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Sundance-Winning ‘Cactus Pears’ Director Rohan Kanawade Signs With Cinetic Media (EXCLUSIVE)
Rohan Kanawade, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner for 'Cactus Pears,' signs with Cinetic Media for representation as film heads to U.S. theaters.
Following his historic Sundance Grand Jury Prize win for “ Cactus Pears ” (“Sabar Bonda”), director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade has inked a management deal with Cinetic Media, it was revealed on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival. Kanawade’s debut feature made history as the first Marathi-language film and first Indian fiction title to claim Sundance’s top World Cinema Dramatic Competition honor this past January. In “Cactus Pears,” a 30-something city dweller named Anand is forced to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in rural western India, where he forms an unexpected bond with a local farmer struggling to remain unmarried.
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