Ryan Westra and Vishavjit Singh teamed up on AMERICAN SIKH to convey extra various illustration and experiences into immediately’s media and to problem perceptions of what an American (and a superhero) can appear like. 2023 Academy Award winner Guneet Monga Kapoor (Elephant Whisperer) and one in every of Vanity Fair’s prime ten chef’s Vika Khanna serve as Executive Producers for this vital film.
Guneet Monga Kapoor and Vikas Khanna join forces as executive producers for OSCAR qualified animated short film American Sikh
Vishavjit Singh is publicly recognized for his Captain America persona — a Sikh man geared up along with his turban and beard — combating in opposition to bigotry, intolerance and perceptions of what an American ought to appear like. But Singh, the one member of his household born within the U.S., didn’t at all times really feel he might embrace his identification this fashion.
The true and unlikely story of an American born, turban-carrying Sikh man, Vishavjit Singh, who after a lifetime of going through prejudice, self-doubt and violence, lastly finds acceptance in a superhero costume.
Guneet Monga Kapoor is a trailblazing filmmaker, not solely is she the primary producer in India to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Elephant Whisperer, she can also be one of many first producers from India to be invited into the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science. Guneet is the founding father of Sikhya Entertainment, a Mumbai-based manufacturing home. She has produced near 30 characteristic movies together with floor-breaking cinema such as Lunchbox, Monsoon Shootout and Massan. This unimaginable girl was additionally one of many Executive Producers behind PERIOD END OF SENTENCE, which received an Academy Award in 2019.
Vikas Khanna is an internationally acclaimed Indian American chef, filmmaker, and writer. He is a James Beard nominee and one of many first Indian cooks to be awarded a Michelin Star within the U.S. He has featured amongst the 10 most influential cooks on the earth by Vanity Fair. Vikas is the writer of 41 award successful books, and the creator of Holy Kitchens creating consciousness of Sikhism by means of group kitchens. The Last Color marks Khanna’s debut as a film author and director, which raised consciousness of the disinheritance of widows, while BAREFOOT EMPRESS focussed on training for ladies in India.
American Sikh was created in partnership with Singh as the director/producer and Los Angeles-based director Ryan Westra. It was animated by Studio Showoff, a Melbourne-based manufacturing home based by Ivan Dixon and Sean Zwan that has produced work for Childish Gambino, HBO and Cartoon Network.
Director Ryan Westra has been lucky to seize many highly effective and vital tales. He’s travelled rural Punjab capturing undocumented tales of a Sikh genocide, documented the battle of indigenous peoples in opposition to oil corporations in Montana, adopted the HIV/AIDS outreach work of an NGO in Mozambique, edited an HBO characteristic documentary on reproductive rights, filmed the depth of para-athletes pushing their limits, shot content material for Headspace round a monastery within the Himalayas about mindfulness, shot a documentary about re-housing probably the most at-danger homeless in Los Angeles, and has had minor roles on Netflix and HBO sequence that take care of wrongful conviction and bringing cult leaders to justice.
Director/Producer Vishavjit Singh is a New York City based mostly illustrator, author, efficiency artist, variety speaker and creator of Sikhtoons.com. He acquired his spark for cartooning within the publish 9/11 tragedy when Americans with turbaned and bearded countenance grew to become targets of hate/bias crimes. For the previous few years Vishavjit has been touring throughout the U.S. along with his Sikh Captain America persona armed with a turban, beard and humor to sort out concern, anxiousness, bigotry and intolerance. He makes use of storytelling as a instrument to create an area for difficult conversations round identification, race, bias, vulnerability and the way to be brokers for change. Vishavjit hosts talks & keynotes in colleges, universities, authorities businesses and corporations together with Google, Apple, NASA & Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. His message and work has been lined by plenty of information shops, together with the New York Times, NPR, BBC, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, The Guardian and Time Magazine.
Not solely was this unimaginable film featured on Good Morning America and CNN, in simply over a month it received 4 prime film awards together with Best Short Animation at Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Alabama, Best Animation at San Diego International Film Festival, Grand Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at Tasveer Film Festival in Seattle and the Audience Choice Award at Tasveer Film Festival. AMERICAN SIKH additionally obtained a particular point out at Chicago International Film Festival in Best Short Documentary and an Honorable Mention at Tallgrass Film Festival in Documentary Short Film.
American Sikh has qualified to be thought-about for a 2024 Academy® Award.
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