Premendra Mazumder

Premendra Mazumder is a film -critic, -author, -curator, -consultant, -society-activist, -festival-organizer, and -festival-consultant. He has participated in several round-table discussions, conducted workshops, delivered lectures, and presented papers on various topics at national and international conferences.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Premendra Mazumder
Occupationfilm -author, -curator, -society-activist, and -festival-consultant.
Years active1977 – present

At the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival in 2015, he spoke on the 'Politics of Film and Social Dynamics' and on 'Trends in South Asian Independent Cinema' [9][10]

He has conducted film workshops in Kabul, Afghanistan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 2019[11]

He worked for the International Critics' Week Cannes (since 2006),[12] Cairo International Film Critics Week [13] (since its inception) and several other film festivals as consultant and advisor.[14][15]

He presented the Celebration Ceremony of 100 Years of Indian Cinema in Croatia (May 2013).[16]

He has inaugurated various film societies,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade.[24] Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India.[25][26] The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.[27][28]

Writings on cinema

Premendra Mazumder's thoughts on cinema have been published in a variety of serious Indian film magazines; daily newspapers; and film journals - Screen, Rupwani, and DNA (Mumbai),[29] Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff, College Street, Chitrabhavna, and Chitralipi (Kolkata), Deep Focus (Bangalore),.[30] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif (Paris),[31] Subversive [32][33] Cinema (Portugal), Film Realm (Cairo), Cinesith (Colombo), 16mm (Dhaka), and Deepwani (Port Blair). He is also the Indian correspondent of the Cannes Critics Week.

  • Editorial Board - Dictionnaire du cinéma asiatique [34] published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions [35]
  • Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta [36]
  • Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' [37] (2010)
  • Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema' (2016)
  • Co-author - Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (chapter titled, 'Music in Mainstream Indian Cinema') [38][39]
  • Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? [40]
  • Author - Folk Songs of Bengal [41]

Publications

He writes essays, short stories, and plays. His published books are:

  • Prekshapat (Collection of Essays, 1984)
  • Hundred Years of Indian Cinema (1996)
  • Samay Ashamayer Natak (Collection of Plays, 2005)
  • Victoriar Pori Ebong Onyanya Galpo (Anthology of Short Stories, 2020) ISBN 978-93-81686-78-2

As a playwright he has five major plays to his credit.

Offices hold

Jury member (incomplete)

References
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  2. https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/entertainment/2019/11/02/ces12-as-giff.html
  3. "Festivals bring short films back in limelight - Times of India". indiatimes.com.
  4. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/iffk-2019-the-grammar-of-good-cinema/article30270390.ece
  5. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/global-campaign-to-restore-satyajit-ritwik-mrinals-ancestral-homes-in-bangladesh/articleshow/73817163.cms
  6. https://www.dhakatribune.com/showtime/2019/10/13/jaya-s-bini-sutoy-selected-at-international-film-festival-of-kerala
  7. https://dhakatranslationfest.org/premendra-mazumder/
  8. https://thenewsmill.com/festivals-help-promoting-film-as-an-art-form-experts-at-giff/
  9. "KiMFF receives warm welcome". ekantipur.com.
  10. "Panel Discussion – Trends in South Asian Independent Cinema". kimff.org.
  11. https://didoriff.tj/resume_of_premendra_nath_mazumder_en_2
  12. http://www.semainedelacritique.com/images/DOSSIER_DE_PRESSE_version_ang.pdf
  13. "Cairo International Film Critics Week". cairofilmcriticsweek.com.
  14. https://www.newagebd.net/article/110315/curtain-lifts-on-4th-sylhet-film-festival
  15. http://indianfilmfestivalboston.com/team/
  16. http://www.indija.hr/spaw2/uploads/files/100%20godina%20indiskog%20filma%20knjizica%20KB%20web-2.pdf
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  24. "Cine Club celebrates 50 golden years". telegraphindia.com.
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  29. "'Tagore was inescapable' - Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dnaindia.com. 11 August 2006.
  30. http://www.deepfocusonline.com/about/team/
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  33. //www.archive.subversivefestival.com/subff2009/index_det_det.php?tekst_id=515&spn=1
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  38. Gokulsing, K. Moti; Dissanayake, Wimal (17 April 2013). Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. Routledge. ISBN 9781136772917 – via Google Books.
  39. "Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (Hardback) - Routledge". routledge.com.
  40. Development, Chits. "FILM SOCIETY MOVEMENT ? A SUCCESS OR FAILURE ? Ebook by Premendra Mazumder". ideaindia.com.
  41. Mazumder, Premendra (11 August 2011). "FOLK SONGS OF BENGAL". IDEAINDIA.COM – via Amazon.
  42. https://www.dhakatribune.com/showtime/2020/02/01/ffsi-demand-restoration-of-ancestral-homes-of-satyajit-ray-ritwik-ghatak-mrinal-sen
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  49. https://www.sasff.online/contact-us/
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