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Highlights from Indian Visions 2008
- We screened 24 films (features, documentaries and shorts) in 7 languages over the course of 4 days at the Phoenix Adlabs at Union Station in Washington, DC.
- Rock On!! opened the festival with director Abhishek Kapoor in attendance. He answered many questions during the following reception at the White Tiger Restaurant and was presented with the 2008 Indian Visions Opening Night Selection Award.
- Brahmanand Singh won the 2008 Indian Visions Audience Award for his documentary film Pancham Unmixed. Brahmanand Singh was also present and engaged in a Q&A session after the screening.
- Other directors who attended the festival are Spandan Banerjee (The Fiction and Beware Dogs), Ashish Avikunthak (Nirakar Chhaya – Shadows Formless and Antaral – End Note), Mona Kumar (Between Two Worlds), Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani (Crossing Lines) and Harjant Gill (Milind Soman Made Me Gay).
- Other movies which garnered appreciation included Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Naalu Pennungal, Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par, Franz Osten's Prapancha Pash, Umesh Kulkarni's Valu – The Wild Bull, Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Farhan Akhtar and Santosh Sivan's AIDS JaaGo, Neeraj Pandey's A Wednesday, Nishikant Kamat's Mumbai Meri Jaan, Liz Mermin's Shot In Bombay, Preeya Nair's Quamar – Working to Live, Christopher Mitchell's Super 30, Ramesh Mourthy and Raghu Jeganathan's Wings of Evolution, Atul Sabharwal's Midnight Lost and Found, Atul Taishete's Rewind, Dhiraj Meshram's Haravele Indradhanush – The Lost Rainbow and Sidharth Singh's The Private Life of Albert Pinto.
Brahmanand Singh, Amanda Sodhi, Abhishek Kapoor, Sukumar Srinivasan and Spandan Banerjee |
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Amanda Sodhi, Abhishek Kapoor and Sukumar Srinivasan |
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Abhishek Kapoor |
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