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British presenter, broadcaster, filmmaker, author and historian, professor David Olusoga, will be presented with a BAFTA Special Award at the upcoming BAFTA Television Awards on May 14. The award is one of BAFTA’s highest honors recognizing an outstanding contribution to film, games or television.
Olusoga’s credits include presenting history series “A House Through Time” (BBC Two), writing and presenting series “Black & British: A Forgotten History” (BBC Two) and the BAFTA-winning “Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners.” In recent years he led major interviews with the former President of the United States, Barack Obama and lectures including the Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart Lecture in 2020.
Olusoga said: “It is humbling to have my work in television, as both a producer and a presenter, recognized in this way.”
Jane Millichip, CEO at BAFTA added: “We are honoured to present David Olusoga the BAFTA Special Award at our forthcoming BAFTA Television Awards with P&o Cruises.
British presenter, broadcaster, filmmaker, author and historian, professor David Olusoga, will be presented with a BAFTA Special Award at the upcoming BAFTA Television Awards on May 14. The award is one of BAFTA’s highest honors recognizing an outstanding contribution to film, games or television.
Olusoga’s credits include presenting history series “A House Through Time” (BBC Two), writing and presenting series “Black & British: A Forgotten History” (BBC Two) and the BAFTA-winning “Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners.” In recent years he led major interviews with the former President of the United States, Barack Obama and lectures including the Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart Lecture in 2020.
Olusoga said: “It is humbling to have my work in television, as both a producer and a presenter, recognized in this way.”
Jane Millichip, CEO at BAFTA added: “We are honoured to present David Olusoga the BAFTA Special Award at our forthcoming BAFTA Television Awards with P&o Cruises.
- 5/2/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Recently, probably due to the pandemic and how it re-ignited the discussion about those issues, class seems to be the focus of many works, in film, in literature and other media. However, while we often tend to concentrate on how these topics are represented in our culture, oftentimes taking a look at their relevance in other countries and culture is quite eye-opening, as it shows facets of the concept we have not recognized yet for some reason. In the case of director Anshul Tiwari, it was writer Debashmita Dasgupta who opened his eyes to the machinations of that particular issue within Singaporean society, which not only provided an important insight for him as a documentary filmmaker, as he tells Variety, but also the foundation for his feature debut “Before Life After Death”, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Singapore International Film Festival.
“Before Life After Death” review is part...
“Before Life After Death” review is part...
- 11/29/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
A veteran of several short and documentary subjects, Anshul Tiwari’s narrative feature “Before Life After Death” has its world premiere in the Panorama strand of the Singapore International Film Festival.
In the film, a rebellious female student and a reticent middle-aged gynecologist, both of Indian origin, strike up an unlikely bond as they each confront a life-altering incident.
“Being a documentary filmmaker in the region gave me unique insight and access into Singapore’s civil society. The writer, Debasmita Dasgupta, created a narrative around the disparity between working and upper-class Singaporeans of Indian origin. She and I spoke a lot about sisterhood and how sometimes a woman’s best friend is another woman despite [her] being a stranger,” Tiwari told Variety. “People often talk about the fault lines where Singapore’s diversity has clear-cut boundaries despite sharing the same space. But we have seen a different side to Singapore where intercultural commingling is so natural,...
In the film, a rebellious female student and a reticent middle-aged gynecologist, both of Indian origin, strike up an unlikely bond as they each confront a life-altering incident.
“Being a documentary filmmaker in the region gave me unique insight and access into Singapore’s civil society. The writer, Debasmita Dasgupta, created a narrative around the disparity between working and upper-class Singaporeans of Indian origin. She and I spoke a lot about sisterhood and how sometimes a woman’s best friend is another woman despite [her] being a stranger,” Tiwari told Variety. “People often talk about the fault lines where Singapore’s diversity has clear-cut boundaries despite sharing the same space. But we have seen a different side to Singapore where intercultural commingling is so natural,...
- 11/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Banned feature #LookAtMe remains in the line-up.
Satircal thriller Assault by Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov is set to open the Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff), marking the first time a film from Central Asia has been selected to lead the event.
The full programme of 101 films from 54 countries – including nine titles for its main competition (see below) – were unveiled today for the festival’s 33rd edition, which will run from November 24 to December 4 and marks Sgiff’s first fully in-person event since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Yerzhanov is a leading figure in Kazakh cinema with several features...
Satircal thriller Assault by Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov is set to open the Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff), marking the first time a film from Central Asia has been selected to lead the event.
The full programme of 101 films from 54 countries – including nine titles for its main competition (see below) – were unveiled today for the festival’s 33rd edition, which will run from November 24 to December 4 and marks Sgiff’s first fully in-person event since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Yerzhanov is a leading figure in Kazakh cinema with several features...
- 10/26/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The recent (and still ongoing) Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the surface lots of anxieties, not only directly linked to our health, but also – in a more insidious way – generically about “the others”, fuelling distrust and, in the worst of cases, prejudice. It is a slippery slope and in this regard, the short film “Dear New Neighbour” by Anshul Tiwari of FilmsPositive is a gentle but assertive cautionary tale.
The story follows middle-aged taxi driver Adam (Kiah Lim Cheng) and his family. It’s February 2020 and the Dorscon (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) in Singapore has gone from yellow to orange and the containment measures are becoming stricter. Adam has chosen to stop working and stay at home, moaning and groaning about the situation, for his wife Molly’s (Peggy Tan) distress. Being a self employed, for him it’s relatively easy having a work break, but his daughter Lilian (Eshter Leong) is a schoolteacher,...
The story follows middle-aged taxi driver Adam (Kiah Lim Cheng) and his family. It’s February 2020 and the Dorscon (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) in Singapore has gone from yellow to orange and the containment measures are becoming stricter. Adam has chosen to stop working and stay at home, moaning and groaning about the situation, for his wife Molly’s (Peggy Tan) distress. Being a self employed, for him it’s relatively easy having a work break, but his daughter Lilian (Eshter Leong) is a schoolteacher,...
- 8/8/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
After his wife dies, a grieving older man finds he is struggling with the daily tasks that his wife would be responsible for. When his family tries to get him to move in order to take care of him and reduce the amount of work he has to do, the man refuses. Unbeknownst to the family, he received a special last gift from his wife that drives him to become independent.
“Sugee Cake” is, first and foremost, an endearing story of one man’s ability to deal with the loss of his wife. In such an emotionally poignant piece on a common theme, the production’s success in handling this issue lies largely within the script. Thankfully, the subject is approached with tact and rings a certain sincerity of someone who greatly understands the role a family can play when faced with a loss. Anshul Tiwari certainly captures a family...
“Sugee Cake” is, first and foremost, an endearing story of one man’s ability to deal with the loss of his wife. In such an emotionally poignant piece on a common theme, the production’s success in handling this issue lies largely within the script. Thankfully, the subject is approached with tact and rings a certain sincerity of someone who greatly understands the role a family can play when faced with a loss. Anshul Tiwari certainly captures a family...
- 3/30/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
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