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Less Than Gaga Over Baba
The subject of a short film nominated for a 2007 Academy Award sounds more like all those folks who sued Sacha Baron Cohen over their participation in Borat.
Monday, January 28, 2008 at 7:55 PM
By FilmStew Staff
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Unhappy with his Hollywood ending
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The first problem, claims 52-year-old documentary short subject (subject) Mohammad Salim, a resident of Kolkata, India, is that he had no idea when he was being filmed by Americans Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello that it was for an end product that would be publicly shown. In the Oscar nominated documentary short Salim Baba, his practice of using razor blades and an ancient movie camera to splice odd bits of leftover film into new movie kaleidoscopes is celebrated.
“I was told they were filming me for their own CD and I was given only 10,000 Rupees [$253.00 U.S.] for the entire shoot that went on for weeks”, he tells the Khaleej Times. The short, prior to being nominated for an Academy Award, won pizes at the Woodstock, Palm Springs and Sidewalk film festivals.
The second problem, according to Salim, is that the release letter he was sent by Ropa Vieja Films last September has not been executed. “I haven’t signed the letter because it says I cannot let others film me”, Salim explains, in reference to reported interest in him from other filmmaking parties. “If it was in my hands, I would have stopped the film from being screened everywhere. It does not have my approval.”
The Times claims that email and telephone messages left for one or both producers in the U.S. have not been returned. Perhaps the most amazing thing meanwhile about Salim’s onscreen wizardry is that the movie camera he uses to project, with pedal power, was built long before the Oscars ever existed. In the year 1897, to be exact.
Producer-director-editor Bello has worked in post-production for folks such as Michael Moore and Kevin Smith, and recently completed his first feature-length effort My Favorite Actor, about a childhood friend who has become a pornographer. Co-director Sternberg began working as an editor for Francis Ford Coppola while still in high school, and has pitched in on the post-production side for Sleepless in Seattle, The Human Stain and more.
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- The story about Salim Baba did not come ...
pratim on Monday, January 28, 2008 11:30 PM
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The story about Salim Baba did not come out in The Khaleej Times. It came out in The Telegraph, the largest selling English daily in Calcutta. Heres the story which was copy-pasted in the Middle East newspaper
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080126/jsp/frontpage/story_8828895.jsp |
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- The story about Salim Baba did not come ...
pratim on Monday, January 28, 2008 11:30 PM
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The story about Salim Baba did not come out in The Khaleej Times. It came out in The Telegraph, the largest selling English daily in Calcutta. Heres the story which was copy-pasted in the Middle East newspaper
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080126/jsp/frontpage/story_8828895.jsp |
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