The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita Bhhatia

100th EPISODE OF THE ARTISTS PODCAST- We couldn't be more elated- THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THIS JOURNEY. And, this episode has a special guest- Anupama Chopra- needs no introduction- we talk about her book, "A place in my heart" and, a bit of her:)
Find her on Linkedin and Instagram.

Digs:

1) Selecting 51 artists- filmmakers, films, events, festivals from a millions of things out there.

2) An industry and profession that seduces millions but remains elusive.

3) SHOLAY the blockbuster and a tiny fact that it was predicted to be a blockbuster way before it got released.

4) In showbiz no one knows anything eg Pushpa the film

5) Mr. Bachchan- a tiny anecdote on Mr. Bachchan and why he is still GOD.

6) DIL CHAHTA HAI- Another tiny fact that the actor Priety Zinta predicted it to be a cult film but a few distributors backed out after seeing the cut.

7) Polarized views and the making of a cult; also do we need test screenings- a little fact about the actor/ producer- Aamir Khan and his way of working .

8) Sai Paranjpe, Zoya Akhtar, Mira Nair- women filmmakers

9) What did Scorcese say about Ray

10) South Indian films and why we need to look up to them.

Njoy.

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We are heading towards the 100th episode of THE ARTISTS podcast-
and in this 99th episode, we have Maya Van Leemput- who has been named 50 female futurists by Forbes; Maya specializes in Media, Arts, and Design. She is a Senior Researcher for the Research Center Open Time | Applied Futures Research at Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and the Arts, where she also teaches Strategic Futures Orientation. Van Leemput is the UNESCO Chairholder of Images of the Futures and Co-creation for the Open Time team.
Find her on LinkedIn @ MAYA VAN LEEMPUT

Digs:

1) Travelling 28 countries, 5 continents, 36 months on a bicycle and interviewing 382 people- AN EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME which cannot be replaced by anything.
2) What were the visions of the future that people thought of- while interviewing 382 people
3) Being a futurist- can we predict the future?
4) Relationship with uncertainty is different in a country like Belgium vs India
5) Travelling through India on a bicycle
6) The future of Media, Arts, and Design- how individual cultures are responsible
7) Influence of apps like Ticktok in storytelling culture- are we moving forwards or backward.
8) Global conversations needed around content
9) Visions of the future- openness to emergence and differences needed to sustain the future.

NJOY!!!

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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EP 98- yes!!!- of THE ARTISTS podcast has Leslee Udwin as our guest. Leslee is a filmmaker who made this heartwrenching documentary India's daughter - on the 2012 Nirbhaya rape. The film garnered 60 million views right after the ban when BBC released in the UK. Post that Leslee started a not-for-profit education organization, Think Equal.. Leslee left her preeminent filmmaking career after making her Peabody Award-winning documentary India's Daughter and redirected her life towards mindset change through education. Her other works include the Bafta Award-winning film East is East, a film about intercultural tolerance. Leslee has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright) and the UN Women for Peace Activist Award at the United Nations, amongst many others.

Digs:
1) On making India's daughter
2) Need to change the mindset
3) How we think is how we act
4) All patriarchal cultures are the same
5) Why was the film banned
6) Interacting with the rapist
7) Bein a rape victim at 18
8) Starting THINK EQUAL
9) Can we teach Empathy.

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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This final episode 97 for the year 2021, has Vasundhara Das as our guest.

Vasundhara Das is a multifaceted, multi-lingual personality successfully straddling many worlds. Well known for her skill in both the film and music industries, Vasundhara’s films include Hey Ram (Tamil / Hindi)), Monsoon Wedding (English), Citizen (Tamil), Ravana Prabhu (Malayalam), Lankesh Patrike (Kannada) and several others. As an entrepreneur, Vasundhara, along with partner Roberto Narain, are the pioneers of the drum circle movement in Corporate India and run DRUMJAM. Find her at drumjam.in

1) Working with Mira Nair.
2) Working with Kamal Hasan
3) Being an instinctive actor.
4) Source of creating music, being an actor and an entrepreneur.
5) Drum Circle- facilitating Human Spirit.
6) Defining success in today's cluttered world

Enjoy and see you all in 2022! HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS.

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License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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Why do we eat cows and not zebras? Are you making a life or are you making a living? What does the future hold the next 5 years- what are we questioning! As we head to the end of the year 2021, our guest for EP 96th of THE ARTISTS podcast is Ayelet Baron. Ayelet has been named as one of the 50 leading female futurists by Forbes; and a thought leader working for the advancement of humanity. Find her at ayeletbaron.com

Pointers:
1)Major shift in human consciousness needed as 1911 systems cannot be applied in 2021
2) Change is coming from the edge as more and more people are questioning what is important in my life.
3) We are part of nature.
4) Are you making a life or are you making a living!
5) We are facing a leadership crisis-
6) We are moving towards humanity- not a dystopian society
7) Change is going to come when more of us are going to step into our power
8) What world do you want to live in 2027?
9) Lead with the heart!

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License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4342-shades-of-spring
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Lev Kuleshov, the Russian filmmaker and one of the first pioneers of Film theory. The Kuleshov effect influenced directors like Hitchcock. This snacky episode takes us through the contributions and effects of this Russian film theorist and filmmaker. 

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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Science of storytelling, emotional intelligence and its impact on our stories, who we are in our own stories and more in this fantastic episode with Lani Peterson, a thought leader, and a professional storyteller. Find her on her site lanipeterson.com.

Pointers:

1) Very rarely do we talk about science of storytelling vs the art of storytelling.

2) What does storytelling does to our brain

3) Impact of stronger stories on the listener

4) Influencer culture and their stories

5) Emotionally intelligent storytellers and enhancing it

6) Leadership and storytelling

7) Creation and co creation

8) Who are we in our own stories!

Enjoy!!

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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We are talking to Darin Sallam, the filmmaker from Jordan, whose film got premiered at TIFF 21 amidst the Covid restrictions.
A great and important chat that will break a lot of myths about female filmmakers coming from the Arab world.

1) Farha, premiering, the audience, and the response amidst the co-vid.
2) Travelling. 5812 miles during the Covid from Amman .
3) Where do your stories come from?.
4) Why do you want to make films?
5) Does living around conflicted areas (Syria, Iraq, Israel,) influence you as a person and filmmaker
6) Funding in Jordan
7) What changes did you see in yourself after your first feature-length film?
8)Going with the flow and challenges of shooting your first feature film
9) The next phase


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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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Why is Lee Erwin one of the most important person's we should know- AN ARTIST WHO SINGLE HANDEDLY REVIVED AN INTEREST IN SILENT FILMS by his authentic, suave, Sophisticated compositions for over 70 silent films- from Buster Keaton to Mary Pickford to D.W. Griffith

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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How do we judge a work of art? What are the faculties of Perception we use? How does that differ from culture, understanding, habits, consciousness and more? Robert Pepperell an artist, a professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design, and a scholar and investigator shares his investigations:

1) Defining Visual experience?
2) Seeing a photograph/ and a moving image
3) Interpretation of visual experience vs perception
4) What is perception?
5) Magritte- The treachery of images.
6) Linear perspective vs natural perspective
7) The orange problem- There is no Orange!!
8) Consciousness
9) Leonardo Da Vinci
10) How do you Judge a piece of Art/ Movie
11) How do you judge your own art work

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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