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The Long Arc: Culture, Craft and Creative Power in Indian Australian Stories
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Sat 25 Oct 6:00 PM
Level 4 | National Library of Australia
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
What fuels the creative power behind stories that challenge, move and engage us on screen? How do Indian Australian creatives navigate the tensions between cultural heritage and mainstream storytelling, creating narratives that resonate both within their communities and beyond?
Award-winning filmmaker and film entrepreneur Anupam Sharma (UnIndian), creator, writer and executive producer Mithila Gupta (Four Years Later, Desi Downunder), and comedian, writer and actor Urvi Majumdar (Urvi Went to an All Girls School) reflect on these questions, and the joy, discipline, and cultural power of bringing stories to the screen.
This session invites you behind the scenes, exploring the breakthroughs and long arc of past and present into the future of Australian screen culture.
Mithila Gupta is a creator, showrunner and writer who has been writing popular Aussie television for over a decade. Her romance series Four Years Later, shot between India and Australia, was produced with Easy Tiger and SBS. It has since been acquired by CBC, Lionsgate India, nominated for Best Mini Series at the AACTA and SPA awards, and won Bronze in the Drama category at the New York Film and Television awards. Her audio series Desi Down Under was released by Audible India globally in 2022. Mithila has also written on Bump, Five Bedrooms, Doctor Doctor, The Heights, Winners and Losers and The Unlisted, which won the Prix Jeunesse International Youth Jury Prize in 2020. She also worked on sci-fi Cleverman and started her career on iconic Neighbours where she introduced an Indian family to the previously all white cast.
Urvi Majumdar is an AWGIE and AACTA nominated writer and comedian based in Naarm. Urvi was recently successful in receiving ABC X Screen Australia’s highly competitive Freshblood, funding through which she adapted her much loved debut solo comedy show Urvi Went to an All Girls School, into a hit web-series and then a 30-minute pilot, which aired on ABC and ABCiview in April. Previously Urvi has written regularly for Channel Ten’s The Project and ABC’s The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and House of Games. You can see Urvi in the ABC’s critically acclaimed series Fisk, and Guy Montgomery’s Spelling Bee, Channel Ten’s Cheap Seats, SBS’s Celebrity Letters & Numbers and The Cook Up with Adam Liaw and both seasons of Channel 9’s Metrosexual.
Anupam Sharma is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and film entrepreneur. With a postgraduate thesis on Indian cinema and over 430 screen projects to his credit, he has been widely credited for pioneering modern ties between the Australian and Indian film industries, taking him to one of the top fifty most powerful and influential Australian film professionals list by Encore. His work includes the feature film unINDIAN, Brand Bollywood Downunder, and writing/directing a number of high-profile ad campaigns. Anupam also launched the Australian Film Initiative, promoting Australian films in India, with supporters including Hugh Jackman and Baz Luhrmann, among others. He has been appointed an Australia Day Ambassador for his diverse initiatives, which include the first and only National Indian Film Festival of Australia, the Australia India Film Council, and the Australia India Film Fund. He continues to advise major screen bodies, speaking on diversity, while developing a diverse slate of international projects with development investment from Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Screen Queensland, and others.
Event supported by the High Commission of India in Australia and Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.
Award-winning filmmaker and film entrepreneur Anupam Sharma (UnIndian), creator, writer and executive producer Mithila Gupta (Four Years Later, Desi Downunder), and comedian, writer and actor Urvi Majumdar (Urvi Went to an All Girls School) reflect on these questions, and the joy, discipline, and cultural power of bringing stories to the screen.
This session invites you behind the scenes, exploring the breakthroughs and long arc of past and present into the future of Australian screen culture.
Mithila Gupta is a creator, showrunner and writer who has been writing popular Aussie television for over a decade. Her romance series Four Years Later, shot between India and Australia, was produced with Easy Tiger and SBS. It has since been acquired by CBC, Lionsgate India, nominated for Best Mini Series at the AACTA and SPA awards, and won Bronze in the Drama category at the New York Film and Television awards. Her audio series Desi Down Under was released by Audible India globally in 2022. Mithila has also written on Bump, Five Bedrooms, Doctor Doctor, The Heights, Winners and Losers and The Unlisted, which won the Prix Jeunesse International Youth Jury Prize in 2020. She also worked on sci-fi Cleverman and started her career on iconic Neighbours where she introduced an Indian family to the previously all white cast.
Urvi Majumdar is an AWGIE and AACTA nominated writer and comedian based in Naarm. Urvi was recently successful in receiving ABC X Screen Australia’s highly competitive Freshblood, funding through which she adapted her much loved debut solo comedy show Urvi Went to an All Girls School, into a hit web-series and then a 30-minute pilot, which aired on ABC and ABCiview in April. Previously Urvi has written regularly for Channel Ten’s The Project and ABC’s The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and House of Games. You can see Urvi in the ABC’s critically acclaimed series Fisk, and Guy Montgomery’s Spelling Bee, Channel Ten’s Cheap Seats, SBS’s Celebrity Letters & Numbers and The Cook Up with Adam Liaw and both seasons of Channel 9’s Metrosexual.
Anupam Sharma is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and film entrepreneur. With a postgraduate thesis on Indian cinema and over 430 screen projects to his credit, he has been widely credited for pioneering modern ties between the Australian and Indian film industries, taking him to one of the top fifty most powerful and influential Australian film professionals list by Encore. His work includes the feature film unINDIAN, Brand Bollywood Downunder, and writing/directing a number of high-profile ad campaigns. Anupam also launched the Australian Film Initiative, promoting Australian films in India, with supporters including Hugh Jackman and Baz Luhrmann, among others. He has been appointed an Australia Day Ambassador for his diverse initiatives, which include the first and only National Indian Film Festival of Australia, the Australia India Film Council, and the Australia India Film Fund. He continues to advise major screen bodies, speaking on diversity, while developing a diverse slate of international projects with development investment from Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Screen Queensland, and others.
Event supported by the High Commission of India in Australia and Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.
