Summary
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]
Ashim Ahluwalia | |
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 Ashim Ahluwalia, Mumbai 2016 | |
| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Mumbai, India |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer & screenwriter |
| Years active | 1999–present |
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 edit
Ashim Ahluwalia grew up in Bombay, 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 edit
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 edit
Films edit
- 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 edit
Awards edit
- 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 edit
- ^ "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
- ^ https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2451
- ^ "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 edit
- 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 edit
- Ashim Ahluwalia at IMDb
- John & Jane: HBO Website
- John & Jane: Official Website John & Jane: Official Website