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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: Legendary ‘Sholay’ director Ramesh Sippy says next challenge is webseries, curtain comes down – London, Radhika Apte on power, Shabana Azmi on women taking helm and awards…

🎥 Legendary ‘Sholay’ film director Ramesh Sippy to create webseries 🎥 Talks to acv about ‘Sholay’ (1975), its casting and…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Evening Shadows’ (review) – Parents take centre stage in coming out drama…

Confronting prejudice in conservative environments… LOVE is such a precious gift that we should never lose it lightly – whether…

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‘Raghu Rai – An unframed portrait’: Master and daughter snap about the art of taking pictures…

Iconic photographer has lens turned on him in revealing portrait… RAGHU RAI is one of the world’s best known-photographers –…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: Struggle not submission – Southall Black Sisters 40 years and drawing the dots between then and now…

🎥 Founder of Southall Black Sisters (SBS) said she is more scared now than during the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Ek Aasha’ – acv reception – #LGBT rights, equality and change through film… (video)

We hosted a reception for this film and here’s why…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Ek Asha’ (review) – transgender as it is…

Film challenges conventions on both sides… IT IS NOT very often we get to see or hear from people mostly…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Ek Aasha’ director Mayur Katariya talks about his transgender film prior to screening…(FB video – click)

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: Bollywood icon Zeenat Aman – “no age appropriate roles” and gala opening film ‘Hamid’ review…

It was a double header last night as the UK Asian Film Festival got under way… By Sailesh Ram SHE…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Ek Aasha’ – director of transgender film, Mayur Katariya, says film is clarion call for change…

ACV hosting special pre-screening reception for film championing equality… By Sailesh Ram IT WILL BE A WORLD Premiere for the…

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BFI Flare 2019: ‘Vision Portraits’ – lack of sight no impediment to visual creativity… and ‘Home Girl’

Rodney Evan’s tender documentary on how sight loss doesn’t stop you being a creative – and also news of ‘Home…

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