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Article: CULTURE: Moving independent pictures; Roger Shannon reports from the Edinburgh Film Festival where he finds independent productions in rude health.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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Byline: Roger Shannon
Before going up to Edinburgh for the 62nd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 18-29) I checked with film director Yugesh Walia when his first film Mirror, Mirror had screened at the festival. That had been my first visit to this long running and most prestigious of film festivals, as well as my first experience of film production.
Although having just returned from Los Angeles, where he, and brother Sunandan, had met the film studio heads and the Hollywood talent agencies, his memory was refreshingly non ...