Hindi Movie nominated for Oscar

“Kavi”, directed-produced-written by Gregg Helvey (Overexposed), has been nominated in “Short Film” (Live Action) category of 82nd Academy Awards. It will compete with “The Door” (Juanita Wilson, James Flynn), “Instead of Abracadabra” (Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjellstrom), “Miracle Fish” (Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey), and “The New Tenants” (Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson).

Film revolves around Kavi, a boy in India, who wants to go to school and play cricket but is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. This 19-minute fictional film is Helvey’s University of Southern California thesis project. A feature length theatrical version is being planned. The movie website claims that about 27 million people are enslaved in the world today.

Filmed entirely on location in India, it was shot in eight days at Wai, near Mumbai. “Does slavery still exist?” is the tagline of this award winning film, whose other crew includes John Harrison (cinematographer), Chris Witt (editor), and Patrick Kirst (music).
Sagar Salunke played as Kavi.

The 82nd Academy Awards presentation will take place on March seven in Hollywood (California, USA). Launched in 1927 and located in Beverly Hills (California), American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which gives Oscars is dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. It has over 6,000 artists and professionals as honorary members and Tom Sherak (Rent) is its president, while Bruce Davis is the executive director.

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