Anu Rangachar Appointed Artistic Director as IFFLA and India Center Foundation Merge – Global Bulletin
17.01.2024 - 06:07
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and The India Center Foundation, two non-profit organizations working with South Asian film in the U.S., have agreed to merge. Already long-time collaborators, IFFLA and ICF will, among other things, work closely to incubate and launch an industry development program to showcase the next generation of South Asian talent to studios, funders and media executives. “We saw an opportunity to scale our work nationally as one of the leading supporters of emerging creative talent in the diaspora.
By joining forces with IFFLA we can bring much needed resources to support the stories that need to be told in the media. Our stories,” said Priya Giri Desai, a co-founder of ICF. “[ICF] have been a financial and creative partner to IFFLA over numerous festivals already, which makes this a natural fit.
I have no doubt that we can bring even greater impact together.” said Christina Marouda, IFFLA Board Chair. Along with the merger announcement, the organizations revealed that the next edition of IFFLA will run June 27-30 with Anu Rangachar as its artistic director. Rangachar currently heads the international program at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, is involved in coproduction of arthouse Indian independent films and is a distributor of arthouse world cinema titles in the U.S.
The Melbourne International Film Festival has appointed Damien Hodgkinson to the newly created role of CEO.
He takes up the position from March. For the past 11 years Hodgkinson has headed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival as its executive director. Before that, he was CEO of Melbourne Fringe Festival. He will be expected to help shape the future of the festival, discovering and
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