Category: On the Road

Film Fest Call for Entries!

🎬 Call for Submissions — Consortium of Film and Content Creators Festival Award | London Chapter

The Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, University of Engineering & Management, Bengal Heritage Foundation, Forum for Film Studies & Allied Arts, Kolkata; and SMART Society, USA, invite filmmakers and content creators worldwide to submit their entries for the Consortium of Film and Content Creators Festival Award — London Chapter.

📍 Venue of award ceremony : Historic House of Lords, London
📅 Date: 18 April 2026
🕕 Time: 6 PM onwards (followed by dinner)

This international platform celebrates outstanding films and creative content that inspire, inform, and make an impact. If you have a powerful story to tell, this is your chance to showcase it on a global stage.

🔗 Submit here: https://cfccf.smartsociety.org/register

🎥 Let your film be seen. Let your story be heard.

NYU Fulbright Reception

Such a wonderful and reenergizing time at the New York University Fulbright Reception today meeting international Fulbright students from around the world and US faculty like me, sharing stories about our experiences and the ongoing impact they’re having on our personal and professional growth. Thank you, NYU Changemaker Center and NYU Office of Global Awards for the experience and the new friendships (and the delicious meal).

News From the Noquisiyi Mound

My peeps are back in the national news! Ownership of the largest unexcavated mound in the Southeastern US, the Noquisiyi Mound, is going home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee. The culturally significant site in North Carolina is being returned after the local city council voted unanimously to transfer ownership.

Franklin, North Carolina was once part of a Cherokee mother town long before the US existed and remains a site of spiritual importance to the Cherokee people.

Read all about it here and here.

A very good FIIG

Attention, people of Earth: the FIIG Film Festival launched yesterday. The nine outstanding films by award-winning Fulbright alums will be available for viewing online through May 2, 2025.

Access to view them is FREE but you must register to get the password at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18NbITo8lL3h6S4uuN_86IY8shWjvT7UNUKkKom2LK30/viewform?edit_requested=true .

To join us on May 3 for panel discussions with the filmmakers, register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/eN6KgrhDSpCH0j6vdaV3lg#/registration . I was one of the curators of the nine films and will be hosting one of the panel discussions along with my esteemed colleagues.

Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the Winners

What a great experience serving on the advisory committee for the CFCCF 2025 Film Festival, and addressing the audience and filmmakers in such great company today, including filmmaker Debasish Sen Sharma, Lapaataa Ladies writer Biplab Goswami, performance artist and storyteller Dr. Janardan Ghosh and UEM Chancellor Prof Dr. Satyajit Chakrabarti.

Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding short films.

Cannes Film and Content Creators Festival & Award ceremony.