The Indian Film Festival of Sydney – Bollywood and Beyond is a film festival held in Sydney. The director of festival is Mitu Bhowmick Lange .

History

The festival was founded in 2010 as '''Bollywood and Beyond . The festival has not been a regular event every year.

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is the named partner of the Indian Film Festival of Sydney. In May 2012, ''

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'' accused the Indian Film Festival of Sydney of programming overlap with the

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funded

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is a Victoria State Government-funded annual festival based in Melbourne founded in 2012. It is presented by Film Victoria, and the provider is chosen through a tender process. The current tender prov ...

(IFFM); they stated that many guests and films in the privately organised Indian Film Festival of Sydney, have also appeared at the tax payer funded IFFM.

Festival Guests

WIFFS 2011 featured as its opening night film ''

No One Killed Jessica ''No One Killed Jessica'' is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed and written by Raj Kumar Gupta. It stars Vidya Balan and Rani Mukerji in lead roles, with Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub and Myra Karn in supporting roles. The fi ...

'', with the film's director

Raj Kumar Gupta Raj Kumar Gupta is an Indian film writer and director, known for his work in Hindi cinema. He made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed '' Aamir'' (2008). He then went on to write and direct ''No One Killed Jessica'' (2011), base ...

as a festival guest. WIFFS 2012 featured guests

Malaika Arora Malaika Arora (born 23 October 1973) is an Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ and a television personality who appears in Hindi-language films. She made her debut as a film producer in 2008, with her former husband Arbaaz Khan, founding the co ...

Khan and film-maker

Rituparno Ghosh Rituparno Ghosh (31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist. After pursuing a degree in economics, he started his career as a creative artist at an advertising agency. He received recognition for his ...

, with the opening night film being Ghosh's '' Chitrangada.'' WIFFS 2016 featured ''

Angry Indian Goddesses ''Angry Indian Goddesses'' is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Pan Nalin and produced by Gaurav Dhingra and Pan Nalin under the banner Jungle Book Entertainment. It stars Sandhya Mridul, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Sarah-Jane Di ...

,'' with actors

Tannishtha Chatterjee Tannishtha Chatterjee is an Indian actress and director best known in the west for her performance in the British film ''Brick Lane'' (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name Rituparna Sengupta Rituparna Sengupta is an Indian actress and producer who is known for her work in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema. One of the most successful actresses of Bengali cinema, she rode the crest of her box office success in the late 1990s. She won ...

and director Srijit Mukherji in attendance. WIFFS 2017 opening night film was the Australian premiere of

Onir Onir (born Anirban Dhar, 1 May 1969) is an Indian film and TV director, editor, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film '' My Brother…Nikhil'', based on the life of Dominic d'Souza, starring Sanjay Suri and Purab Kohli ''i ...

's ''

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'', which was presented by the director and actor

Raveena Tandon Raveena Tandon (born 26 October 1972) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. The daughter of director Ravi Tandon, she made her acting debut in the 1991 action film '' Patthar Ke Phool'', which won her the Filmfare Award for New Face ...

References

External links

Official Site
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