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Ashim Ahluwalia
	Ashim Ahluwalia, Mumbai 2016
Born	1972 (age 52–53); Mumbai, India
Occupation(s)	Film director, producer & screenwriter
Years active	1999–present

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Ashim Ahluwalia (born 1972 in Mumbai, India) is a film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the feature-length documentary John & Jane (2005), which had a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and a European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and won him the 2005 National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director.^[1] This was followed by his first narrative feature film Miss Lovely, premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]^[3] which won him India's National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature film), and Best Production Design at the 61st National Film Awards.^[4]

Working outside the mainstream Bollywood film system,^[5] Ashim Ahluwalia is part of a new generation of Indian directors.^[6] His unconventional films blur the lines between documentary and fiction. His short films have shown at the Tate Modern,^[7] the Centre Pompidou and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.^[8]

Early life and education

Ashim Ahluwalia grew up in Mumbai, India. He attended the city's Cathedral and John Connon School before attending Bard College in upstate New York, from which he graduated with a BA in filmmaking in 1995.^[9]

Career

Ahluwalia began his film career with a series of experimental films made between 1993 and 2002.^[10] His first short, The Dust (1993), was made by reworking home movies shot by his grandfather in the 1950s.^[11]

He formed an independent production company, Future East, in 2005, providing an infrastructure for him to work outside mainstream film channels.

Ahluwalia was selected by the San Francisco Film Society as their Artist in Residence for 2013.^[12]

In May 2013, he received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, his alma mater.^[13] The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to artistic or literary heritage."^[14]

In November 2013, he was selected to be on the jury of the 8th edition of the Rome Film Festival for the CinemaXXI section.^[15]

In 2010, Ahluwalia was named "one of the ten best emerging film directors working today" by Phaidon Press in "Take 100: The Future of Film".^[16]

Filmography

Films

Thin Air (1999)
John & Jane (2005)
Miss Lovely (2012)
Events in A Cloud Chamber (2016)
Daddy (2017)
The Field Guide to Evil (2018)

Web series

Class (Season 1) on Netflix (2023)

Awards

Indian National Film Award (2007) - Best Non-Fiction Film for John & Jane
Indian National Film Award (2013) - Special Jury Award (Feature Film) for Miss Lovely
Indian National Film Award (2013) - Best Production Design for Miss Lovely

Notes

^ "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals.
^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
^ "Indian movie Miss Lovely at Cannes film fest". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 April 2012.^{[dead link‍]}
^ "61st National Film Awards Announced: Live Update". Zee News. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
^ The Filter
^ DNA – 'I don't need SRK to make a Hindi movie
^ Tate Modern Film
^ DNA – Salon – 'Mumbai uses space cunningly' – Daily News & Analysis
^ "Bard College Announces Launch of the Center for Moving Image Arts | Bard College Public Relations".
^ "Ashim Ahluwalia revisits a 1969 experiment by Akbar Padamsee". 9 December 2016.
^ 12 October 2005 "Scratch Projection 'Experimenta India'". Les Voutes.
^ San Francisco Film Society Artists-in-Residence Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia Archived 14 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ Bard College Alma Mater
^ "Bard College". Bard College. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
^ Rome-Film-Festival CinemaXXI 2013 Archived 21 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ Phaidon 10 best new filmmakers Archived 12 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine

References

Koehler, Robert. (13 October 2005), "John & Jane". Variety
Stone, Susan (9 March 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 15 November 2011

External links

Ashim Ahluwalia at IMDb
John & Jane: HBO Website
John & Jane: Official Website John & Jane: Official Website

[53rdawardPDF-1] "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals.

[Official_Selection-2] "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 21 April 2012.

[timesofindia-3] "Indian movie Miss Lovely at Cannes film fest". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 April 2012.^{[dead link‍]}

[4] "61st National Film Awards Announced: Live Update". Zee News. Retrieved 16 April 2014.

[5] The Filter

[6] DNA – 'I don't need SRK to make a Hindi movie

[7] Tate Modern Film

[8] DNA – Salon – 'Mumbai uses space cunningly' – Daily News & Analysis

[9] "Bard College Announces Launch of the Center for Moving Image Arts | Bard College Public Relations".

[10] "Ashim Ahluwalia revisits a 1969 experiment by Akbar Padamsee". 9 December 2016.

[11] 12 October 2005 "Scratch Projection 'Experimenta India'". Les Voutes.

[12] San Francisco Film Society Artists-in-Residence Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia Archived 14 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[13] Bard College Alma Mater

[14] "Bard College". Bard College. Retrieved 4 May 2012.

[15] Rome-Film-Festival CinemaXXI 2013 Archived 21 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[16] Phaidon 10 best new filmmakers Archived 12 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine

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+'''Ashim Ahluwalia''' (born 1972 in [[Mumbai, India]]) is a film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the feature-length documentary ''John & Jane'' (2005), which had a world premiere at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]] and a European premiere at the [[Berlin International Film Festival]], and won him the [[53rd National Film Awards|2005]] [[National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director]].<ref name="53rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/53rd_nff_2006.pdf|title=53rd National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|accessdate=}}</ref> This was followed by his first narrative feature film ''[[Miss Lovely]]'', premiered at the [[2012 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Official Selection">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58878.html |title=2012 Official Selection |accessdate=21 April 2012 |work=Cannes}}</ref><ref name="timesofindia">{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-20/news-interviews/31373565_1_indian-film-competition-section-moonrise-kingdom |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=Indian movie ''Miss Lovely'' at Cannes film fest |accessdate=21 April 2012 }}{{dead link|date=October 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref> which won him India's [[National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature Film)|National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature film)]], and [[National Film Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]] at the [[61st National Film Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|title=61st National Film Awards Announced: Live Update|url=http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/and-more/61st-national-film-awards-announced-live-update_153657.html|publisher=[[Zee News]]|accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref>
-| awards                  ='''[[Indian National Film Award]]'''<br />2007 – Best Non-Fiction Film, John & Jane}}
-'''Ashim Ahluwalia''' (born 1972 in [[Bombay, India]]) is a [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]]. He made his directorial debut with the feature-length documentary ''John & Jane'' (2005), which had a world premiere at the [[Toronto Film Festival]] and a European premiere at the [[Berlin International Film Festival]], and won him the [[53rd National Film Awards|2005]] [[National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director]].<ref name="53rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/53rd_nff_2006.pdf|title=53rd National Film Awards|format=PDF|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|accessdate=}}</ref> This was followed by his first narrative feature film ''[[Miss Lovely]]'' which premiered at the [[2012 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Official Selection">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58878.html |title=2012 Official Selection |accessdate=2012-04-21 |work=Cannes}}</ref><ref name="timesofindia">{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-20/news-interviews/31373565_1_indian-film-competition-section-moonrise-kingdom |title=Indian movie ''Miss Lovely'' at Cannes film fest |accessdate=2012-04-21 |work=Times of India |deadurl=yes}} {{Dead link|date=September 2013|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref>
-Working outside the mainstream [[Bollywood]] film system,<ref>[http://thelondonfilter.blogspot.com/search?q=john+and+jane The Filter<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Ashim Ahluwalia is one of a new generation of Indian directors which prefers to eschew working with Hindi [[movie stars|film stars]].<ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/report09.php?NewsID=1010653&CatID=7 DNA - 'I don't need SRK to make a Hindi movie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
+Working outside the mainstream [[Bollywood]] film system,<ref>[http://thelondonfilter.blogspot.com/search?q=john+and+jane The Filter<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Ashim Ahluwalia is part of a new generation of Indian directors.<ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/report09.php?NewsID=1010653&CatID=7 DNA – 'I don't need SRK to make a Hindi movie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-His unconventional films blur the lines between documentary and fiction. His short films have shown at the [[Tate Modern]],<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/9239.htm Tate Modern|Film|Shai Heredia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> the [[Centre Pompidou]] and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.<ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1050602 DNA - Salon - 'Mumbai uses space cunningly' - Daily News & Analysis<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
+His unconventional films blur the lines between documentary and fiction. His short films have shown at the [[Tate Modern]],<ref>[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120203094030/http:/www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/9239.htm Tate Modern Film]</ref> the [[Centre Pompidou]] and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.<ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1050602 DNA – Salon – 'Mumbai uses space cunningly' – Daily News & Analysis<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-==Early life==
+==Early life and education==
-Ashim Ahluwalia grew up in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], [[India]]. He attended the city's [[Cathedral and John Connon School]] before moving on to [[Bard College]] in upstate [[New York]], where he graduated in filmmaking in 1995.
+Ashim Ahluwalia grew up in [[Mumbai]], India. He attended the city's [[Cathedral and John Connon School]] before attending [[Bard College]] in upstate [[New York City|New York]], from which he graduated with a BA in [[filmmaking]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2451 | title=Bard College Announces Launch of the Center for Moving Image Arts &#124; Bard College Public Relations }}</ref>
 ==Career==
-Ahluwalia began his film career with a series of experimental films made between 1993-2002.
+Ahluwalia began his film career with a series of experimental films made between 1993 and 2002.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/ashim-ahluwalia-revisits-1969-experiment-akbar-padamsee/ | title=Ashim Ahluwalia revisits a 1969 experiment by Akbar Padamsee | date=9 December 2016 }}</ref>
 His first short, ''The Dust'' (1993), was made by reworking [[home movies]] shot by his grandfather in the 1950s.<ref>12 October 2005 [http://www.lesvoutes.org/Archives/oct05.htm "Scratch Projection 'Experimenta India'"]. ''Les Voutes''.</ref>
 He formed an independent production company, Future East, in 2005, providing an infrastructure for him to work outside mainstream film channels.
-Ahluwalia was selected by the [[San Francisco Film Society]] as their Artist in Residence for 2013.<ref>San Francisco Film Society [http://sffs.org/Education/Artist-in-Residence/Past-Artists-in-Residence/Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia.aspx Artists-in-Residence Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia]</ref>
+Ahluwalia was selected by the [[San Francisco Film Society]] as their Artist in Residence for 2013.<ref>San Francisco Film Society [http://sffs.org/Education/Artist-in-Residence/Past-Artists-in-Residence/Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia.aspx Artists-in-Residence Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214075816/http://sffs.org/Education/Artist-in-Residence/Past-Artists-in-Residence/Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia.aspx |date=14 December 2013 }}</ref>
-In May 2013, he received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from [[Bard College]], his alma mater.<ref>Bard College [http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2415 Alma Mater]</ref>  The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to artistic or literary heritage."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bard.edu/catalogue/index.php?aid=11104&sid=669293;– Bard College Catalogue| publisher= Bard College|title=Bard College| accessdate=May 4, 2012}}</ref>
+In May 2013, he received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from [[Bard College]], his alma mater.<ref>Bard College [http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2415 Alma Mater]</ref> The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to artistic or literary heritage."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bard.edu/catalogue/index.php?aid=11104&sid=669293|title=Bard College|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Bard College|access-date=4 May 2012}}</ref>
-In November 2013, he was selected to be on the Jury of the 8th edition of the [[Rome Film Festival]] for the CinemaXXI section.<ref>Rome-Film-Festival [http://www.romacinemafest.it/ecm/web/fcr/en/home/rome-film-festival-viii-edition/juries/ashim-ahluwalia CinemaXXI 2013]</ref>
+In November 2013, he was selected to be on the jury of the 8th edition of the [[Rome Film Festival]] for the CinemaXXI section.<ref>Rome-Film-Festival [http://www.romacinemafest.it/ecm/web/fcr/en/home/rome-film-festival-viii-edition/juries/ashim-ahluwalia CinemaXXI 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121103407/http://www.romacinemafest.it/ecm/web/fcr/en/home/rome-film-festival-viii-edition/juries/ashim-ahluwalia |date=21 November 2013 }}</ref>
-Ahluwalia was named "one of the ten best emerging film directors working today" by [[Phaidon Press]] in "Take 100: The Future of Film."<ref>phaidon [http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/art/picture-galleries/2010/august/19/cameron-bailey-and-piers-handling-select-10-best-new-filmmakers/ 10 best new filmmakers]</ref>
+In 2010, Ahluwalia was named "one of the ten best emerging film directors working today" by [[Phaidon Press]] in "Take 100: The Future of Film".<ref>Phaidon [http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/art/picture-galleries/2010/august/19/cameron-bailey-and-piers-handling-select-10-best-new-filmmakers/ 10 best new filmmakers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212011737/http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/art/picture-galleries/2010/august/19/cameron-bailey-and-piers-handling-select-10-best-new-filmmakers/ |date=12 December 2013 }}</ref>
 == Filmography ==
-=== Feature films ===
+=== Films ===
-* ''John & Jane'' (2006)
+* ''[[Thin Air (1999 film)|Thin Air]]'' (1999)
+* ''[[John & Jane]]'' (2005)
 * ''[[Miss Lovely]]'' (2012)
+* ''[[Events in A Cloud Chamber]]'' (2016)
+* ''[[Daddy (2017 film)|Daddy]]'' (2017)
+* ''[[The Field Guide to Evil]]'' (2018)
+=== Web series ===
+* ''[[Class (2023 TV series)|Class]]'' (Season 1) on [[Netflix]] (2023)
+== Awards ==
-=== Short films and installations ===
+* [[Indian National Film Award]] (2007) - Best Non-Fiction Film for John & Jane
-* ''The Dust'' (1993)
+* [[Indian National Film Award]] (2013) - Special Jury Award (Feature Film) for [[Miss Lovely]]
-* ''A Short Season'' (1995)
+* [[Indian National Film Award]] (2013) - Best Production Design for [[Miss Lovely]]
-* ''Thin Air'' (1999)
-* ''Development Plan'' (2007) with artist Neha Choksi and Architect Kapil Gupta (Installation for 10th Venice Architecture Biennale)
 ==Notes==
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 ==References==
-*Koehler, Robert. (October 13, 2005), [http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=features2006&content=jump&jump=review&head=berlin&nav=RBerlin&articleid=VE1117928553&cs=1&p=0 "John & Jane"]. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''
+*Koehler, Robert. (13 October 2005), [https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=features2006&content=jump&jump=review&head=berlin&nav=RBerlin&articleid=VE1117928553&cs=1&p=0 "John & Jane"]. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''
-*Stone, Susan (March 9, 2006), [http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,403861,00.html "Indian by Day, American by Night"]. ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.
+*Stone, Susan (9 March 2006), [http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,403861,00.html "Indian by Day, American by Night"]. ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.
-*Pasolini, Antonio. [http://www.kamera.co.uk/article.php/644 "Dispatch: The Osnabrück Media Art Festival, Germany, 10-14 May 2006"]. kamera.co.uk. Retrieved November 15, 2011
+*Pasolini, Antonio. [http://www.kamera.co.uk/article.php/644 "Dispatch: The Osnabrück Media Art Festival, Germany, 10–14 May 2006"]. kamera.co.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2011
 == External links ==
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-* John & Jane: HBO Website [http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/johnandjanetollfree/index.html]
+* [http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/johnandjanetollfree/index.html John & Jane: HBO Website ]
-* John & Jane: Official Website [http://www.john-and-jane.com]
+* John & Jane: Official Website [http://www.john-and-jane.com John & Jane: Official Website]
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v t e National Film Award for Best Production Design
1980	Jayoo Patwardhan (1980)
1981–2000	Meera Lakhia (1981) Manzoor (1982) Nitish Roy (1983) Nitish Roy (1984) Nachiket Patwardhan and Jayoo Patwardhan (1985) Sham Bhutker (1986) P. Krishnamoorthy (1987) Thota Tharani (1988) T. Vaikundam (1989) P. Krishnamoorthy (1990) Nitish Roy (1991) Samir Chanda (1992) Samir Chanda (1993) Suresh Sawant (1994) Sabu Cyril (1995) Sabu Cyril (1996) Thota Tharani (1997) Ramesh Desai (1998) Nitin Chandrakant Desai (1999) P. Krishnamoorthy (2000)
2001–present	Nitin Chandrakant Desai (2001) Nitin Chandrakant Desai (2002) Indranil Ghosh and Sharmishta Roy (2003) Samir Chanda (2004) C. B. More (2005) Rashid Rangrez (2006) Sabu Cyril (2007) Gautam Sen (2008) Samir Chanda (2009) Sabu Cyril (2010) Indranil Ghosh (2011) Boontawee 'Thor', Taweepasas and N. Ilayaraja (2012) Ashim Ahluwalia, Tabasheer Zutshi and Parichit Paralkar (2013) Aparna Raina (2014) Shriram Iyengar, Saloni Dhatrak, and Sujeet Sawant (2015) Subrata Chakraborthy, Shreyas Khedekar, and Amit Ray (2016) Santhosh Raman (2017) Vinesh Banglan (2018) Nilesh Wagh and Sunil Nigwekar (2019) Anees Nadodi (2020) Dmitri Malich-Konkov and Mansri Dhruv Mehta (2021) Ananda Addhya (2022)