Ashim Ahluwalia

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Ashim Ahluwalia (Born 1972 in Bombay, India) is an independent film director, screenwriter and producer. His first feature-length project, JOHN & JANE (US TITLE: JOHN & JANE TOLL-FREE), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2005. The film was subsequently acquired by HBO Films for US release.[1] JOHN & JANE showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and New Directors/ New Films in New York in 2006. The film won the International award at the European Media Art Festival,[2] A Maysles Brothers Award[3] as well as the Director’s Guild of America Special Jury Award/ VC Filmfest[4]. JOHN & JANE has also won an Indian National Film Award.[5]

Ahluwalia works outside the traditional confines of the "Bollywood" system [6] and his short films have showed at venues such as the Tate Modern in London[7] and Centre Pompidou in Paris. He was commissioned to work on a group film/ architecture installation for the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale.[8]

His films display a preference for experimental structures (JOHN & JANE is a catalogue of six seemingly unrelated characters), often blurring the lines between documentary and fiction.

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http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=features2006&content=jump&jump=review&head=berlin&nav=RBerlin&articleid=VE1117928553&cs=1&p=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/movies/27new.html?ex=1179806400&en=91c7803e2f7cfbae&ei=5070 http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,403861,00.html http://www.kamera.co.uk/article.php/644

External Links: http://www.john-and-jane.com

[edit] References

  1. ^ Anthony Kaufman's blog: "John & Jane" Now "Toll-Free" and Primed for HBO
  2. ^ www.fdk-berlin.de/en/forum/news/news-display/archive/2006/11/article/588/62.html?cHash=0854895c16
  3. ^ Belfast Film Festival 2007
  4. ^ Visual Communications Film Festival 2008 - About Us
  5. ^ THE FEATURE FILM JURY OF THE 53rd NATIONAL FILM AWARDS-2003 RECOMMENDS THE FOLLOWING AWARDS:
  6. ^ The Filter
  7. ^ Tate Modern|Film|Shai Heredia
  8. ^ DNA - Salon - 'Mumbai uses space cunningly' - Daily News & Analysis