May 10, 2008

SUBIRA - KENYAN FILM AT CANNES

The multi award wining short film Subira has been chosen to screen at the prestigious Cannes film festival, France which starts on 14th – 24th May this year.

Subira has won the Best short film in Kenya International Festivals and the Golden Impala award for the Best East African film in the just concluded Amakula Festival in Uganda. It is to show the prestigious French festival, Cannes next week and later this year in the Public Broadcasting System TV in the USA.

According to the film’s director, Ravneet “Sippy” Chadha, “The audience response to the film has overwhelmed me. This was a small project for me to learn the craft. I feel when an idea’s time has come to be expressed, it is unstoppable. We now look forward to making this into a feature film.”

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