Make Good Cinema. Watch Good Cinema. Promote Good Cinema. Long Live Cinema!
An initiative to bring the best, no-nonsense film content to those who are in the business of films or simply film buffs. Long Live Cinema is, essentially, a film blog dedicated to creating room for an alternative non-mainstream cinema along with watching and promoting good cinema from everywhere.
Talk, express and share. We are the space that would love to be your voice.
Long Live Cinema proudly presents India’s first Independent Film Database - the one-stop place for information about Independent films made in India.
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Long Live Cinema is an initiative of avid film buff Shiladitya Bora.
An engineering graduate from L.D. College of Engineering Ahmedabad, Shiladitya Joined School of Cinema Television, Los Angeles City College to pursue a course in cinema. He however dropped out of the course and returned to India. He then pursued his post graduation from Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA/2008). While at MICA he founded an entertainment start-up called FulMarxx and subsequently the International Film Festival Ahmedabad. This 29 year old in a short span of time has conquered some of the most prestigious achievements which include of him being invited as a guest lecturer amongst bollywood biggees such as Aamir Khan, by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) to share views on contemprary film industry business. He has been the recipent of MICA Award for Creative and Entrepreneurial Excellence 2008 and also been bestowed with the Star Entrepreneur Award at the 2nd Indira International Innovation Summit in Mumbai in January 2009. Shiladitya was one of the six finalists from India in the SCREEN category at the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards 2010. He also manages DIRECTOR’S RARE, the recently launched Alternative Programming initiative of PVR Cinemas, India’s leading and premier Multiplex Cinema Exhibition Company. Shiladitya Bora was one of the TED Speakers along with Kiran Bedi & Monica Dogra at TEDx Sinhagad Pune conference in Jan 2012.
Mehdi Jahan, Assistant Editor, Long Live Cinema
Cinema’s been an obsession ever since in the first year of graduation, I chanced upon a copy of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ in a friend’s hard-disk , copied it to my pendrive and viewed it at home . That experience triggered my cinema journey on which I’ll be a traveller for the rest of my life . My masters in mass communication from AJK Mass Communication and Research Centre , Jamia Millia Islamia was a satisfying experience , which gave me an opportunity to broaden my cinema horizons and express myself creatively through the medium of cinema . Photography is my other passion and I find it quite liberating and yes , I do often look for cinematic frames inspired by the visual language of my favourite film-makers. In my leisure , apart from making attempts to satisfy my insatiable hunger for films , I write short fiction and indulge in a bit of poetry . Film-makers who inspire me a lot include Ingmar Bergman , Andrei Tarkovsky , Federico Fellini , Yasujiro Ozu , Satyajit Ray , Luis Bunuel , Abbas Kiarostami and Michael haneke , just to name a few and i do hope to make my own films some day . To bring cine buffs under one roof in order to generate discussions n debates on cinema , I also run a small film club called Cinematheque .
