A 3 Day Tribute Film Festival - Celebrating the Cinema of Master Directors. July 19-21, 2016
Day 3 - Dedicated to Michael Cimino (February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016). Valedictory Address by Aparna Malladi, US based Film maker.
Screening of the movie THE DEER HUNTER followed by Discussion
This July month has proved bloody for the master directors and taken away the lives of Abbas Kiarostami (), Hector Bebenco () and Michael Cimino (February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016)from us. As a rich homage and tribute to these directors, we are coming together to talk about these directors life, movies and their impact on all cinema fraternity and life as well.
So here is a 3 Day Tribute Film Festival for the lovers of International Cinema in Hyderabad. We will be bringing one of their best films, showcasing and talking about them.
About Cimino: Michael Cimino was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. Cimino was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University in 1963. Beginning his career filming commercials, he moved to Los Angeles to take up screenwriting in 1971. After co-writing the script of Magnum Force and Silent Running, he wrote the preliminary script Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Clint Eastwood read the script and sent it to his personal production company, which allowed Cimino to direct the film. After its success, Cimino co-wrote, directed, and produced the 1978 Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter. His next film, Heaven's Gate (1980), proved to be a financial failure. Cimino directed four movies after Heaven's Gate, but none was as successful as The Deer Hunter.
Synopsis of the film: An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
About Aparna Malladi: Aparna Malladi is a Los Angeles based filmmaker. She learnt filmmaking at Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco where she was awarded the ‘STAND Grant’ for new directors to create the award winning short film ‘NUPUR (Ankle Bracelets)’, 2001. ‘NUPUR (Ankle Bracelets)’ screened at more than 25 international film festivals, won the Family Award at the USA Film Festival, Dallas and was invited to be included in ‘Best of the Fest’ at the Rochester International Film Festival. Aparna’s debut feature film ‘MITSEIN’, 2009 set in San Francisco and starring Smriti Mishra won the trophy for ‘Best Art Film’ at the Eugene International Film Festival, Oregon and had it’s international premiere at the Mumbai International Film Festival in the ‘Film India Worldwide’ section. Aparna Malladi’s second feature film ‘THE ANUSHREE EXPERIMENTS’ 2015 a light comedy starring UK based Telugu actor Ulrika Krishnamurti is due for release shortly. Aparna Malladi was invited to attend the prestigious Squaw Valley Writers Screenwriting program [founded by acclaimed screenwriter Gill Dennis]. She presently teaches Screenwriting and Cinematic Language at the Film Direction Department [founded by Dr. Gopalakrishna Paruchuri] at Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University. Aparna Malladi is also a prolific painter [Water Color on Paper], has shown her work in Los Angeles, Frankfurt and Hyderabad and has done an art residency at Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain. Aparna Malladi has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad and a Masters in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Tennessee.