PRASHANT RAI cinematographer

R(EVOLUTION) is still hot in in the European circuit.  After an amazing audience response at Karlovy Vary and Prague in 2008, the film has now been invited to the competitive section of XIV International TV Festival bar at Montenegro. Later the film would travel East to be screened at Tbilisi 10th International Film Festival, Georgia where it will be screened in the HORIZONS section.

Links -

Montenegro   -   www.tvfestbar.com

Georgia            -  www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge

PREVIOUS festivals

“R(evolution)” was presented as a ‘World Premiere’ at the 43rd  Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic), 4-12 July, 2008. It was officially selected and screened in the competitive section “Forum of Independents.” This is a Grade ‘A’ film festival, at the level of distinction of film festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. Festival website: www.kviff.com
 
“R(evolution)” was also officially selected and screened in the section “Indian Vista” at the 7th Third Eye Asian Film Festival, Mumbai, India, October16-23, 2008.
Festival website: www.affmumbai.com

With less than 2 days to go for sound mixing at SKYWALKER sounds, the news trickling in is that deluxe labs of US have cordially agreed to do the digital Intermediate of the film 11 Weeks at their premier digital lab facility EFILM and strike a 35mm print subsequently.

Some of the films done in the recent past by deluxe and EFILM are -

‘Inglorious Basterds’ by Quentin Tarantino, ‘Revolutionary Road’ by Sam Mendes, ‘Angels and Demons’ by Ron Howard, ‘Milk‘ by Gus Van Sant, ‘IronMan‘ by Jon Favreau, and ‘Juno‘ by Jason Reitman.

 http://www.efilm.com/filmography.php?pageID=1    (more info on EFILM’s filmography)

A memorable trip to Barrandov studio in the winters organised by Michael Gahut, my cinematography instructor. A state of the art film production facility, Barrandov is Europe’s biggest studio lot. If you are filming here you don’t need to step out anywhere else.

Of all the facilities what fascinated me the most was the hygiene of the film processing lab. Thermo sensors reading to hundredth of decimal in the tanks to maintain the accuracy of processing.

Casino Royale was being filmed at Barrandov those days. The Block behind me was where they had erected sets for interior shots. Ki Nan, self, and Teddy had a great day.

The walk back to the nearest tram station was memorable. Unfortunately, I can’t produce those jokes and songs for fear of lawsuit -My Name is ……I am no electrician!

Kinan and Teddy must have got it. Cheers guys.

Last year Jan I shot a 9 minute short called Bus for a New York Director, Pranav Vora. His concept was unique – there will be no cuts in the film. So, the whole film unfolds for 9 minutes without any cuts.

The film opened at MIAAC film festival last Nov. and was screened at Tribeca cinemas and Musuem for Arts and Design.  Hope it goes for more festivals.

To be frank, we didn’t realize there was anything funny while we were slogging to get ready to roll. The humour was realized over a couple of drinks in the red light bar a few nights later with my rum-buddy – Sid, the production designer.

cont…  go to filmmaking page

A mother walks with her baby past hutments along a narrow road that leads to the Candolim Beach.

The photograph was taken in the month of March, towards the end. The skies are very hot and clear. surprisingly, as a local development, it rained in the afternoon. when the clouds finally cleared around sunset – what I saw was a crimson red sky. It was quite an unusual sight in Goa for the month of March.

httpv://in.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iaVEZYet0

trying to get through a really slow connection to upload pictures of Kashmir.

refer ‘photography’ page

Srinagar greeted with a dry autumn and deserted streets. The tourists who thronged the markets and shikaras a few months back were missing. As a photographer I felt like the streets, the landscape too was barren, with a veneer of gritty yellowy dust all over compared to the lush greens three months back.

to read more click on the page – ‘11 Weeks’ – the film shoot. Part-1