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. At the

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in 2015, he spoke on the 'Politics of Film and Social Dynamics' and on 'Trends in South Asian Independent Cinema' He has conducted film workshops in Kabul, Afghanistan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 2019 He worked for the International Critics' Week

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(since 2006), Cairo International Film Critics Week (since its inception) and several other film festivals as consultant and advisor. He presented the Celebration Ceremony of 100 Years of Indian Cinema in

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(May 2013). He has inaugurated various film societies, and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade. Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India. The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.

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),

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(Delhi), Filmbuff,

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, Chitrabhavna, and Chitralipi (Kolkata),

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(Bangalore),. The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif (Paris), Subversive 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 published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions *Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta *Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' (2010) *Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema' (2016) *Co-author -

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Handbook of Indian Cinemas (chapter titled, 'Music in Mainstream Indian Cinema') *Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? *Author - Folk Songs of Bengal

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

Offices hold

*Vice President -

Federation of Film Societies of India Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) is the umbrella body of film-screening societies in India. FFSI is currently a member of the International Federation of Film Society that has its Central Office in Paris. The international organisatio ...

*General Secretary - Fipresci-India, India Chapter of the

International Federation of Film Critics The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...

*Secretary - Asia Pacific, International Federation of Film Societies (IFFS) *Program Director Third Eye Asian Film Festival *Festival Coordinator South Asian Short Film Festival *Chairman Kalinga Global Film Festival *Advisor

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*Editor ECineIndia *Chairman Bengal International Short Film Festival *Festival Director Thrissur International Film Festival

Jury member (incomplete)

* Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition (India, 2004) * Mumbai International Film Festival (MAMI, Mumbai, India 2005) * Mumbai International Film Festival for Shorts Documentaries & Animations (MIFF; 2006) *

Kara Film Festival The Karachi International Film Festival, simply known as the Kara Film Festival (Urdu: ''کارا فلم فیسٹیول'' or ''کارا فلم'') was founded in 2001 by the KaraFilm Society, reportedly in response to the declining state of th ...

(Karachi, 2006) *

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(India, 2008) * Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films (Egypt, 2008) * Jeevika Asian Livelihood Documentary Competition (New Delhi, 2010) *Short & Documentary Film Festival Hyderabad (2010) *

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International Film Festival Almaty(Kazakhstan, 2012) * Abu Dhabi Film Festival

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(Abu Dhabi, 2012) * Evora International Film Festival for Shorts & Documentaries FIKE (Portugal, 2013) *

* Regard: Saguenay International Short Film Festival (Canada, 2016) *

Cairo International Film Festival The Cairo International Film Festival ( ar, مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي الدولي) is an annual internationally accredited film festival held in Cairo Opera House. It was established in 1976 and has taken place every year sin ...

(Cairo, Egypt 2016) *

SiGNS Film Festival SiGNS Film Festival is one of the short film and documentary film festivals in India. The tenth edition was conducted in October 2018 in association with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Festival organization FFSI-Keralam is one of the five chapters o ...

(Cochi, India, 2016) * Jaffna International Cinema Festival (Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2017) * Busan International Film Festival (Bushan, South Korea, 2017) *

Bengaluru International Film Festival The Bengaluru International Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Bengaluru, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, which previews films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1996, Suchitra B ...

(Bangalore, India, 2018) * Ismailia International Film Festival (Ismailia, Egypt, 2018) * Slemani International Film Festival (Slemania, Kurdistan, Iraq, 2018) * Third Eye Asian Film Festival (Mumbai, India, 2018) *

(Kathmandu, 2019) * International Film Festival of Kerala (Trivandrum, India, 2019) * Kalinga Global Film Festival (Bhubaneshwar, India, 2020) * Aurangabad International Film Festival (Aurangabad, India, 2020) * International Film Festival of Thrissur (Thrissur, India, 2020) * Ottawa Indian Film Festival (Ottawa, Canada, 2021) * Siliguri International Short Film Festival (Siliguri, India, 2021) * Auroville Film Festival (Auroville, Pondicherry, 20222)

External links

Archives of Federation of Film Societies of IndiaPremendra Mazumder at FIPRESCI

References

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