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In 2006, Pranav Ashar, then an 18-year old student at University of Mumbai, decided to start a film society that would show film classics on the big screen.


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Adam Alexander Dawson

Dawson was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Stowe School, and The Queen's College, Oxford where he was President of the Oxford University Film Society.

Do Thi Hai Yen

“The Quiet American” received the Academy Award Nomination, another ten wins and seven nominations at the BAFTA Awards, Golden Globes - USA, London Critics Circle Film Awards, National Board of Review - USA, Political Film Society - USA, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Satellite Awards, Bangkok International Film Festival, Australian Screen Sound Guild, World Soundtrack Awards.in 2003.

Durbeen

Barrister Shafique Ahmed, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliament; Abul Kalam Azad, Minister for Information and Culture; Sharmin Chowdhury, State Minister for Women and Children; Artist Mustafa Manwar, Chairman of Bangladesh Shishu Academy; Mohammad Asafuddoula, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Bangladesh Digital Film Society; Sultan Mahmud, Country Director of Save the Children Australia; Film star Ilias Kanchan were among them.

Independent Cinema in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has a well-established history of independent cinema exhibition dating back to the 1930s and the Film Society Movement, which still exists as the British Federation of Film Societies.

Johns Hopkins Film Festival

With much guidance from English department chair Jerome Christensen and Writing Seminars Chair Mark Crispin Miller, the Johns Hopkins Film Society decided to put together a submission-oriented, student run film festival to go along with their journal Frame of Reference.

Kara Film Festival

The Kara Film Society is a not-for-profit, non-political and non-governmental body, headed by Hasan Zaidi.

Kathleen Weaver

While a student in Berkeley she met documentary film director Allan Francovich whom she married in 1970; together they participated in the F.W. Murnau film society, the cinematic rediscovery circle around Tom Luddy, founder of the Pacific Film Archives.

Patricia Bartlett

SPCS tried to have Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Last Tango in Paris (1972) prohibited, which led to New Zealand Film Society activism against SPCS attempts to stifle freedom of artistic expression throughout the late seventies and early eighties.

Political Film Society

Political scientist Michael Haas, who serves on the board, has been the CEO of the Political Film Society since its inception and is now the Society's President.

Reel Pride

Reel Pride is an annual gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and two-spirit film and video festival produced by the Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Film Society in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Sympathy in Summer

It was partly financed by Melbourne University Film Society and was heavily financed by the films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Alain Resnais.

The War on Kids

The review of the documentary offered by Michael Haas, president of the Political Film Society, starts by pointing out that only two nations have refused to sign the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Somalia and the United States.