Press Release - Screening of award winning films at ESG

Panaji, 30th January 2014:   

After the overwhelming response received to this initiative of promoting film culture in the state through weekend screening. This weekend the Entertainment Society of Goa cordially invites you for the screening of acclaimed films like “Shwet (White)” will be screened on 31st January 2014 at 5:30pm, “A PESTERING JOURNEY” will be screened on 1st February 2014 at 5:30pm and the film “ANTHONY GONSALVES THE MUSIC LEGEND” will be screened on 2nd February 2014 at 5:30pm, all the screenings will be held at Maquinez Audi-I.

Synopsis

SHWET (WHITE): India/2011/ 29 min– Dir – Kanchan Ghosh
Synopsis: Shwet looks at quantifiable and unquantifiable nature of pain. It interweaves the circumstances of a farmer and filmmaker, who belong to different social spectrum yet their fates are bound together.

A PESTERING JOURNEY: India, 2011, 52 min- Dir – K.R. Manoj
 Synopsis - This award winning film delves and takes the viewers on a voyage through two pesticides tragedies in post independent India, “A pestering journey” is an attempt to interrogate the legitimate forms and technologies of killing available in a culture. 

ANTHONY GONSALVES THE MUSIC LEGEND: India, 2011, 58 min-
 Dir – Shri Ashok Rane
 Synopsis - Anthony Gonsalves entered Indian film industry in 1943 as a violinist, became a composer, arranger and conductor. He has around 250 films with approx 1000 songs to his credit. He worked with many music directors including Anil Biswas Khemchand prakash, Nausad Ali, S.D. Burman, Madanmohan, salil chowdhary, N.Dutta etc. He knew Indian classical musicals wrote the same in western type notations. Performed various shows of symphony he went to USA to teach music. Wrote 5 books with notations on sitar, sarod, table, violin etc

                                                                           
FILM
DATE
TIME
VENUE
SHWET (WHITE):
31st January 2014
5:30pm
Maquinez Audi
A PESTERING JOURNEY
1st February 2014
5:30pm
Maquinez Audi
ANTHONY GONSALVES THE MUSIC LEGEND
2nd February 2014
5:30pm
Maquinez Audi

Access to the screening will be on first come first basis.