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German novelist/director Doris Doerrie’s latest Nippon-set drama Cherry Blossoms – Hanami has been picked up by Strand Releasing for an Autumn release following the film’s two wins at the Bavarian Film Festival.

Bollywood A-list cinematographer and art house director Santosh Sivan is one of the few directors who has the double duty of lensing as well as directing his own films. He returns with another stunning film after The Terrorist left us craving for more of his talent.

Christina Marouda: I came up with the idea of starting an Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles six and half years ago since this is our 6th year because I worked with couple of International film festivals and my background was marketing and distributing films as well as programming films. I realized that there wasn't a platform for Indian films. You would see one or two films that were shown at some festivals every other year but even that in my opinion wasn't a representation of the country had to offer. Since I had an interest in India anyway, I thought there was a niche but I did my research and found there was an Indian community here. Also that year LAGAAN had been nominated for an Academy Award as a best foreign film and MONSOON WEDDING was coming out. Also there was this huge interest in Yoga and spiritualism in LA, so all these elements made me realize that there was a platform for this festival and only a question of time before India would be on everybody's radar. Now six years later all the studios are looking at India for local and co-productions. It would have been difficult for us now to establish ourselves when everybody is already interested because we wouldn't have been ready for the attention, so it took us to establish our vision and now we are ready for the attention.

Following in the steps of the battling biopics - Capote (2005) vs. Infamous (2006) and Gus Van Sant's Milk (2008) vs. Bryan Singer's The Mayor of Castro Street (his Superman distraction might have permanently shelved this project) - 20th Century Fox and Universal have both announced that they will be tackling biopics about the British pop singer Dusty Springfield.

Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Alex Rivera's indie sci-fi flick "Sleep Dealer" found a distributor with Maya Entertainment. The film went on to nab the Alfred P. Sloan and Waldo Salt Screenwriting accolades.