Film clips from Bollywood will be starring in three talks in September and October, at various libraries in Maine.

This is the first event to be scheduled in the community events series leading up to the 2024 Camden Conference on India: Rising Ambitions, Challenges at Home on Feb. 16 – 18.

Long the world’s largest film industry, India’s commercial Hindi-language cinema largely based in Mumbai has long surpassed Hollywood in number of films produced and tickets sold.

Jon Cavallero, Associate Professor and Chair of Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies at Bates College and Founding Director of the Bates Film Festival will introduce Bollywood’s unique cinematic style, as well as its global power, particularly in the developing world where Hollywood’s sales have lagged.