Wednesday 30 September 2009
THE CREW
DANNY BOLYE - Director
One of the UK’s finest directors, Danny Boyle has a wide spectrum of critically acclaimed and commercially successful film credits: Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Alien Love Triangle, 28 Days Later, Millions and Sunshine. Slumdog Millionaire is his eighth international theatrically released film.
SIMON BEAUFOY -Writer
Simon Beaufoy trained at Bournemouth College of Art and Design as a documentary director then took to writing. His screenwriting credits include The Full Monty, Among Giants, The Darkest Light, Yasmin and This is Not a Love Song. Filming has just finished on his latest script, two-part thriller, ‘Burn Up’, which is based around the politics of oil depletion and climate change. It premiered on BBC2 in June 2008, and starred Neve Campbell, Rupert Penry-Jones and Bradley Whitford. After adapting Q and A (Slumdog Millionaire) Simon is now adapting the novel, ‘The Raw Shark Texts’ for Film4.
DANNY BOLYE - Director
One of the UK’s finest directors, Danny Boyle has a wide spectrum of critically acclaimed and commercially successful film credits: Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Alien Love Triangle, 28 Days Later, Millions and Sunshine. Slumdog Millionaire is his eighth international theatrically released film.
SIMON BEAUFOY -Writer
Simon Beaufoy trained at Bournemouth College of Art and Design as a documentary director then took to writing. His screenwriting credits include The Full Monty, Among Giants, The Darkest Light, Yasmin and This is Not a Love Song. Filming has just finished on his latest script, two-part thriller, ‘Burn Up’, which is based around the politics of oil depletion and climate change. It premiered on BBC2 in June 2008, and starred Neve Campbell, Rupert Penry-Jones and Bradley Whitford. After adapting Q and A (Slumdog Millionaire) Simon is now adapting the novel, ‘The Raw Shark Texts’ for Film4.
CAST and CHARACTERS OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
DEV PATAL - Jamal
Dev was the lead in Slumdog millioniare, he was picked from an open casting of hundreds to play to the role of Anwar in the Channel 4 cult series 'Skins'. In which lead him to become well-known and was picked to play Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire.
ANIL KAPOOR - Prem
One of the most versatile and successful actors in Hindi Films.
IRRFAN KHAN - Inspector
Irrfan is from Jaipur, India.
MADHUR MITTAL - Salim
Madhur was born in Agra, a small town in North India well known for the Taj Mahal.
FREIDA PINTO - Latika
Freida graduated from St Xavier's College in Mumbai and in 2005 was signed up to Elite Model Agency in India. Slumdog Millionaire was her first lead role in a feature film.
DEV PATAL - Jamal
Dev was the lead in Slumdog millioniare, he was picked from an open casting of hundreds to play to the role of Anwar in the Channel 4 cult series 'Skins'. In which lead him to become well-known and was picked to play Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire.
ANIL KAPOOR - Prem
One of the most versatile and successful actors in Hindi Films.
IRRFAN KHAN - Inspector
Irrfan is from Jaipur, India.
MADHUR MITTAL - Salim
Madhur was born in Agra, a small town in North India well known for the Taj Mahal.
FREIDA PINTO - Latika
Freida graduated from St Xavier's College in Mumbai and in 2005 was signed up to Elite Model Agency in India. Slumdog Millionaire was her first lead role in a feature film.
The Producer - CHRISTIAN COLSON
"After graduating with a first class degree in English from Wadham College, Oxford, Christian joined talent agency London Management in 1994 where he represented writers working in the television, theatre and film industries. In 1998 he became a Development Executive at UK start-up HAL Films, becoming Head of Development a year later. Following the demise of HAL in 2000, he was appointed Head of Development UK for Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax Films. Christian joined Celador Films in 2002 where, as Managing Director he oversees all of the company’s operations. While at Celador, Christian has produced Julian Fellowes’ Separate Lies (2005), Neil Marshall’s worldwide horror hit The Descent (2005) and James Watkins’ forthcoming thriller Eden Lake (2008)."
Slumdog millionaire the film originated from the novel 'Q&A".
"The simple premise of Swarup’s novel enabled Beaufoy to concentrate on two key elements when adapting the story into a screenplay. Firstly, the obvious rags to riches fairytale, where our hero overcomes enormous obstacles to reach a positive conclusion. Secondly, the extraordinary backdrop against which the story is set. But there were many technical difficulties. The adaptation of a book into a film script requires a very different approach for a writer than producing an original screenplay. The challenge for Beaufoy was to retain the soul of the book, but at the same time, translate those characters onto the big screen."
"After graduating with a first class degree in English from Wadham College, Oxford, Christian joined talent agency London Management in 1994 where he represented writers working in the television, theatre and film industries. In 1998 he became a Development Executive at UK start-up HAL Films, becoming Head of Development a year later. Following the demise of HAL in 2000, he was appointed Head of Development UK for Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax Films. Christian joined Celador Films in 2002 where, as Managing Director he oversees all of the company’s operations. While at Celador, Christian has produced Julian Fellowes’ Separate Lies (2005), Neil Marshall’s worldwide horror hit The Descent (2005) and James Watkins’ forthcoming thriller Eden Lake (2008)."
Slumdog millionaire the film originated from the novel 'Q&A".
"The simple premise of Swarup’s novel enabled Beaufoy to concentrate on two key elements when adapting the story into a screenplay. Firstly, the obvious rags to riches fairytale, where our hero overcomes enormous obstacles to reach a positive conclusion. Secondly, the extraordinary backdrop against which the story is set. But there were many technical difficulties. The adaptation of a book into a film script requires a very different approach for a writer than producing an original screenplay. The challenge for Beaufoy was to retain the soul of the book, but at the same time, translate those characters onto the big screen."
Wednesday 23 September 2009
Film 4: Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire was created by Channel 4, which is in association with Film4. The Film is set in India, where Jamal Malik is being beaten by Mumbai police for allegedly cheating on hit TV show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionare?' One question away from the ultimate 20 millin rupee prize, no one, believes a Chai Wallah (teaboy) like Jamal could know all the answers.
The Film provides awareness of such poverty in India and children's life's, in doing so, it made this film a multi-Oscar-winning fable.
With the Director Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan and the famous leading character Dev Patal, this has truey made it a world wide leading film.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight of them. The film also won seven BAFTA Awards, five Critics Choice Awards, and four Golden Globes.
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Film4
Film 4 is a free digital television channel which can be used by United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is owned by channel 4 and is devoted to screening films. There is also Film 4 +1, which is the same screening of Film4 but just an hour behind.
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