Lucia, Director Pawan Kumar’s Kannada-language film Lucia has won the coveted Audience Award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival (Liff, July 18-25). The inventive crowd-funded film, powered by UK-based online outfit Distrify, delighted sold out audiences across the city.
Pawan Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?). The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director – Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film...
Pawan Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?). The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director – Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film...
- 7/30/2013
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Pawan Kumar’s Lucia has won the audience award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival.
The crowd-funded film, backed by UK-based online outfit Distrify and Kannada cinema’s first crowd-funded film, played to sold out audiences across the city.
Director Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?).
The jury, comprising Ill Manors producer Atif Ghani, documentary director Kim Longinotto, BBC London’s Sunny Grewal, shorts director Meghna Gupta and Liff’s Satwant Gill, said: the short film was “confident and ambitious in its storytelling, gave us engaging...
The crowd-funded film, backed by UK-based online outfit Distrify and Kannada cinema’s first crowd-funded film, played to sold out audiences across the city.
Director Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”
Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?).
The jury, comprising Ill Manors producer Atif Ghani, documentary director Kim Longinotto, BBC London’s Sunny Grewal, shorts director Meghna Gupta and Liff’s Satwant Gill, said: the short film was “confident and ambitious in its storytelling, gave us engaging...
- 7/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Opening tomorrow night and running through July 25th, is the cool London Indian Film Festival. The festival looks Beyond Bollywood and introduces amazing independent Indian films to the UK and has a world of riches for the audience this year. Check out what the festival director Cary Rajinder Sawhney told us in this fabulous in-depth interview about the movies and more of the London Indian Film Festival.
All about London Indian Film Festival
I have been working on the BFI London Film Festival for the last 17 years and one thing that struck me every year was that our films, Indian films, just weren’t getting any media attention, distributors weren’t picking them up, nobody was talking about them. The UK vision seem to be if it was Bollywood, then the Bollywood distributors would take care of it and it was anything else they did not understand it. What we...
All about London Indian Film Festival
I have been working on the BFI London Film Festival for the last 17 years and one thing that struck me every year was that our films, Indian films, just weren’t getting any media attention, distributors weren’t picking them up, nobody was talking about them. The UK vision seem to be if it was Bollywood, then the Bollywood distributors would take care of it and it was anything else they did not understand it. What we...
- 7/17/2013
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Anand Bakshi who wrote more than 4500 lyrics during his long career of 40 years, out of which at least 3000 songs were superhits, would now be a part of a comprehensive documentary that his close friend and creative collaborator Subhash Ghai will make. Research on the man and poet whose longevity defies all definition, has already begun. Says Ghai, "At the moment I am in the process of putting together the pieces of Bakshi Saab's life. But yes, I don't want to make a dry boring staccato documentary that no one would watch. This was a man who wrote some of the most entertaining songs for our films. I want the documentary on Bakshi Saab to be seen by generations that have not grown up with Bakshi's Saab's words in the mouth, as we have." Ghai wants to humanize Bakshi in the documentary. "I've put together a team of like-minded Bakshi fans.
- 5/11/2011
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
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