Mumbai: Director Ashim Ahluwalia's 'Miss Lovely' was named the best film in the 'India Gold' category of the 14th Mumbai Film Festival. It also won 'Reliance Media Works CreaTech (Creativity & Technology) Award' as the eight-day cine extragvanza concluded Thursday here.
While Hansal Mehta's 'Shahid' was the runner-up in the same category, the special jury award was given to Manjeet Singh for 'Mumbai Cha Raja'.
'Here And There' was being recognised as the best film in the 'International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors' category. Dwight Henry was given the best actor award for 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and best actress in the same category was given to Julia Garner for 'Electrick Children'.
The jury award of technical excellence was awarded to Pankaj Kumar for 'Ship Of Theseus' while Musa Sayeed was given the special jury award for the film 'Valley Of Saints'....
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11:37 AM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Director Ashim Ahluwalia, whose film 'Miss Lovely' is being showcased at the Toronto International Film Festival, says returning to the festival feels like homecoming as his maiden project was also screened there. "My first film 'John and Jane' went to Toronto and that was the first international festival I attended. It was a place of great support at a time when I really needed it. It's great to...
03:12 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Cannes: The longest-running entry in this year's Cannes festival, a five-hour Indian gangster epic, won a warm welcome at the Riviera event, even drawing parallels with Quentin Tarantino. Anurag Kashyap, who directed the five hour 20 minute 'Gangs of Wasseypur', described the film to AFP as 'a Bollywood-influenced gangster epic, part Western, part documentary.' With a folk-meets-dubstep soundtrack and a basis in true stories, the film follows three generations of...
01:08 PM, May 26, 2012
National award-winner Ashim Ahluwalia's 'Miss Lovely', is being showcased in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes film festival this year. ...
06:08 PM, May 22, 2012
Mumbai: Despite not having found a release date in India yet, Miss Lovely is already in the process of paving its way for an international release. Being extremely busy with the films post-production in Berlin, which will be followed by sending his film to the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia admits that he doesnt have the time to look into the procedures that are required to find a release...
04:04 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Ashim Ahluwalia's 'Miss Lovely' has been selected to be screened at Cannes this year and the excited director is headed to the French Riviera with the film's cast next month. Being the only Indian entry at Cannes 2012, the film will be shown in competition as part of the Un Certain Regard section which presents movies with different visions and styles seeking international recognition. "It is great that...
04:47 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Cannes: Indian filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia's movie 'Miss Lovely' has been selected to represent India in the non-competitive section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. However, no Indian film has made it to the competition section of the extravaganza. Ahluwalia's movie is set in the lower depths of Mumbai's 'C' grade film industry and follows the story of two brothers, who are producers of sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s. 'Miss...
06:26 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Dev Benegal of English August fame has been roped in to judge the entries in the short film section of the 12th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), starting on 21st October Aimed at the youth (of Mumbai) under 25, the new section called Dimensions Mumbai includes films on the maximum city by aspiring directors. Besides Benegal, it will also be judged by Bishaka Dutta, Brahmanand S. Singh, Ashim Ahuluwalia and Manish...
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