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Synopsis The film is unusually well crafted. This kind of narration-driven film can easily get boring, but it has been an exception, said Ashis Chakrabarty, 65, a former officer of the West Bengal information department and a film buff.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
NEW DELHI: Makhan Sengupta, 84, could not hold back his tears neither could his sister Santana Raychaudhuri. Makhan and Santana hail from Perozpur in Barisal. While the whole family moved to India after Partition and the 1950 Barisal riots, their uncle Sudarshan Sengupta refused to leave Barisal.
The Philippine drug war documentary "Aswang" is among the 238 projects eligible for Oscars consideration to be included in the shortlist of 15 films that will be announced on Feb. 9.
"Aswang" is the Philippines' official entry for best documentary at this year's Oscars.
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Aswang, a film that portrays the grim aftermath of President Rodrigo Duterte administration’s war on drugs, is eligible for consideration in the documentary feature category of the 93rd Academy Awards.
The film qualified after winning the prestigious White Goose Award at the 12th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Asia’s largest documentary festival, which took place in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Korea in September 2020.
“I am very grateful to Jomari, Brother Jun Santiago of the Redemptorist Brothers, everyone who shared their lives and stories with us and everyone else that I worked with on this film. I am happy that our efforts to shed light on how vast a problem the drug war is in the Philippines is garnering more attention worldwide,” said Arumpac.
DOCUTAH announces 2021 super festival; cancels postponed 2020 fest The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the film fest circuit extends into 2021 with Dixie State University’s DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival announcing an expanded festival in November.
Organizers, who postponed . February 1, 2021
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the film fest circuit extends into 2021 with Dixie State University’s DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival announcing an expanded festival in November.
Organizers, who postponed the 2020 festival last fall, originally hoped to run its program slate in March, but given the ongoing health crisis, they decided to cancel the postponed festival and instead, in the interest of public safety, to reschedule until fall and instead run a “super festival.”