Festival Updates

• We’re having a giveaway! Get two free tickets to your choice of SAFF film. Details on the “Family Friendly Film Giveway” page!
• During the festival we will be providing up to the minute updates on any schedule or ticket changes on the Festival Updates page.
• Updates on the Film Industry Forum Day panels and the Special Program: “A Conversation With… Jaya Bachchan and Ujjal Dosanjh“.
• Two new articles added to SAFF in the News: Vancouver area plays host to two cinematic celebrations and Moving moviemakers.
• See the beautiful Adwait Sangeet poster here.

The History of South Indian Film

Nikhil Raghavan, Editorial/Feature Writer for The Hindu, one of India’s most respected newspapers, creates a special series of articles for SAFF with Mohan V Raman, writer/film historian and K Hariharan, renowned director/Head of L V Prasad Film and TV Academy, writes about S. Indian Cinema, past to present.

A FLASHBACK – The Origins of Cinema in the South – Part 1

Ask anyone from the film industry in Chennai – How old is Tamil cinema? Most will reply with a query – around 80 years? This is like calculating the age of the child from the moment it started to talk. This is the sad part as … more

SAFF Canada Global Memories Project (SCGMP)

Film Memories: My Grand Uncle and Sholay by Anosh Irani

When I was young I had heard a story about one of my grand uncles. He lived alone in a large house in a small town. The year was probably 1980, and he was one of the first people in that town to own a VCR. Each night, as he … more