Director Amit Ashraf’s comedy Kathal (The Nice Jackfruit Heist) premiered on World Youngsters’s Day November twentieth, 2022 on Bioscope. The movie, which caters to each kids and adults, is out there to stream totally free.
The 45 minute brief movie was screened on the tenth Dhaka Lit Fest on the second day at 11:15am.
The session was moderated by Shams Jaber, founding father of The Tech Academy.
The quirky journey comedy is about two children from the slum who sneak into a complicated gated neighborhood to steal an enormous jackfruit (the world’s largest fruit). However once they go to sneak again out the opening, the jackfruit is just too massive. Their solely hope is to promote the fruit to the eccentric residents whereas avoiding the bumbling guards. Their journey assessments their friendship and their beliefs as they study significant classes from every encounter. A enjoyable journey for youths and adults, harking back to Little Prince meets Little Rascals.
Written and directed by Amit Ashraf, the movie stars Ishrak Turzo, Poushal Chowdhury, Somadrita Prohar, Nawaf Naser, Ashraful, Ashish, Lara Lotus, Sharmili Ahmed, Deepwanita Martin, Kaarina Kaiser, Aynun Putul, Tersa Chaity, and Khalilur Kadery.
Amit is a graduate of NYU’s movie college with a deal with directing, screenwriting and animation. His first function movie Udhao gained 7 worldwide awards.
“I grew up within the US watching many fantastic kids’s films and reveals that formed my views and morals,” the director stated. “I study to share, inform the reality and be pal from a few of the after-school reveals. However there’s virtually ZERO content material in Bangla for youths. Youngsters must often watch Hindi cartoons or some dubbed content material. They’re our future, but we make no tales for them. I needed to vary that with the journey comedy movie Kathal. Impressed by story codecs from Pixar films, I made Kathal to entertain not simply children however the entire household. I hope this may encourage makers and streamers to supply extra kids’s content material.”
Kathal gained Finest Story on the Ahmedabad Worldwide Youngsters Movie Pageant in December. Different notable credit within the movie embody:
Producer: Himel Tariq
Cinematographer: Barkhat Hussain Polash
Music Composer: Jacob Yoffee
Artwork Director: Samurai Maruf
Music Composer: Jacob Yoffee
Costume Designer: Eimon Kandakar
Manufacturing Home: Kazi Home Productions
Bangla Surf Ladies wows DLF audiences
Following its lengthy competition run in Europe and North America, Bangla Surf Ladies made an enormous splash at Dhaka Lit Fest on day 3.
Very similar to the protagonists within the documentary, Bangla Surf Ladies has defied and overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic. This little indie doc has traveled to over 37 worldwide movie festivals from Vancouver to Germany, from Paris to Guangzhou garnering awards and prizes alongside the best way. It continues to be common at Ocean themed festivals profitable awards in Coronado, California, Ubatuba, Brazil, and Kiel Germany. Bangla Surf Ladies has been proven at Youngsters’s Movie competition, Paris, ZLIN Youngsters’s movie competition in Czech Republic, Cinema in Sneakers, Poland and at Scorching Docs for Faculties, shifting younger audiences who’ve engaged in Q and A periods curious and engaged by the willpower of the Bangla Surf Ladies.
The success of Bangla Surf Ladies can be the success of Bangladeshi Director, Elizabeth D Costa whose proficient camerawork and talent to attach with the themes have been acknowledged by audiences around the globe. Critics are impressed with Elizabeth’s model and delicate therapy of her topics. There isn’t a doubt that she solid a deep relationship with the women which is how she managed to get such candid conversations.
In fact, that results in the query: what’s occurring to the women? Are they nonetheless browsing?
The recognition of the movie was leveraged by the Producers to create a crowd funding initiative in partnership with The Worldwide Ocean Movie Tour and with Bangladeshi NGO Jaago Basis. Three of the women from the unique Surf Membership proceed to show and to surf and are function fashions for the subsequent era of ladies.
Director Elizabeth D Costa stated: “Large due to our audiences. And it is an excellent feeling. We simply need the most effective for the women and that was the target once I first began filming. So, this response is absolutely nice.”
Bangla Surf Ladies has additionally been screened extensively on TV networks in Sweden, Higher China, Germany, France, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Estonia, STEPS Africa. It’s obtainable on Google Play, Amazon and Itunes.
This text was initially revealed in Showtime on August 23, 2022. It’s being reproduced right here on the event of Dhaka Lit Fest 2023
