🎬✨ The Tasveer Producers Lab is LIVE in LA!
Meet the 2025 cohort, 8 South Asian producers ready to move hearts, challenge norms & shape a more inclusive future for cinema. 💛
Read more: 👉 https://t.co/HIdOl6ByYV
🎬 The Wise Owl Editor Rachna Singh chats with award-winning filmmaker Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda—director of Testimony of Ana (Nat’l Award, Oscar-qualified), Men in Blue (BAFTA-shortlisted), and A Silent Wave (IFFLA 2025).
📷 Here's the powerful chat! https://t.co/X0Lqi7Udvc
So pleased to share this project and to be collaborating with The Salon + @theblcklst to spotlight great South Asian storytelling as a part of #DesiList!!!
Austin Film Society announces its 2024 feature grant recipients with local filmmakers feature heavily among 18 selected projects. https://t.co/4EYQYtgqSi
Announcing the finalists of Launchpad: Pitch Competition!! They will present their project to a panel of distinguished, industry-expert judges in front of a live audience on June 28. One winner will be awarded a $10,000 development grant!
.@UTAustin alumnus Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda’s thesis film “Men in Blue” depicting modern slavery through a fictional retelling of Indian laborer trafficking in 2021 will premiere June 30 at the Austin Asian American Film Festival. The Texan spoke with Mudigonda to discuss his work.
https://t.co/j7F0NNEkfL
Happy Tuesday, Longhorns! In today’s issue:
+ Several students arrested during April’s pro-Palestine protests received letters from the University stating they are under investigation for violating @UTAustin’s Student Code of Conduct
+ @UTAustin alumnus’s thesis film “Men in Blue” depicting modern slavery through a fictional retelling will premiere June 30 at the Austin Asian American Film Festival
+ @TexasLonghorns were awarded the @LDirectorsCup for the third time in four years
All this and more: https://t.co/nrwJ6esCtf
This film spotlights how a volatile combination of poverty, superstition and deeply engrained sexism allows deadly witch hunts to persist in India @Kinostreet1 https://t.co/ymAMpSaF3G
Earlier this month, we hosted our annual AFS Artist Intensive retreat—providing selected filmmakers with mentorship from experienced industry professionals for feature-length narrative films. Tap the link for this year's participants and highlights.
https://t.co/vdI6bcPnJi
Congrats #PraveenaParuchuri and Janani Vijayanathan for making it to the Co-production market. Their film “Mouna Tharangam” is the only #Telugu/English film in the list. Praveena was also the producer of two of my favourite films “C/O Kancherapalem”, “Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya”