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Spinning
the Sikh Story on Screen
 CALIFORNIA:
The clock is
ticking fast and the Sikh community is particularly waiting with
excitement for the star-studded extravaganza when the Spinning Wheel
Film Festival opens on November 16 & 17 at Beverly Hills in Southern
California. The
efforts at showcasing the best of the Sikh community, its
aspirations and achievements, concerns and focus areas through the
medium of film which is not just a corporatised version a la
Hollywood but rather a sort of people’s movement, has been highly
appreciated all over the globe.
This will be the fifth time the Wheel will be Spinning again,
bringing to the community as well as the wider audience the
documentaries and independent films to foreign and narrative films.
Both Sikh and non-Sikh movie buffs will mingle to see how the camera
pans the community’s worldview. The festival is a screen celebration
of the Sikh story, the tapestry that the community weaves in the
world through its culture, identity and history. The Sikh Center of
Orange County is backing the film fest which will have as its key
areas the issues of human rights, global peace, religious freedom
and tolerance. The producers and directors will also be taking
Questions from the participants in special sessions. Renowned
UK-based story teller Roop Singh of ‘My Yorkshire’ fame, India-born
British actorwriter- director-producer Kavi Raz, and actor Namrata
Gujral will add to the star power at the fest, and lending it more
glamour will be the 13-year-old Atlanta film maker Angad Singh
Bhatia, famous painting twins Amrit and Rabindra Singh, Reema Anand
(often featured on these pages in the WSN), Valarie Kaur, Waris
Ahluwalia, and others.
The
India Post wrote on its website: “This ideal congregation of
filmmakers, film students, filmgoers and critics is bound to create
an overall positive feeling towards Sikh films and encourage artists
to create works that imbibe the Sikh values. It will also inspire
the new generation of Sikhs to pursue careers in the arts. Overall,
the festival is sure to be an endless ride of creative emancipation
as masterpieces in Sikh cinema are screened one after the other.”
The Spinning Wheel has been steadily growing more and more in size
and reputation.
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October, 2007
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