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'Indian Film Festival – Bollywood and Beyond'  is proudly brought to you by MIND BLOWING FILMS  
Mind Blowing Films is a Melbourne based film house .
It is the leading distributor of Indian films in Australia and New Zealand and also provides local production support to Indian films shot in Australia and NZ.
 
 
Festival Director  
Mitu Bhowmick Lange
Mitu Bhowmick-Lange is currently the  Director Mind Blowing Films , a film production / distribution company which specialises in Indian films.

Mitu worked in Bombay for 6 years directing several TV shows including entertainment, news and fashion magazine programs and a daily breakfast show for most of the leading channels including BBC World, Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony TV.
Mitu wrote and directed the multi award-winning documentary, Watch without Prejudice, on the impact of violence on the children of Kashmir.

Since living in Australia, Mitu has brought in and produced several Indian productions to Australia, including producing 13 episodes shot in Australia of India’s number 1 daily television serial Kahani Ghar Ghar Kii (similar to Neighbours), Bollywood film Koi Aap Saa and blockbusters like Salaam Namaste , Chak De India , Bachna Aye Haseeno , Main Aurr Mrs Khanna , Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic , Love Aaj kal and several leading television commercials with international cricketers made for the Indian market. She is presently working on the four part doco - series about ' New India'.

Mitu also represents the prestigious International Film Festival of India held annually in Goa as their curator for films from Australia and New Zealand.
 
 
Festival Co Director  
John Molloy
John graduated from the Flinders University Drama Centre in 1994. He worked in South Australian theatre until the year 2000 as and actor and producer, most notably as one of the Founding Members and first General Manager of Brink Productions. In this role he collaborated with The Adelaide International Arts Festival, State Theatre of South Australia, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St. Theatre and the Australian Dance Theatre.

John is now a Producer at Molloy Boy Productions an independent production company that produces film, television and radio for the Australian market. 

In film he has worked on the films Crackerjack, Bad Eggs and BoyTown. He has recently worked as a Consulting Producer on the Indian feature films Me & Mrs Khanna in Australia Love Aaj Kal in the United States. In television he has worked on The Nation, Love is a Four Letter Word and The Mick Molloy Show. In 2009 John was Series Producer of John Safran’s Race Relations for Princess Pictures and the ABC.

John is a partner in Mind Blowing Films , a boutique distribution company for Indian films in Australia and New Zealand

 
 
Festival Co Director  
Bidyut Dumra
His career in media started in 1995 in India while auditioning as a contestant for a TV quiz-show and ending up as a question writer instead. He hesitantly resolved himself to the fact that his place in the industry seemingly belonged behind the camera rather than in front of it. From TV Production he eventually made the leap to full-feature films in 2005, since then working on productions, such as, 'Salaam Namaste', 'Chak De India', 'Bachna Eh Haseeno' etc.

With corporate experience in multinational media companies, such as, Fremantle Productions and Village Roadshow, he is now a Director at Mind Blowing Films and is based in Hong Kong. He is still waiting for a breakthrough character & script to propel his acting ambitions.
 
 
Festival Curator  
Onir
Born in 1969, in a small town in Bhutan, "Onir", as he was to became known in India, was fascinated with film-making from a young age and so, while graduating his literature studies at Jadavpur University he simultaneously attended the film institute in Kolkata. He won a scholarship to study film in Berlin after which he worked in Mumbai as an editor and director of corporate videos, serials, music videos and movies.
His directorial debut, ‘My Brother... Nikhil’ (2005), dealt with themes like AIDS and homosexuality and his latest film ‘I Am’ consists of four short stories exploring themes including child abuse and same-sex relationships and was awarded the Triangle Media Group Honorary Award last year.

Onir is an inspirational film-maker who tells stories close to his heart that mostly explore the path less trodden.
 
 
Festival Curator  
Megha Ramaswamy
 Megha Ramaswamy is a writer and programmer based in Mumbai. 
She was awarded a grant by the British Council for her work as a screenwriter as part of the Indian Screen Writer’s workshop in 2008. Megha was also shortlisted for the Maishaa screenwriter’s lab, hosted by Mira Nair in 2005. Megha has worked as both a writer and researcher on several films and documentaries including TISS’s Naatha, and Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvette.

She recently was the programmer for the South Asian International Film Festival 2010 held in New York. 
 
 
Festival Co-OrdinatOR INDIA  
Natascha Charak
 Natascha Charak is a Bombay based freelance professional for Indian feature films. She passed out of the New York Film Academy in 2005 and has since been working on several commercial bollywood films. She has worked as an assistant to directors like Hollywood Director Willard Carroll, Rohan Sippy and Nikhil Advani. Some of the features Natascha worked on were Marigold, Bluffmaster, Salaam e ishq and Chandni Chowk to China.

Natascha has been part of the Indian Film Festial since 2007.

 
 
Festival Design
VISHAKHA BHUWANIA  
 
 
Festival WEBSITE
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Festival TEAM
Achala Datar
Natascha Charak
Benu Bindra
Jenny Mapara
Gemma Mumford
Andy Roberts
Jake Ryan
Leanne Tonkes
Rose Damon
Viney Shah
Luke Bremner
Ling Ang
Wicky Omar Khan		  
 
 
CREATIVE TEAM
IAN ANDERSON
PAUL CROSS		  
 
 
Festival Trailer
Akshat Gupt
Prachi Vasant		  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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