Premendra Mazumder
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Premendra Mazumder | |
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| Occupation(s) | film -author, -curator, -society-activist, and -festival-consultant. |
| Years active | 1977 – present |
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]
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] and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade.[23] Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India.[24][25] The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.[26][27]
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),[28] Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff, College Street, Chitrabhavna, and Chitralipi (Kolkata), Deep Focus (Bangalore),.[29] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif,[30] Subversive[31] 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 [32] published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions [33]
- Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta[34]
- Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' [35] (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') [36][37]
- Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? [38]
- Author - Folk Songs of Bengal [39]
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
- Vice President - Federation of Film Societies of India[40]
- General Secretary - Fipresci-India, India Chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics[41][42][43]
- Secretary - Asia Pacific, International Federation of Film Societies (IFFS)[44][45]
- Program Director Third Eye Asian Film Festival[46]
- Festival Coordinator South Asian Short Film Festival[47]
- Chairman Kalinga Global Film Festival[48]
- Advisor Nepal International Film Festival[49]
- Editor ECineIndia[50]
- Chairman Bengal International Short Film Festival
- Festival Director Thrissur International Film Festival[51]