Ashim Ahluwalia
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| Born | 1972 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer & screenwriter |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Awards | Indian National Film Award 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 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 which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3]
Working outside the mainstream Bollywood film system,[4] Ashim Ahluwalia is one of a new generation of Indian directors which prefers to eschew working with Hindi film stars.[5] His unconventional films blur the lines between documentary and fiction. His short films have shown at the Tate Modern,[6] the Centre Pompidou and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.[7]
Early life
Ashim Ahluwalia grew up in 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.
Career
Ahluwalia began his film career with a series of experimental films made between 1993-2002. His first short, The Dust (1993), was made by reworking home movies shot by his grandfather in the 1950s.[8]
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.[9]
In May 2013, he received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, his alma mater.[10] The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to artistic or literary heritage."[11]
In November 2013, he was selected to be on the Jury of the 8th edition of the Rome Film Festival for the CinemaXXI section.[12]
Ahluwalia was named "one of the ten best emerging film directors working today" by Phaidon Press in "Take 100: The Future of Film."[13]
Filmography
Feature films
- John & Jane (2006)
- Miss Lovely (2012)
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)
Notes
- ^ "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals.
- ^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
- ^ "Indian movie Miss Lovely at Cannes film fest". Times of India. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ San Francisco Film Society Artists-in-Residence Spring-2013-Ashim-Ahluwalia
- ^ Bard College Alma Mater
- ^ Bard College Catalogue "Bard College". Bard College. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
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- ^ Phaidon 10 best new filmmakers
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
External links
- Ashim Ahluwalia at IMDb
- John & Jane: HBO Website
- John & Jane: Official Website John & Jane: Official Website
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