17TH ANNUAL TASVEER SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILM FUND MENTORS & LIVE PITCH JUDGES

In its third 12 months, the Tasveer Movie Fund (TFF) continues to empower South Asian filmmakers to deliver their scripts to life. The profitable 4 filmmakers will obtain a complete of $50k in funds, and yearlong mentorship from a sturdy cohort of business advisors. Mentors providing steering on their productions embody producers Stephanie Caleb, Milan Chakraborty, Neeraj Churi, Priya Giri Desai, and Guneet Monga, filmmakers Sushmit Ghosh, Nardeep Khurmi, and Geeta Malik, intimacy coordinator Neha Vyaso, movie pageant veteran Masashi Niwano and leisure lawyer Kamran Khan.  

“In an business the place viability and visibility is so tough, and much more so for individuals of coloration, it is inspiring to see what the Tasveer Movie Fund is doing,” mentioned Milan Chakraborty of Marginal Media. “I am excited to work with the staff to assist the subsequent technology of storytellers.”

Through the pageant, Tasveer will host a dwell pitch occasion to find out the award winners in every class, together with Narrative Brief ($10,000), LGBTQIA+ Narrative Brief ($10,000), Documentary ($15,000), and Narrative Characteristic ($15,000). Judges for the dwell pitch occasion embody business insiders Apoorva Bakshi, Bedatri A. Choudhury, Nina Chaudry, Bianca Harlow, Sheila Houlahan, Jasmine Jaisinghani, David Magdael, Devashish Makhija, Raj Raghavvan, Ameet Shukla and Soumya Sundaresh.

“I am so thrilled Tasveer has put collectively this movie fund,” says actor, author and producer Sheila Houlahan. “All of the DEIs on the earth are meaningless till we put precise capital behind concepts created by individuals of coloration.”

The winners of the 2022 Tasveer Movie Fund shall be introduced on the Closing Gala of the Tasveer South Asian Movie Pageant, after the World Premieres of the 2021 Movie Fund winners BEPAR, DOS BROS FORCE, and ZINDAGI DOBARA. A Closing Reception will observe. https://bit.ly/3CSOLBN

Tasveer South Asian Movie Pageant incorporates a document variety of movies this 12 months, together with potential Oscar contender ALL THAT BREATHES, Opening movie FOUR SAMOSAS and Centerpiece movie, GOLDFISH, in addition to LITTLE ENGLISH which is making its World Premiere on the pageant.

SOURCE Tasveer