Arunachali film to be screened in US
"Sonam", dealing with polyandry among yak shepherds, to be screened at Film Fest in Los Angeles.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: "Sonam", the first feature film made in a dialect of Arunachal Pradesh and dealing with polyandry among yak shepherds, has been selected for screening at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles and Washington.
Ahsan Muzid's two-hour-long film in the Monpa dialect will figure in the festival scheduled to be held during September 27-30 in Los Angeles and October 4-7 in Washington.
"The festival was launched in 2004 as an initiative to provide a platform for showcasing the work of indigenous and underrepresented minority culture filmmakers from around the world to a mass audience," said Francene J Blythe, director of the All Roads Film Project.
Muzid will be able to introduce his film, answer audience questions after the screening and be available for interviews, workshops and panel discussions, Blythe said.
Based on a popular Assamese novel of the same name, written by Sahitya Akademi winner Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi, "Sonam" (The Fortunate One) has represented the country in the Asian, African and Latin American competition section of the 37th International Film Festival of India last year.
It took Muzid and his crew 45 days of gruelling trekking and travelling at heights of 8,000 feet to 15,000 feet to complete the film.
"'Sonam' is about the lifestyle of Brokpas (yak herders among the Monpa tribe) in the high altitude Himalayas. It deals with the subject of love, hatred and jealousy that can breed between two husbands of a Monpa woman," Muzid said.
Ahsan Muzid's two-hour-long film in the Monpa dialect will figure in the festival scheduled to be held during September 27-30 in Los Angeles and October 4-7 in Washington.
"The festival was launched in 2004 as an initiative to provide a platform for showcasing the work of indigenous and underrepresented minority culture filmmakers from around the world to a mass audience," said Francene J Blythe, director of the All Roads Film Project.
Muzid will be able to introduce his film, answer audience questions after the screening and be available for interviews, workshops and panel discussions, Blythe said.
Based on a popular Assamese novel of the same name, written by Sahitya Akademi winner Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi, "Sonam" (The Fortunate One) has represented the country in the Asian, African and Latin American competition section of the 37th International Film Festival of India last year.
It took Muzid and his crew 45 days of gruelling trekking and travelling at heights of 8,000 feet to 15,000 feet to complete the film.
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"'Sonam' is about the lifestyle of Brokpas (yak herders among the Monpa tribe) in the high altitude Himalayas. It deals with the subject of love, hatred and jealousy that can breed between two husbands of a Monpa woman," Muzid said.
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