India’s Ficci Frames conference, which is celebrating its 15th edition (March 12-14), has confirmed that Australia will be the partner country this year.
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
- 2/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
India’s Ficci Frames conference, which is celebrating its 15th edition (March 12-14), has confirmed that Australia will be the partner country this year.
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
- 2/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Halfire-Core Entertainment, the joint production and financing venture between TV producer Noreen Halpern‘s Halfire Entertainment and Core Media Group led by Marc Graboff, has added two to its exec ranks. Stephanie Fontana, niece to Borgias and Oz creator Tom Fontana, will serve as Director of Development and Production based in Halfire-core’s La outpost. The 18-year TV development and production vet’s credits include the CW’s Reaper, ABC’s Desperate Housewives, and HBO’s Oz. Also joining the company is Toronto-based Ben Murray, who will serve as Director of Business Development after runs as director of biz affairs and development at Serendipity Point Films and as a programmer for the Toronto Film Festival. The pair will help develop Halfire-core’s upcoming slate including half-hour comedy Working The Engels written and exec produced by Katie and Jane Ford and exec produced by Howard Busgang, Tom Nursall and Halpern. Fontana...
- 8/12/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Toronto - Canadian indie producer Serendipity Point Films has unveiled a series of promotions, including Mark Musselman being named executive vp after overseeing the indie producer’s business affairs since 1999. Ben Murray, who joined the company in 2007, is promoted to director of business affairs and development. And Serendipity chairman Robert Lantos (Barney's Version) named his son, Ari Lantos, as vp of production, in charge of the producer’s film and TV slate, while Aida Tannyan, who has been in charge of finance since 2000, becomes vp of finance. Ari Lantos earlier served as producer on earlier features like Real Time and
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- 6/28/2012
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Heartsounds’ 2010 debut, Until We Surrender, singer-guitarists Ben Murray and Laura Nichol sought to distance themselves from their past as death-metal musicians. And they succeeded. But where Surrender roars with open-throated pop-punk passion, the group’s new album, Drifter, feels clenched and technical. It’s as if, after proving themselves unfussy enough to play punk, Murray and Nichol felt the misguided need to prove their worth as full-on shredders again. Metallic pop-punk, of course, is as old and honorable as Dag Nasty. Drifter, though, is no Can I Say. “Race To The Bottom” unfortunately embodies its title by racing ...
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