Ashim Ahluwalia
| Ashim Ahluwalia | |
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 Ashim Ahluwalia, June 2011 |
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| Born | 1972 Bombay, India |
| Occupation | Film director, producer & screenwriter |
| Years active | 1999-present |
| Awards | Indian National Film Award 2007 – Best Non-Fiction Film, John & Jane |
| Website | |
| http://www.futureeastfilm.com | |
Ashim Ahluwalia (born 1972 in Bombay, India) is a film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His first feature was John & Jane, which had a world premiere at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival followed by a European premiere at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. The film won an Indian National Film Award in 2007.
Working outside the traditional confines of the Bollywood film system,[1] Ashim Ahluwalia is one of a handful of new Indian directors uncomfortable working with Hindi film stars[2] His films display a preference for experimental structures (John & Jane is a catalogue of six seemingly unrelated characters), often blurring the lines between documentary and fiction. His short films have shown at the Tate Modern,[3] the Centre Pompidou and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.[4]
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[edit] Early life
Ashim Ahluwalia grew up in Bombay, India. He attended Bard College in New York and graduated in filmmaking in 1995.
[edit] Career
Ahluwalia made his first short film, The Dust, in 1993, by reworking home movies shot by his grandfather in the 1950s.[5]
He formed an independent production company, Future East, in 2005, allowing him and other directors to work outside mainstream film channels.
In August 2010, Ahluwalia was named "one of the ten best emerging film directors working today" by the publisher Phaidon Press in "Take 100: The Future of Film."[dead link][6]
Ashim Ahluwalia is currently at work on a Hindi feature film called Miss Lovely, set in the lower depths of Bombay's "c" grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.[dead link][7]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Feature films
- John & Jane (2006)
- Miss Lovely (2012)
[edit] Short films and installations
- The Dust (1993)
- A Short Season (1995)
- Thin Air (1999)
- Development Plan (2007) with artist Neha Choksi and Architect Kapil Gupta (Installation for 10th Venice Architecture Biennale)
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Filter
- ^ DNA - 'I don't need SRK to make a Hindi movie
- ^ Tate Modern|Film|Shai Heredia
- ^ DNA - Salon - 'Mumbai uses space cunningly' - Daily News & Analysis
- ^ 12 October 2005 "Scratch Projection 'Experimenta India'". Les Voutes.
- ^ Phaidon Press[dead link]
- ^ Shackleton, Liz (5 November, 2008),"Kashyap, Nair among film-makers selected for Film Bazaa". ScreenDaily[dead link]
[edit] References
- Koehler, Robert. (October 13, 2005), "John & Jane". Variety
- Stone, Susan (March 9, 2006), "Indian by Day, American by Night". Der Spiegel.
- Pasolini, Antonio. "Dispatch: The Osnabrück Media Art Festival, Germany, 10-14 May 2006". kamera.co.uk. Retrieved November 15, 2011
[edit] External links
- Ashim Ahluwalia at the Internet Movie Database
- John & Jane: HBO Website [1]
- John & Jane: Official Website [2]
