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Payal Kapadia Joins South Asian Documentary Collective for Pioneering Lab Initiative (EXCLUSIVE)
Cannes winner Payal Kapadia joins South Asian documentary collective for pioneering film lab initiative in Delhi.
I realized one of the glaring gaps was the dearth of creative producing talent in South Asia,” noted Dutta, whose film “ Nocturnes ” premiered at Sundance 2024 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, where it won a special jury Award. Rothe underscored the timeliness of the initiative: “In recent years, the documentary filmmaking landscape in South Asia has been shifting, and it’s become urgent to build producers within our countries and explore funding models that make us more self-reliant.” Anu Rangachar, a longtime programmer at Mumbai’s MAMI who headed their international program, founded Gratitude Films in the U.S., initially partnering with LA-based ‘Deaf Crocodile’ to champion Indian arthouse cinema titles.
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