Jerzy Kular is a veteran in the European animation film industry, with more than 30 years of experience. The Polish-French Kular was educated in Canada and Germany, and has collaborated on several films, including working on visual effects with world-renowned directors like Roman Polanski, Constantin Costa-Gavras and Francois Truffaut. His works also include innovative projects in motion rides, 3D shows for theme parks, films for science centers and live shows.
Shobana Kubendran loves human genes -- understanding them, how they work, even how they carry disorders. And she loves the ability to talk and advise families on the potential medical problems that children can inherit from their parents or other family members.
A couple that got married with a unique ceremony in Kolkata speak to Aseem Chhabra about the moving experience.
3 Idiots has so much promise and it holds on to that every so often during its nearly three-hour long run. But as often happens in Bollywood, ambitious projects led with good intentions, and packaged neatly with a ton of talent and smart brains, are compromised.
James Cameron has proved once again that he's one of the best directors there is.
An Indiana court is expected to announce the judgment in the case involving Vikram Buddhi, a former PhD student at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, on Friday.
Shekhar Kapur's segment in New York, I Love You -- 12 short films celebrating the energy of the city, stands out above all the other works.
I have a confession to make as a film journalist. I am a real sucker for movie scenes in which actors are running from a situation and land straight into a wall, a pole or any other man made structure. Naturally such collusion would be very painful, but I find the humor in it irresistible. There is one such moment in Cameron Crowe's brilliant Almost Famous where a clueless Fairuza Balk is running after a bus carrying Patrick Fugit and she slams straight into a wall.
Slumdog is a hopeful look at today's India. It is a powerful reflection of a country that was tied up in shackles with flawed socialist visions. Everybody -- from the slum dwellers to the middle class young adults who work in call centers to the rich elite and even the gangsters -- wants a piece of the booming India, And nothing seems to be able to stop them.
Four Hasidic rabbinical students at the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, remember slain Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah.
A skinny African-American man, with goofy ears and Hussein as a middle name is going to become our 44th president. It is a win for all of us-- African-Americans, whites, Latinos, Asians, men, women and children, old and young, straight and gays. We should rejoice at this historic moment.
The lovely actress will be seen in Shamin Sharif's A World Unseen and I Can't Think Straight, releasing in November.
Scriptwriter Tracey Jackson talks about The Other End of the Line starring Jesse Metcalf and Shriya Saran, and why the Amrican way of looking at India should change.
The joy that is the trademark of Diwali in India is missing in US celebrations of the festival
The Telluride festival -- held a week before the much larger event in Toronto, heralds the beginning of the fall film season in North America, showing a small selection of films -- Hollywood and international -- a number of which end up creating the buzz for the Oscar season.
British-Indian filmmaker Bharat Nalluri talks about his new film, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
If the film keeps our interest, it is because of the occasional comic moments and mostly since Kumar is there to carry the burden of a poorly written script. And he does it with a smile on his face. He is having fun entertaining us -- even when the film is going nowhere.
The film is flat, and it does no justice to its lead actor Mike Myers' reputation of a terrific entertainer.
Filmmaker Sarah Gavron tells us how she made Brick Lane with Tannishtha Chatterjee and Satish Kaushik.
For everyone, who has had unresolved issues with their fathers, Indian-German filmmaker Anand Tucker has a perfect Father's Day gift, albeit an emotionally charged one. His new film When Did You Last See Your Father? is a blessing of a film -- a heart wrenching tale about a man coping with his father's terminal illness, while coming to terms with his difficult teenage and adult years, aggravated by an overbearing parent.
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