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The International Film Festival of Colombo 2014, together with the Digital Film Academy at Sri Lanka Foundation is proud to announce that Colombo will play host to internationally acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas in September this year. In addition to screening a number of his multi-award winning films, he will also be conducting a two-day Master Class on Film Direction as part of the festival Master Class Program. Carlos Reygadas, Cannes Film Festival favourite, will visit Sri Lanka for the first time with his wife and film editor Natalia Lopez.
To learn more about IFFColombo 2014, its special guests, films and more, please visit www.iffcolombo.com.
The First International Film Festival of Colombo will take place from 2 to 7 September 2014. The festival will showcase a diverse array of films from close to 35 countries which will be screened at some of Colombo’s best cinemas including Regal Cinema, Empire Cinema (Arcade Independence Square), Majestic City Ultra and Tharangani (National Film Corporation) as well as Geothe Institut. All screenings are free of charge and are open to all appropriate audiences.
Master Class with Carlos Reygadas on Film Direction at IFFColombo 2014
The International Film Festival of Colombo 2014 together with the Digital Film Academy at the Sri Lanka Foundation is proud to announce that Cannes Award Winning Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas will conduct a two-day Master Class under the Master Class program at IFFColombo.
This is the first time that Carlos will conduct a Master Class in an Asian country and hence it will be a great learning opportunity for prospective filmmakers from the South Asian region. The two-day Master Class on Film Direction will be open for students and young filmmakers who are serious about direction. Out of the applicants from Sri Lanka and other South Asian countries, 40 participants will be selected following an interview process.
The workshop will be attended not only by Carlos Raygadas, but also his wife Natalia Lopez, who is a film editor. Sri Lanka’s own internationally recognised Director Vimukthi Jayasundara and Sri Lankan Cinematographer Dhanushka Gunathilake will also be a part of the panel. Together, they will be sharing their knowledge and experiences with the participants over the course of two days. The full Master Class program at IFFCOLOMBO will soon be announced. Visit www.iffcolombo.com for further information on the Festival.
Carlos Reygadas
Born in Mexico City in 1971, Carlos Reygadas became a lawyer in Mexico, specialised in armed conflict issues in London, and worked for the United Nations before starting his film career. Inspired by art cinema giants such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Reygadas made four short films in Belgium between 1998 and 1999.
He returned to Mexico in 2000 to shoot his first feature film, ‘Japón’ (Japan), which garnered international attention for its startling content and magnificent aesthetics. Japón’s raw depiction of sex and human frailty within a uniquely Mexican context grew into Reygadas’s fully fledged style with his second feature film, ‘Batalla en el cielo’ (Battle in Heaven, 2005), which competed for the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and won several other international prizes. His third film ‘Stellet Licht’ (Silent Light, 2007) pushed the familiar themes and aesthetics of his previous work onto new, breathtaking ground and won prestigious prizes across the globe, cementing Reygadas’s reputation as both a leader of contemporary Mexican cinema and a central auteur on the global art cinema stage.
Reygadas has further cultivated the current renaissance of Mexican cinema by producing a number of notable films by other burgeoning Mexican directors, contributing a short film to the 2010 compilation Revolución and embarking on his most ambitious project yet — 2012’s ‘Post Tenebras Lux’, which earned him the Best Director prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Carlos Reygadas Awards:
Cannes Film Festival
