Black Sand a documentary film directed by Sohan Roy and made by Abhini Sohan Roy below the banner of Aries Telecasting Pvt Ltd has certified for 2021 Oscar awards below the section for Documentary Short Catagory. In a statement issued by the enterprise, it stated, ‘Black Sand is one of the 114 films that got chosen into this category.
The documentary showcases the horror brought on by the irrevocable harm brought on by sand mining at Alappad in Kollam district which has engulfed half of the residents’ land and houses. Sohan Roy is a marine experienced by profession and based in UAE, his directorial Hollywood film DAM 999 was also contended for the 2011 Oscars and received 5 selections in 3 categories.
Black Sand has also got official choice at the Rajasthan International Film Festival 2021 scheduled for March 20-24 at Jaipur. Earlier Jallikattu, India’s official entry in the Best International Feature category at the 93rd Academy Awards, is out of the Oscars race but the brief film Bittu entered in the next round in the Best Live Action Short Film segment. Bittu is directed by Karishma Dev Dube, based on a correct story, the film is a brief film about a close friendship amongst two girls, eclipsed by an accident at their college.
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Bittu is presented by Indian Women Rising (IWR), a cinema collective that was not too long ago formed by filmmakers Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, and Ruchika Kapoor. The final nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced on March 15. The final Indian film that created it to the final 5 in the Best International Feature category was Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan in 2001. In 2019, Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, was India’s entry to the Oscars. In the previous, Mehboob Khan’s Mother India and Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay (1989) are the other two Indian films to have created it to the prime 5.
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The 93rd prestigious Academy Awards, which had been postponed from their usual February date due to the coronavirus pandemic, will be held on April 25 in USA.