Sundance 2024 | Two Indian co-productions bag awards
The Hindu
‘Girls Will Be Girls’ and documentary ‘Nocturnes’ won prizes at the US festival’s annual awards
Girls Will Be Girls, the debut production of actor-couple Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal, has won two awards at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Documentary Nocturnes, an India-US co-production, also bagged an honour at the festival's annual awards, held in Park City, Utah.
Girls Will Be Girls, directed by Shuchi Talati, took home the Audience Award for World Cinema Dramatic Competition, while its lead actor Preeti Panigrahi won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting.
Nocturnes, directed by Anirban Dutta, won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Craft.
According to the makers, Girls Will Be Girls is set in a boarding school in a small Himalayan hill town in northern India. It follows the journey of Mira, a 16-year-old girl, whose rebellious awakening is intertwined with her mother's unfulfilled coming-of-age experiences.
The film is an Indo-French co-production, a collaboration between Chadha and Fazal's joint venture Pushing Buttons Studios, and Blink Digital, Crawling Angel Films and Dolce Vita Films.
In a joint statement, Chadha and Fazal said they never expected an "overwhelming response" for their debut production at Sundance.
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