The Indian Visions film festival in Washington, DC, from November 13 through November 16, will open with director Abhishek Kapoor's recent box office success 'Rock On' starring Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal and Prachi Desai. Photo Credit: Dale Bhagwagar Media GroupNovember 11, 2008, (Sawf News) - The Indian Visions film festival in Washington, DC, from November 13 through November 16, will open with director Abhishek Kapoor's recent box office success Rock On starring Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal and Prachi Desai.
Kapoor will be attending the opening night to present his film and to interact with the DC audiences.
Other feature films being showcased at the festival are - Welcome to Sajjanpur (Shyam Benegal), Naalu Pennungal/Four Women (Adoor Gopalakrishnan), Prapancha Pash/A Throw of Dice (Franz Osten), A Wednesday (Neeraj Pandey), Valu: The Wild Bull (Umesh Kulkarni), Mumbai Meri Jaan (Nishikant Kamat) and Nirakar Chhaya/Shadows Formless (Ashish Avikunthak).
Documentary films Pancham Unmixed (Brahmanand Singh) and Shot in Bombay (Liz Mermin) are also being screened.
Short films which will be screened at the film festival include:
The Fiction (Spandan Banerjee)
AIDS JaaGo (Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Farhan Akhtar and Santosh Sivan)
Midnight Lost and Found (Atul Sabharwal),Rewind (Atul Taishete)
Haravele Indradhanush/The Lost Rainbow (Dhiraj Meshram)
Antaral/End Note (Ashish Avikunthak)
Beware Dogs (Spandan Banerjee)
The Private Life of Albert Pinto (Sidharth Singh)
Between Two Worlds (Mona Kumar)
Crossing Lines (Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani)
Milind Soman Made Me Gay (Harjant Gill)
Quamar/Working to Live (Preeya Nair)
Super 30 (Christopher Mitchell)
Wings of Evolution (Ramesh Mourthy and Raghu Jeganathan)
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