ACF
Asian Cinema Fund
Asian Network of Documentary(AND) Fund
2014 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund
LIST The Cinema Travellers (aka. Like Ants for Sugar)
| Category | Busan Bank Fund |
|---|---|
| Project | The Cinema Travellers (aka. Like Ants for Sugar) |
| Director | Shirley ABRAHAM, Amit MADHESHIYA |
| Country | India |
| Director's Profile | Shirley Abraham is a researcher and filmmaker, based in Mumbai. Her work on the traveling cinemas of India is narrated through research and artistic interventions - still images, conversations, collages, participatory observation, archival research, and is currently taking shape as a film. She has extensively presented her work through workshops, lectures and showcases, across festivals and universities in Asia, Europe and America, and she has been a fellowship holder of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia Europe in a Global Context’. Her work is supported by the Sundance Institute, Bertha Foundation, CBA WorldView, and the India Foundation for the Arts in partnership with the Goethe-Institut. She has also worked on documentary, script and research projects with Al Jazeera English, Fox Television Studios India, BBC Radio 4, Need Productions Belgium and Walkwater India. |
- Synopsis
- For seven decades, traveling tent cinemas have been the sole venues of movie magic for patrons in rural India. Accompanying the showmen of the touring cinemas on their magical journeys, Like Ants for Sugar unfolds as a visual journey following four protagonists who strive to maintain their places in the vanishing world of the talkies. A low caste farmer, who rose to become a cinema showman, faces a tough decision about the fate of his crumbling cinema lorry. A blind boy struggles to repair his broken cane, so as to be able to travel to his annual cinema show. A rising cinema exhibitor is forced to pawn his wife’s jewellery to keep running his touring cinema. An old projector mechanic waits to sell the dream machine he created - the perfect Indian cinema projector. Bringing an untold story to life from one of the last bastions of touring cinemas in the world, Like Ants for Sugar beautifully portrays a fervent love for the movies that draw us all as a devoted audience.
- Director's Note
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- Festivals
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2016 Busan International Film Festival - Wide Angle_Documentary Showcase
2016 Anchorage International Film Festival - Best Documentary
2016 Batumi International ArtHouse Film Festival - Best Documentary
2016 Cannes Film Festival - Golden Eye (Special Mention)
2016 Hawaii International Film Festival - Halekulani Golden Orchid Award
2016 Mumbai Film Festival - Jury Special Prize, Young Critics Choice Award
2016 New Hampshire Film Festival - Grand Jury Award
2017 National Film Awards, India - National Film Award
2017 Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival - Audience Prize
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