‘Aaba’ selected for Berlin Film Festival

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Itagar, Jan 17: ‘Aaba’–a short film by Bollywood director Amar Kaushik and co-produced by Alison Welly under Space Miracle Studios Itagar, has been selected for 67th Berlin Intertiol Film Festival in ‘Generation Competition Category’. The film is in Apatani language and the entire team of cast was from Ziro with Dani Randa as Aaba, Dani Chunya, Dani Suku, Hage Yami and Dr Joram Khopey. The film has been written and directed by Amar Kaushik, a long term associate of the tiol award winning Director Onir. He was also the assistant director of the blockbuster film ‘No One Killed Jessica’ starring Rani Mukherjee. Alison Welly, an emerging producer is here again with her unique film ideas, after one of the most popular feature film of the state, ‘Itagar 0 KM’ under Space Miracle Studios. Raj Kumar Gupta and Onir, two ace film makers known for content-driven cinema, along with film enthusiast Mitul Dikshit also decided to produce this masterpiece. Hali Welly, another film enthusiast and a known photographer from the state is the line producer of this short film. It is worth mentioning here that ‘AABA’ is the only official selection from India at the 67th Berlin Intertiol Film Festival. The film will be premiered in the Generation Kplus competition on February 11, 2017. Founded in 1951, the Berlin Intertiol Film Festival, also called Bernile, is one of the world’s leading film festivals and most reputable media event. It is held annually in Berlin, Germany.