Festival of Globe to span 10 days in California

Includes mammoth film festival and celebrities galore.

By Raif Karerat

WASHINGTON, DC: Festival of Globe is a 10-day celebration of the Indian heritage and film festival put on by the Federation of Indo Americans of Northern California (FIA) from August 7 to 16 in Silicon Valley, California.

The festival aims to promote diversity and connect various communities through cultural film, music, and dance performances, hosting a number of organizations, vendors, and global celebrities.

The week-and-a-half-long festival will feature Festival of India, an Indian heritage festival and parade, as well as the San Francisco Global Movie Fest, according to a press release. A number of actors, directors, and other celebrities from Hollywood, Bollywood, and worldwide will be making appearances at this year’s festival, with over a million people expected to attend, reported the festival organizers.

Per the official Festival of Globe website, celebrities and awardees this year include Sharon Stone, Martin Sheen, Jackie Chan, Kal Penn, Jane Fonda, Rani Mukherji, and Irrfan Khan.

The FIA is a Fremont-based organization dedicated to providing community initiatives for Americans of Indian origin. It is an umbrella organization of over 50 Bay Area organizations that represent over 100,000 Indian Americans.

Last year, more than 150,000 attended the festival,  which featured more than 100 film screenings over the same ten day span, with participation from more than 30 countries.

The following is the list of features slated to be shown at the Festival of Globe 2015:

Narrative Feature (Competition):

1. And the Circus leaves Town – Mete Sozer (Turkey, 98 mins)
   2. Spider’s Trap – Alan Walsh (Ireland, 85 mins)
   3. Materia – Natalia Naftalieva (Russia, 69 mins)
   4. Parrallax – Tommy Stackhouse (US, 89 mins)
   5. N + N – Mo Lai Yan Chi (Hong Kong, 93 mins)
   6. Getting Out – Nick Felice (US, 82 mins)
   7. Aspirin for the Masses – Adam Nixon (US, 103 mins)
   8. Agnus Dei – Agim Sopi (Kosovo, 110 mins)
   9. Jackrabbit Carleton Ranney – (US, 90 mins)
   10. Pure Hearts – Zhefei Bi (China – 96 min)
   11. Split Gravy on Rice – (Malaysia – 112 min)
   12. A Space Program – Van Neistat (US, 72 mins)
   13. Therapy for Murder – Kiki Vasilescu (Romania, 82 mins)
   14. 3.13 – David Jaure ( US, 72 mins)
   15. Cotton – Marty Madden (US, 92 mins)

Documentary Feature (Competition):

1. Goonga Pahalwaan – Prateek Gupta (India, 45 mins)
   2. Urban World – Warren Bass (US.India, 41mins)
   3. Furthest from the Wild – Alex Tello (US, 68 mins)
   4. Dr Lala – Gloria Halasz (Hungary, 58 mins)
   5. Human Harvest – Leon Lee (Canada, 68 mins)
   6. Gentle Giant – Gina Sealy (Bahama’s, 61 mins)
   7. A quest for meaning – Nathanael Coste (France, 88 mins)
   8. Tibetan Warrior – Dodo Hanziker (Switzerland, 84 mins)
   9. A question of humanity – Heather Angel Chandler (Uganda, 64 mins)
   10. Generation 89 – Anke Ertner (Germany, 71 mins)
   11. Passage to Mars – Jean Christophe Jeauffre (US, 103)
   12. Shahe – Shein Mazour (Kurdistaan, 66 mins)

Special Premieres:

1. January 19th
   2. Oass
   3. Rough Book
   4. Gour Hari Dastan
   5. Mee Sindhutai Sapkal
   6. In Continuum
   7. Anokhi Ankhon ( Non-competition )
   8. Tezaab 2 – Trailer Launch ( Non-competition )
   9. Madaari Trailer Launch ( Non-competition )
   10. Mardaani ( Non-competition )
   11. UnFreedom
   12. Makhmal
   13. Dhiyan Merjanya
   14. Rainy Day – Persia
   15. Jungle – Turkish
   16. Tulsi – Nepal
   17. Goonga Pehelwan
   18. Bhopal ( Non-competition )
   19. Spring – short – English
   20. Cry Now – Mexican Cast
   21. Angel Guardian – Holly
   22. High Way to Suva -Fiji
   23. Sahara – Fiji
   24. Love and Love only -Aus
   25. After Armageddon – Aus
   26. Dementia – Philippines

Bay Area Film Initiative:

1. Stanford Wushu – Matthhew Choi (2 mins)
   2. The Mural – Fran Guijarro (20 mins)
   3. The El-Salvadar Incident – Joe Goschy (39 mins)
   4. Bardo – Romy Randev (2 mins)
   5. Coyote Creek – Brian Garcia (15 mins)
   6. The Righteous Path – Robin Parker (19 mins)
   7. Howard Here.after – Ryan Wicks (8 mins)
   8. Male Bonding – Samuel Gouldthorpe (1 min)
   9. Under the mango tree – Lauren Lindberg (20 mins)

Music Video:

1. Fragile Rock – Jessica Garnder (US, 4 mins)
   2. Run Out – Andre Gaumond (Canada, 5 mins)
   3. Broken by Way Jose – Jennifer Stang (US, 4 mins)
   4. Oh My Devil – Jeff Arthur (US, 5 mins)
   5. Pablopolar – (Germany, 6 mins)
   6 Miss Summer – Robert Bittner (Germany, 4 mins)
   7. Ardoyne – Philip Clayton Thompson (US, 5 mins)
   8. The Boudoir – David Latreille (Canada, 3 mins)

Narrative Short:

1. Rai Dance – Aanya Cine (India, 12 mins)
   2. Replace – Mark Ang (Canada, 15 mins)
   3. Rebel Child – Juan Davis (US, 8 mins)
   4. Lapsus – Karim Ouaret (France, 30 mins)
   5. 1440 and Counting – Tony Gapastione (US,14 mins)
   6. The cost of love – Kai Lu (US, 21 mins)
   7. Figs for Italo – Bob Celli (US, 19 mins)
   8. Life Sentences – Jesse Rosenberg (US, 20mins)
   9. Kiko’s Paradise – Paco Gisbert (Spain, 9 mins)
   10. Tamso Ma Jyotirgamay – (India, 20 mins)
   11. Still Standing – Ellory Elkayem – (New Zealand, 9 mins)
   12. Might be – Venetia Evripiotou (Greece, 15 mins)
   13. The way of Tea – Fouchard Marc (France, 21 mins)
   14. Transit Game – Anna Fahr (Canada, 18 mins)
   15. Awaken – Bruce Sze Han Chen (US,19 mins)
   16. Romantic – Tsubasa Maruno (US, 4 mins)
   17. Capsized – Brandon Freer (US, 14 mins)
   18. When mom visits – Chiung-wen Chang (Taiwan, 18 mins)
   19. The story of snow – Younsik kim (South Korea, 21 mins)
   20. Before we turn to stone – Mohammed Mamdouh (UAE, 14 mins)
   21. Sacred Heart – Sol Aponte (USA, 14 mins)
   22. Tick Tock – Zeynep Kocak (Turkey, 9 mins)
   23. My life as sock – Tony Jonick (US, 10 mins)
   24. Bis Gleich – Benjamin Wolff (Germany, 20 mins)
   25. The Suburbs go forever – Mark day (Australia,14mins)
   26. Elleen – Xavery Robin (US, 12 mins)
   27. Grandpa’s debtor – Beka Sikharulidze (Georgia, 17 mins)
   28. Dad – Alexey Sparrow (Russia, 17 mins)
   29. Desintegracion – Alvaro Martin (Spain, 10 mins)
   30. Budget Cuts – Jarret Gahan (Australia, 12 mins)
   31. Love and Commando – Laurent Ardoint (France, 13 mins)
   32. Stereo Love – Martin lliev (Bulgaria, 9 mins)

Feature Screenplay (Competition):

1. Frogman – David Brichetto
   2. War 2.0 – James Hsiao
   3. The Pressue Cooker – Gregory Wolk
   4. Hold it – Marina Bortnik
   5. Sheriff – Nancy Bartley
   6. Private Life of American Mom – Amy Roth
   7. Wall Street Stag – Robert Thompsett
   8. Speak to me – Gavin Cutter
   9. Second Act – Carol Lee Hall
   10. Crystal Asylum – Paul Dupree
   11. Kimonos – James Hu
   12. A solid man of Boston – David Carkeet
   13. Dance of the blessed spirits – Matt Pacini
   14. Respawn – Toofun West
   15. Assholes Anonymous – Leslie Flannery
   16. Cuba the Diva – Andre Gaumond
   17. Cream Cakes – Vicki Bartholomew
   18. Lookin Up – Marvin Kaplan
   19. Halfway Home – David Schroeder
   20. Precious Vengeance – Stephen M Hunt
   21. Space Racer – Erik Barnard
   22. Dellwood – Jonathan Szatowski
   23. Can Richard come out – Richard Knapp
   24. Good Neighbors – John Arnold

Short Screenplay (Competition):

1. Writers Duel – Tini Wider
   2. A Ball – Alex Eisenhart
   3. Tigerskull Epic – Minna Lee
   4. Gone Fishing – Steven Crowley
   5. 10 Minutes – Lauren Groom
   6. Good Catholic Girl – Christina Paschyn
   7. The Temp – Jay Cohen
   8. SOUP – Sharon Shitrit
   9. A heart of Oak – Georgia Higgins
   10. Becoming Lana Liu – David Schroeder