Among the many things that Los Angeles-based Film Independent does, besides the high-profile Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, is provide crucial support to independent filmmakers. Every year a select few get chosen to participate in their Documentary Lab, which is designed to help them during the post-production phase on a film. In the past, participants have gone on to complete excellent work, among them Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos, whose "Rich Hill" won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, as well as Pj Raval ("Before You Know It"), Hilla Medalia’s ("Dancing in Jaffa"), Nicholas Wrathall ("Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia"), Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali Worrall ("Call Me Kuchu"), Laura Nix and Julia Meltzer ("The Light In Her Eyes") and Nicole Karsin ("We Women Warriors"). Among this year's mentors are editor Doug Blush ("20 Feet from Stardom"), Laura Gabbert...
- 3/17/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Valley of Saints by Musa Syeed has been selected for the touring festival Sundance Film Forward 2013.
Under the Film Forward label, eight films are chosen every year by the Sundance Institute to travel to four domestic and four international locations. Here the filmmakers of these films participate in screenings, extended Q&As, workshops, and master classes at universities, film and cultural centres, museums, libraries and other community, educational, and cultural venues.
In Valley of Saints, Gulzar plans to run away from the war and poverty surrounding his village in Kashmir with his best friend, but a beautiful young woman researching the dying lake leads him to contemplate a different future. The film stars Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Mohammed Afzal Sofi and Neelofar Hamid.
Written and directed by Musa Syeed, the film has been earlier awarded the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the Sundance...
Under the Film Forward label, eight films are chosen every year by the Sundance Institute to travel to four domestic and four international locations. Here the filmmakers of these films participate in screenings, extended Q&As, workshops, and master classes at universities, film and cultural centres, museums, libraries and other community, educational, and cultural venues.
In Valley of Saints, Gulzar plans to run away from the war and poverty surrounding his village in Kashmir with his best friend, but a beautiful young woman researching the dying lake leads him to contemplate a different future. The film stars Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Mohammed Afzal Sofi and Neelofar Hamid.
Written and directed by Musa Syeed, the film has been earlier awarded the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the Sundance...
- 11/11/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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