Trio Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga and Tahira Kashyap Khurrana not too long ago introduced their endeavour – a cinema collective named Indian Women Rising in an effort to advertise and intensify Indian feminine content material creators throughout the globe. As their first project, the initiative has chosen to help the internationally acclaimed brief movie Bittu the place the collective will put its muscle to help the movie’s marketing campaign on the Oscars run.
Directed by Karishma Dev Dube, a previous Dean’s fellow from NYU, the unreleased Bittu has bagged the honour of the 47th ‘Student Academy Award’ and is now set to run the race for the Oscar for Short Film Category.
Inspired by the notorious faculty poisoning of 2013, Bittu explores the shut friendship between two faculty ladies on this seemingly regular day at college. Set within the picturesque places towards the backdrop of Himalayas, Bittu follows the story of an eight-12 months-outdated who should take issues into her personal arms when her neighborhood fails to guard its most weak.
Backing the movie as its first project beneath the initiative of Indian Women Rising, Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga and Tahira Kashyap Khurrana have pledged to empower this story introduced by a powerful group of girls comprising of Karishma Dev Dube as the director, Shreya Dev Dube as the cinematographer and Mary Evangelista as the producer.
Indian Women Rising, a cinema collective is set to find, nurture and shine highlight on Indian feminine expertise in cinema throughout the globe, pushing the movie’s journey to develop its scope of promoting, gross sales and distribution.
Talking concerning the collection of Bittu, Indian Women Rising in a joint assertion shared, Bittu is a straightforward but an extremely impactful story. We resonated with the story introduced by feminine creators, with Karishma Dev Dube, Shreya Dube and Mary Evangelista coming collectively as a group. With ‘Indian Women Rising’, our is intention to have the ability to present the required thrust to potential tales with a purpose to obtain increased targets, Bittu appeared the best alternative for our first project with its refined story and immaculate presentation and we plan to shine highlight on the movie as it joins the run for Oscars in Best Live Action Short class.”
Director Karishma Dev Dube shares, “Bittu stems from sure elements of my life in boarding faculty in Dehradun- my most formative friendships in and typically my tough relationship with authority. At its core nevertheless, the movie is a re-creativeness of the notorious 2013 faculty poisoning in Bihar, by the eyes of Bittu, a fierce and brilliantly foul-mouthed eight 12 months outdated lady. The movie is much less about why and how the poisoning occurred, as an alternative it makes an attempt to carry to life an in any other case forgotten neighborhood within the foothills of the Himalayas. We’ve had an unimaginable journey with Bittu, we had been honored with the Student Academy Award final 12 months and proceed to discover new worlds with our proud partnership with IWR- an initiative a lot wanted in India.”
Presented by Indian Women Rising, a cinema collective, Bittu is a short film that won the Student’s Oscar (Silver medal). The film screened at several prestigious film festivals including the BFI London Film Festival, Telluride, Palm Springs Shortfest & Dharmshala Film Festival to name just a few.
At Hollyshorts Film Festival, the director Karishma Dev Dube won the best director award.
Now backed by the trio at IWR, Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga and Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Bittu is competing for the Best Live Action Short Film award at the 2021 Oscars.
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