Hietsu Mini Film Festival su 25.8 klo 15-20
Erityisvieraana ohjaaja, käsikirjoittaja Avie Luthra.
Director, Screenwriter, Avie Luthra as special guest.
Huomio elokuvissa ei ole suomalaista tekstitystä. Elokuvien kieli englanti.
Free Entrance / Vapaa pääsy
FIRST PART: NOTIONS OF BRITISHNESS 15:00-17:30
15:00 Welcoming words
15:15 -15:40 – Somewhere Else (1992) 25 minutes
“Winner of Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival Award – Most popular short film 1993.”
Writer/producer/director Avie Luthra – 8 mm, 25 minutes
Where are you from? Avie’s first 8 mm amateur totally non-budget experimental short explores the question of ethnic identity and racism and became the most popular film in Edinburg Fringe Festival.
15:45 -15:55 – Family Business (1993) 10 minutes.
“Selected in Best of British Shorts, British Short Film Festival 1994.”
Writer/director Avie Luthra – 16 mm, 10 minutes.
A spoof study of a Scottish Asian entrepreneur who runs a marriage bureau using video instructions. The film examines the problems of traditional Asian values set in a British context.
16:00 -16:20 – Cross My Heart (2002) 20 minutes.
Winner of C4/Red Productions’ Northern Soul script competition 2000
*Special commendation – London Film Fest TCM shorts competition 2002
*Special commendation from BFI’s ImagineAsia 2002
Writer / director Avie Luthra.
When Ajay introduces his black girlfriend to Uncle Vikram the shock kills him instantly! A strange will, a few white lies and a video tape lead to uproar in the Asian community. But will Ajay get to keep everything he so desperately wants?
16:30 -17:30 – Indian Dream (2003) 60 minutes.
Winner BBC’s Dennis Potter Award, 2001
*Nominee – Best TV Film – Monte Carlo TV Fest.
Writer Avie Luthra / Director: Roger Golby / Producer: Eleanor Greene.
What should have been the trip of a lifetime is turned upside down when Surender loses his passport and is arrested at customs as an illegal immigrant.
17:30 – 18:00 – Break
SECOND PART: THE KIDS WILL BE ALRIGHT 18:00-20:00
18:00 – 18:15 – Baby (2002) 12 minutes
Winner of Royal TV Society Award, Best Student Fiction Film 2002
Director Avie Luthra – 16mm. 12 min
Alice lives with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. She is quite immature but when she is given a bag of flour to look after as part of sex education class at school she begins to take it too seriously. However this changes her views on life to her mother’s concern.
18:15 – 18:20 – Introduction to Lucky
18:20 – 20:00 – Lucky (2012) 100 minutes
Best Film – Bengaluru International Film Festival
Best Actress – Jayashree Basavaraj, Abu Dhabi Film Festival WINNER – Best Crossover Film – London Asian Film Festival
Special Mention Award – Cape Winelands Film Festival
Writer/director Avie Luthra / Producers: Lance Samuels Christopher J. Wilmot
LUCKY is based upon the 2005 short of the same name, which was nominated for 43 international awards and short-listed for an Oscar. LUCKY stars accomplished Indian actress Jayashree Basavaraj, introduces Sihle Dlamini as ‘Lucky’, and co-stars James Ngcobo, Vusi Kunene and Jabu Tshabalala. The film is in Zulu and Hindi with English subtitles and stands out as a groundbreaking example of cross-cultural filmmaking in Africa.
AFTER PARTY: 20:00-23:00
LUCKY (2011)
MAD SAD & BAD (2009)
THE PROSPECT (2007 / 2009)
LUCKY (2005)
TORN (2005)
ONE NIGHT IN BHOPAL (2004)
A- (2004)
BLOODY FOREIGNERS: (2003)
INDIAN DREAM (2003)
THE CANTERBURY TALES: (2003) “The Sea Captain’s Tale”
CROSS MY HEART (2002)
BABY (2002)
SHOPKEEPING (1998)
LOVE FROM ABOVE (1995)
FAMILY BUSINESS (1994)
SOMEWHERE ELSE (1993)
Avie Luthra on Lontoossa asuva brittiläisintialainen psykiatri ja palkittu käsikirjoittaja ja elokuvaohjaaja, joka on tehnyt lyhytelokuvia, elokuvia, TV-draamaa, dokumentteja ja radio-ohjelmia. Hän on valmistunut sekä lääketieteellisestä Edinburghin yliopistosta ja elokuvakoulun (The National Film and Television School, UK) ohjauskurssilta. Vuonna 2002 hän voitti BBC:n Dennis Potter -käsikirjoituspalkinnon ja hänet listattiin Screen Internationalin ”Huomisen tähdet” 2004-sarjassa.
Avien lyhytelokuva Lucky (2005) sai puolisen sataa palkinto ja nimettiin sekä BAFTA (2006) ja Oscar (2007) ehdokkuuteen (2007). Hietsun paviljongilla nähdään nyt Suomen ensi-illassa lyhytelokuvan pohjalta tehty pitkä elokuva ”Onnekas” (2011) sekä muuta Avien tuotantoa ensi kertaa Suomessa.
Avie Luthra is London based British Indian psychiatrist and award-winning drama writer and movie director, who has worked in short films, features, TV drama, documentaries and radio. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and graduated from the Director’s Course at the National Film and Television School, UK. In 2002 he won the BBC’s Dennis Potter Award for new writing. He was listed in Screen International’s ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ 2004. Avie’s short film Lucky (2005) received half a hundred awards and was nominated for both BAFTA (2006) and Oscar (2007).
The Finnish premiere of the later feature film “Lucky” (2011), as well as some of his other films will be shown for the first time in Finland at the Hietsu pavilion.
Järjestäjä: Töölön kaupunginosat – Töölö Ry. & Hietsun paviljonki
