film -author, -curator, -society-activist, and -festival-consultant.
Years active
1977 – present
Premendra Mazumder is a film critic, author, curator, consultant, society activist, festival-organizer, and festival-consultant. He has participated in several round-table discussions, conducted workshops, delivered lectures, and presented papers on various topics at national and international conferences.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
He has conducted film workshops in Kabul, Afghanistan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 2019[11]
He worked for the
International Critics' WeekCannes (since 2006),[12] Cairo International Film Critics Week [13] (since its inception) and several other film festivals as consultant and advisor.[14][15]
He presented the Celebration Ceremony of 100 Years of Indian Cinema in
Croatia (May 2013).[16]
He has inaugurated various film societies,[17][18][19][20][21][22] and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade.[23] Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India.[24][25] The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.[26][27]
Writings on cinema
Premendra Mazumder's thoughts on cinema have been published in a variety of serious Indian film magazines; daily newspapers; and film journals -
Screen,
Rupwani, and
DNA (Mumbai),[28]Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff,
College Street,
Chitrabhavna, and
Chitralipi (Kolkata),
Deep Focus (Bangalore),.[29] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif,[30] Subversive[31] Cinema (Portugal),
Film Realm (Cairo), Cinesith (Colombo), 16mm (Dhaka), and Deepwani (Port Blair). He is also the Indian correspondent of the Cannes Critics Week.
Editorial Board - Dictionnaire du cinéma asiatique [32] published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions [33]
Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker
Buddhadeb Dasgupta[34]
Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' [35] (2010)
Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema' (2016)
Co-author -
Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (chapter titled, 'Music in Mainstream Indian Cinema') [36][37]
Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? [38]
film -author, -curator, -society-activist, and -festival-consultant.
Years active
1977 – present
Premendra Mazumder is a film critic, author, curator, consultant, society activist, festival-organizer, and festival-consultant. He has participated in several round-table discussions, conducted workshops, delivered lectures, and presented papers on various topics at national and international conferences.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
He has conducted film workshops in Kabul, Afghanistan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 2019[11]
He worked for the
International Critics' WeekCannes (since 2006),[12] Cairo International Film Critics Week [13] (since its inception) and several other film festivals as consultant and advisor.[14][15]
He presented the Celebration Ceremony of 100 Years of Indian Cinema in
Croatia (May 2013).[16]
He has inaugurated various film societies,[17][18][19][20][21][22] and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade.[23] Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India.[24][25] The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.[26][27]
Writings on cinema
Premendra Mazumder's thoughts on cinema have been published in a variety of serious Indian film magazines; daily newspapers; and film journals -
Screen,
Rupwani, and
DNA (Mumbai),[28]Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff,
College Street,
Chitrabhavna, and
Chitralipi (Kolkata),
Deep Focus (Bangalore),.[29] The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif,[30] Subversive[31] Cinema (Portugal),
Film Realm (Cairo), Cinesith (Colombo), 16mm (Dhaka), and Deepwani (Port Blair). He is also the Indian correspondent of the Cannes Critics Week.
Editorial Board - Dictionnaire du cinéma asiatique [32] published in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions [33]
Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker
Buddhadeb Dasgupta[34]
Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture' [35] (2010)
Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema' (2016)
Co-author -
Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (chapter titled, 'Music in Mainstream Indian Cinema') [36][37]
Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure? [38]