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The Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Competition in assocation with the London Indian Film Festival is delighted to announce the 2010 Short Film Award nominees. (For details of the jury please see below). The shortlisted films will be screened at the Nehru Centre, Friday 16th July at 3pm. This event is FREE but RSVP essential. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Tel: 020 7491 3567 The Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Stree, London, W1K 1HF. The winning film will be announced and screened on th 20th July 7pm at the Cineworld Haymarket as part of the London Indian Film Festival's closing night gala. For further information on the London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) and tickets please visit www.londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk JUBILEE – Doug Rao, 15mins, (UK, 2009)
A by-the-book right-wing politician takes to the campaign trail in the company of a young hardliner. An encounter with an Asian woman from his past muddies the political waters and sends his emotions into a tailspin
A MIRACLE IN WEST BROM – Billy Dosanjh, 20mins (UK, 2010)
THE ROAD HOME – Rahul Gandotra, 20mins (UK, 2010) 10 year old Pico, British born and bred, is sent by his Indian parents to an international boarding school in the Himalayas. Abandoned by his family and picked on by school bullies who refuse to accept his British identity, Pico runs away to make his way back to England.RAMOSHI – Tathagata Singha, 13mins (INDIA, 2009)In 1871, the British dubbed the Ramoshi – a community in Maharashtra – a ‘criminal tribe’. Although they were ‘denotified’ in 1952 post-Independence, this documentary explores how the contemporary descendents still live with the stigma.LOST PARADISE – Waleed Akhtar, 13mins, (UK, 2009)
A young Muslim woman, wife and mother, has a chance encounter with a man from her past.
Can she recapture something that is perhaps lost forever?
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE – Nina Duttaroy, 9mins (UK, 2009)
The jury:Satwant Gill (Head of Jury, Executive committee member Satyajit Ray Foundation & LIFF); Yousaf Ali Khan (director); Michael Hayden (London Film Festival programmer) and Dave Calhoun (Film critic, Time Out) |
Documentary – “This is a film about my parents. My mother, a housewife for 30 years, and my father, owner of a car salvage yard. After recent events I was led deeper into their marriage than I’ve ever been before. For the first time I’ve asked questions, hoping to make peace with their history.”
