longstanding bilateral ties, built upon shared values of democracy and pluralism, and strong people-to-people links. The Consulate’s support of this visit is part of its ongoing promotion of the Canada-India Audiovisual Coproduction Treaty, which came into force on July 1, 2014. The Treaty will allow Canadian and Indian producers and filmmakers to combine their creative, technical and financial resources to create joint works.
Cameron Bailey
Cameron Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. He is responsible for the overall vision and execution of Festival programming, as well as maintaining relationships with the Canadian and international film industries. Toronto Life has named him one of Toronto's 50 Most Influential People three years in a row. Before taking up his current position at TIFF, he was a Festival programmer for eleven years, heading its Perspective Canada programme and founding its Planet Africa section.
Bailey has curated film series for Cinematheque Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, and Australia's Sydney International Film Festival. He has also served on awards juries in Canada and internationally, including in China, the U.S., Turkey, Greece, South Korea, Burkina Faso and Tanzania, and has been a guest speaker at several Canadian universities, the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Bailey currently sits on the Advisory Council for Western University's School for Arts and Humanities and for Haiti's Cine Institute film school.
Anupama Chopra Anupama Chopra is a film critic and book author. She has written about the Hindi film industry since 1993. Her work has been published extensively in India Today, India's largest English language magazine. She has also written about Bollywood for various international publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Variety and Sight & Sound. Anupama presented and scripted a weekly film review show called Picture This on NDTV 24/7, a leading news channel. She is the film critic for Hindustan Times, a contributing editor to Vogue (India) and a columnist for Mumbai Mirror.
Anupama currently scripts and anchors her film-based show ‘The Front Row’ on Star World.Last year, Penguin India published an anthology of Anupama's articles and reviews, titled First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches. Anupama has also written a biography of Shah Rukh Khan titled King of Bollywood -Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema. The book was the first Bollywood book to be published by a mainstream American publisher Warner Books. It was highly acclaimed and featured on the Editor's Choice List of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. The book was also translated into German, Indonesian and Polish