Mumbai Film Fest To Honor Luca Guadagnino & Mani Ratnam; BBC Buys Denmark’s ‘Prisoner’; Shirley Henderson Feted; ‘Promised Land’ Wins Big – Global Briefs
deadline.comMumbai Film Fest To Honor Luca Guadagnino & Mani Ratnam The Mumbai Film Festival will honor Luca Guadagnino and Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam at the upcoming fest, which runs from October 27 to November 5.
The former will win the Excellence in Cinema Award (International) while the latter is handed the South Asian version of the same award.
Both directors will attend the festival to receive their gongs and conduct masterclasses. The festival will also screen Ratnam’s recent Tamil-language historical dramas, Ponniyin Selvan: Part One & Two, and Luca Guadagnino’s Golden Globe-nominated I Am Love.
Previous receipients of Mumbai Film Festival’s Excellence in Cinema Awards include Darren Aronofsky, Sharmila Tagore, Fernando Meirelles, Jia Zhangke and Chen Kaige. BBC Buys Denmark’s ‘Prisoner’ Starring ‘The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl The BBC has acquired Danish drama Prisoner starring The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl.
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