'Avatar' still China's favorite despite Oscar snub

Shanghai
Chinese netizens are in an uproar over the film's failure to take the Oscar’s top prize On Sunday Chinese netizens were glued to their sets for the 82nd Academy Awards. Not to see if HBO’s documentary “ China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of ...
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Mumbai International Film Festival starts today

Mumbai
And in other Mumbai news: Microsoft and IPL team Mumbai Indians tie the knot and the women's commission wants female tourists to feel safer in India Run by India's Films Division, MIFF may not be slickly marketed, but it's a mecca for lovers of ...
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Daily Hitlist: Haagen Dazs and homosexuality

Mumbai
Plus: Meet Raghava KK one of the brightest stars on the contemporary Indian art map Raghava KK's back with the impressions of his new environment. (Image: Untitled, Raghava KK, From Brooklynartproject.com) off Must Do: Indian painter Raghava KK who ...
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'Diamond in the Dunes' -- documentary explores baseball and racism in Xinjiang

Shanghai
A young Muslim Uyghur leaves his village to play college baseball and accidentally becomes a star Sandlot special: The Xinjiang University squad preps for a game with Qinghai Tibetan College. Although baseball hasn’t been a purely American sport for ...
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Interview: Firebrand filmmaker Anand Patwardhan

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Anand Patwardhan It's been seven years since his documentary "War and Peace" took apart Indian militarism, but the 59-year-old director isn't through with the subject Anand Patwardhan at home in Mumbai. Anand Patwardhan asks questions ordinary ...
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Documentary films in Mumbai get big screen festival status

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Thanks to a three-way tie-up, Mumbai’s first serious documentary festival debuts this October "One Crazy Ride" is shot without a back-up vehicle or film crew, in parts of India hardly seen, filmed or explored, say the filmmakers. It’s a bit loosely ...
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