Aruna Vasudev
Aruna Vasudev ( Hindi : अरुणा वासुदेव , Aruṇā Vāsudev , * 1936 ) is an Indian film critic, author, editor and festival organizer.
Life
Vasudev worked as an assistant in the mask of the Indian television Doordarshan in the late 1950s . In the 1960s she attended film courses in New York - where her father was transferred to the UN - and Paris and made several short documentaries on her return to India.
In 1988 she founded the quarterly film magazine "Cinemaya", which focuses on Asian film and is the editor of it. Since 1990 she has been president of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC), which awards NETPAC prizes at numerous international film festivals . Vasudev has been a jury member at several film festivals including Cannes , Locarno , Thessaloniki , Singapore , Fajr , Karlovy Vary (1997), Istanbul and Hawaii . To promote Asian films, she initiated the annual Osian's Cinefan film festival in 1999 and is its director. She is the author of essays and two books on Indian film and the editor of many other books on film and television. Aruna Vasudev is one of the trustees of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust in India.
She has received national and international state cultural awards for her work, such as the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2002) and the Italian Star of Solidarity (2004). In 2006 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cinemanila Film Festival in Manila, Philippines .
Vasudev was married to the diplomat Sunil Roy Chowdhury ; their daughter married Varun Gandhi in March 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://rrtd.nic.in/Film%20Bulletin-Dec02.html
- ↑ Received the star of solidarity
- ↑ Film critic Aruna Vasudev's daughter, ... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rawnewsshow/6637450.cms ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in The Times of India
- ↑ Varun to tie knot in February / March in Deccan Herald of September 28, 2010
Web links
- Short biography at asiapacificfilms.com
- Aruna Vasudev at Open Library
- Riding on a anew wave July 16, 2005 in The Telegraph
- The Power of the Short Film by Aruna Vasudev in The Asian Age
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vasudev, Aruna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | अरुणा वासुदेव; Aruṇā Vāsudev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian film critic, author, editor and festival organizer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1936 |