Published 13:04 IST, February 10th 2021
'Bittu' director Karishma Dev Dube receives Best Asian American Student Filmmaker Award
Karishma Dev Dube's short film 'Bittu' bags the est Asian American Student Filmmaker Award at the Director's Guild of America. Read for more.
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ding yet ar fear to its cap, Indian Women Rising's inaugural project Bittu has bagged ar hour as Karishma Dev Dube won Best Asian American Student Filmmaker award at Director's Guild of America. Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, and Ruchikaa Kapoor unified to launch Indian Women Rising, a cinema collective, with an aim to discover Indian female talent in cinema and expand its scope of marketing, sales, and distribution pushing boundaries of geographical locations.
Karishma Dev Dube win award for her film Bittu
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Karishma Dev Dube bagged Best Asian American Student Filmmaker Award in East Region for Bittu at 26th Annual DGA Student Film Awards for African American, Asian American, Lati, and women directors, which are designed to hour, encour and bring attention to exceptional diverse directors in film schools and universities across America.
Talking about win, Karishma Dev Dube shared she feels special to be recognised by DGA and is grateful to team of Bittu. She ded that entire team dedicated mselves to protect and encour young les around which story is set and revolves. Karishma felt le took responsibility so seriously which left m inspired ding that she's proud to represent ir work on this platform.
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Indian Women Rising in a joint statement expressed ir joy and said y are extremely proud since Karishma is an incredible storyteller. film Bittu is result of an earnest story and sincere efforts of powerful team behind it and has me a strong impact on team, ding that y would want to share experience with everyone. Recipient of Student's Oscar (Silver medal), Bittu is currently in race for Oscars and is regarded as one of most promising contenders at run.
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maiden presentation of Indian Women Rising, a cinema collective, internationally acclaimed Bittu has been screened at several prestigious film festivals including BFI London Film Festival, Telluride, Palm Springs Shortfest & Dharmshala Film Festival to name just a few.
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13:04 IST, February 10th 2021