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Aruna Vasudev, NETPAC Founder and Asian Cinema Champion, Dies at 88
Aruna Vasudev, founder of NETPAC and Asian cinema champion, has died. She was 88.
Aruna Vasudev, founder of publication Cinemaya and the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema ( NETPAC), died on Thursday of multiple age-related ailments in New Delhi, India. “We are all orphans of our ‘Mother of Asian Cinema,’ as we all affectionately called her,” said Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne, directors and co-founders of the Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul. Actor Shabani Azmi posted on Instagram: “She was the pioneer for making Asian films a genre to be talked about as a separate identity of its own.
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