Premendra Mazumder

Premendra Mazumder is a film -author, -curator, -consultant, -society-activist, -festival-organizer, and -festival-consultant. He has participated in several round-table discussions, conducted workshops, delivered lectures, and presented papers on various topics at national and international conferences. At the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival in 2015, he spoke on the 'Politics of Film and Social Dynamics' and on 'Trends in South Asian Independent Cinema'
He works for the International Critics' Week Cannes (since 2006), and for the Cairo International Film Critics Week(since its inception). And presented the Celebration Ceremony of 100 Years of Indian Cinema in Croatia (May 2013).
He has inaugurated various film societies, and has been the chief guest at important film meets over the last decade. Additionally, he initiated the 1st FFSI International Film Festival traveling in over 40 cities in India. The Festival was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 in Kolkata.

Premendra Mazumder's thoughts on cinema have been published in a variety of serious Indian film magazines; daily newspapers; and film journals - Screen, Rupwani, and DNA (Mumbai), Cinemaya (Delhi), Filmbuff, College Street, Chitrabhavna, and Chitralipi (Kolkata), Deep Focus (Bangalore),. The international film magazines in which his writings have appeared include Positif (Paris), SubversiveCinema (Portugal), Film Realm (Cairo), Cinesith (Colombo), 16mm (Dhaka), and Deepwani (Port Blair). He is also the Indian correspondent of the Cannes Critics Week.

• Editorial Board - Dictionnaire du cinéma asiatiquepublished in October 2008 by the Nouveau Monde Editions
• Editor - The Poet of Celluloid on the life and works of the master film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta
• Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture'(2010)
• Executive-editor/co-author - 'Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema' (2016)
• Co-author - Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (chapter titled, 'Music in Mainstream Indian Cinema')
• Author - Film Society Movement: a Success or Failure?
• Author - Folk Songs of Bengal

• "'Tagore was inescapable' - Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dnaindia.com. 11 August 2006. 
• http://www.deepfocusonline.com/about/team/
• http://www.revues-de-cinema.net/Sommaire/FRA_16004_Catalogue-anciens.pdf
• "SUBVERSIVEFILMFESTIVAL". subversivefestival.com. 
• ://www.archive.subversivefestival.com/subff2009/index_det_det.php?tekst_id=515&spn=1
• "Dictionnaire du cinéma asiatique". 
• "Nouveau Monde éditions". 
• "Federation of Film Societies of India". ffsiarchive.blogspot.in. 
• "Indian Film Culture 15th Edition August 2010.pdf". google.com. 
• Gokulsing, K. Moti; Dissanayake, Wimal (17 April 2013). "Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas". Routledge – via Google Books. 
• "Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (Hardback) - Routledge". routledge.com. 
• Development, Chits. "FILM SOCIETY MOVEMENT ? A SUCCESS OR FAILURE ? Ebook by Premendra Mazumder". ideaindia.com. 
• Mazumder, Premendra (11 August 2011). "FOLK SONGS OF BENGAL". IDEAINDIA.COM – via Amazon. 

He has written the screenplays for two Bengali feature films. He also occasionally subtitles films from Bengali and Hindi to English; three notable works: Third Person Singular Number (2009), Necklace (2011), and Shajarur Kanta (2015). As a playwright he has five major plays to his credit.

• Former secretary (2010-2012) - Asian chapter of International Federation of Film Societies (IFFS)
• President - Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI)
• General Secretary - Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI)
• Executive Member - Indian Film Critics Association (IFCA)
• Executive Member - Indian body of FIPRESCI

• "IFFS - International Federation of Film Societies". ficc.info. 

• Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition (India, 2004)
• Mumbai International Film Festival(MAMI; 2005)
• Mumbai International Film Festival for Shorts Documentaries & Animations(MIFF; 2006)
• Kara Film Festival(Karachi, 2006)
• Hyderabad International Film Festival (India, 2008)
• Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films (Egypt, 2008)
• Jeevika Asian Livelihood Documentary Competition(New Delhi, 2010)
• Short & Documentary Film Festival Hyderabad (2010)
• Shaken's Stars International Film Festival Almaty (Kazakhstan, 2012)
• Abu Dhabi Film Festival UAE(Abu Dhabi, 2012)
• Evora International Film Festival for Shorts & Documentaries FIKE(Portugal, 2013)
• Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival
• Regard: Saguenay International Short Film Festival(Canada, 2016)
• SiGNS Film Festival (India, 2016)

• "Kinema : : A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media". 
• "MIFF'2006 Jury". 
• "iPhone7". karafilmfest.com. 
• http://jeevika.org/author/admin/page/15/
• "Reviews, opinions-Kyrgyz Cinema". 
• http://www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae/en/Press/press-releases/2012/2012-10-19-ADFF-Unveils-Winners-of-2012-Black-Pearl-FIPRESCI-and-NETPAC-Awards%7Ctitle=ADFF Unveils Winners of 2012 Black Pearl, FIPRESCI and NETPAC Awards
• http://www.grandeecran.com/2013/10/25/fike-5a-feira-dia-24/
• "KIMFF kicks off with 'unbroken spirit' - The Himalayan Times". thehimalayantimes.com. 11 December 2015. 
• "KIMFF is back with 'unbroken spirit'". myrepublica.com. 
• "Programming". festivalregard.com. 
• "Festival Regard 2016: Rencontre avec David Uloth". cinefilic.com.