SIKKIM OBSERVER    Saturday Dec 13-19, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT

Sudhanshu Saria’s His New Hands gets Remi Gold award

Siliguri, Dec 12: Budding filmmaker Sudhanshu Saria’s His New Hands was recently awarded the prestigious Remi Gold prize for Best Dramatic Short at the 47th WorldFest-Houston festival.

The film had its World Premiere in Competition at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2014 recently.

Siliguri’s Sudhanshu Saria, or Suds,  has worked as an entertainment executive in Los Angeles for the past seven years. In his various positions handling acquisitions – development  and distribution – he has helped bring various film and television projects such as  The Tudors

(Showtime/BBC), Fragments (Kate Beckinsale, Forest Whitaker), The Ideal (William H Macy, Meg Ryan) to fruition.

Suds received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Photography from Ithaca College, New York, USA. His previous work, premiered at film festivals like Hollyshorts and the Oscar qualifying Rio De Janeiro International, has taken him to the Berlinale Talent Campus and gotten him featured on shows on NPR and Good Morning America.

Sudhanshu Saria

His New Hands, his most recent short, had its World Premiere in Competition at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2014 and most recently was awarded the prestigious Remi Gold prize for Best Dramatic Short at the 47th WorldFest-Houston festival.

 It was screened at Sarasota, Omaha, Chennai and Johns Hopkins Film Festivals, was selected by the makers of the Red  camera for their annual showcase of the best films shot on their camera, and was awarded the Best Cinematography prize at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai.

   His New Hands, “ featuring acclaimed actor Andre Royo ( The Wire, The Spectacular  Now),  is a Faustian tale about the price of pursuing one's dreams set in the Old South,” says Saria and adds “The film was funded via crowdfunding and our donors are from all over the world. We shot the film in Los Angeles area and post-produced it entirely in Mumbai.”

I Am Here, a feature-length screenplay he wrote, was selected for the International Finance Forum at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Love , his feature writing and directing debut, is currently in post-production. As he climbs from peak to peak, Suds will surely live up to his college, founded in 1892, motto: “Commitment to Excellence.”