Inside film bazaar: transnational practices, politics and precarity

Bhatia, Neha (2025) Inside film bazaar: transnational practices, politics and precarity. New Review of Film and Television Studies. (In Press)

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Abstract

This article focuses on the underrepresented node behind India’s contemporary independent film culture and its international developments: Film Bazaar, which has been organized by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) since 2007 in Goa. It explores the political-economic tensions, creative management strategies, and work culture inside the Bazaar through an innovative approach that combines insights from media industries studies and film festival scholarship, alongside in-depth personal interviews, auto-ethnography, participant observations, and archival research. In doing so, it positions the work world of the NFDC Bazaar and its lesser-known creative workers within India’s larger neoliberal-nationalist industrial structures. The Bazaar, in turn, emerges as a contested, fragmented space with an uncertain future, impacting India’s independent film culture and undermining its larger position within transnational film festival cultures.

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