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Marc Haaz was not only the technical director of FICA, he was also an actor, director, producer, distributor. He was destined for a brilliant career in the world of cinema. It was a solar being struck down, in full professional rise, by fate.

Marc Haaz is a solar being as he has human, professional, cultural qualities and unfailing loyalty in friendship. It is an immeasurable loss for Vesoul, Haute - Saone, the associative world and the world of cinema.

To survive Covid, NETPAC’s USA chapter, headed by academic and filmmaker, Vilsoni Hereniko, started a monthly online film discussion.

It would not be wrong to state that Dilip Kumar, who passed away earlier this week after a long illness related to age issues and pancreatic cancer, will be regarded as the greatest actor Indian cinema has ever produced. One may add that at the jet-paced speed today with which actors come and go, it is doubtful whether any Indian actor will be able to reach the peak that he did.

Founder of NETPAC, Cinemaya The Asian Film Quarterly and Cinefan, The Festival of Asian Cinema, Aruna Vasudev will be honoured with the “Satyajit Ray Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing on Cinema” by FIPRESCI India.

Strongly rooted in Bengali culture, politics and literature, he began life as a poet and went on to direct close to 20 films and numerous documentaries. Each of his films reflected a lyrical style and an idealist’s imagination, often with protagonists standing at odds with a practical world.

This year’s Jeonju International Film Festival was the first important Asian film event to hold a part-live and part-virtual event in May (28 May – 6 June).

Through extensive research, the book considers the interaction of government policy, Iranian national cinema genres, intended audience, funding source, and domestic and international reception, to demonstrate the interplay between filmmakers and the government over these two successive presidencies.

From London to Kazakhstan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Australia and Hawaii, and a few other stops inbetween, NETPAC marked International Women’s Day with a screening of the Iranian debut feature Orange Days by Arash Lahooti.

The 1st Netpac Film Week was held Nov 5-8, 2019 at the Beijing Film Academy (BFA). Organised by veteran filmmaker Prof Xie Fei and film researcher, Wang Yao, the event was a first step to introduce the work of NETPAC in promoting the cinemas of Asia.