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Annecy-Backed HAF Work-in-Progress Animated Film ‘Heirloom’ Examines the Dark Side of Nostalgia While Celebrating Indian Textiles


Upamanyu Bhattacharya's Indian animation feature 'Heirloom' has the emerged from the crucible of Annecy, one of the world's top animation festivals.

The film is produced by Bhattacharya’s Otter Studios and by Odd & Even Pictures’ Arya A. Menon (“Sacred Games”) and Shubham Karna (“2024”), who are aiming to to meet minority funding and strategic partners at HAF. We hope to release the film to as wide an audience as possible, and to make a lasting example of Indian animation to the world,” Menon and Karna told Variety. Next up for Bhattacharya is a mixed-media animated short set in Goa titled “Windowlim.” Menon and Karna have a feature film with Vir Das, a documentary on the Silkyara Tunnel rescue operation, a feature film with journalist turned writer-director Manu Joseph, an animated series titled “Adarsh Family” and a fiction series called “Doctor Saheb” in the works.

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