'Kavi' - Film Documents Modern Day Slavery - Up for Student Academy Award Tomorrow
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Shocked by modern day slavery, young filmmaker Gregg Helvey has made a fiction short ‘Kavi’, which portrays several days in the life of a young bonded worker.
It’s the best student film I’ve seen since George Lucas’s breakout ‘THX 1138 4EB’.
Set in a brick kiln that could be anytime/anywhere, the images are corrosive, seething, painful. The cast is powerful, the roles archetypal. The photography has an oily sheen - as if the film stock itself is shamed by what it’s recording.
It’s the best student film I’ve seen since George Lucas’s breakout ‘THX 1138 4EB’.
Set in a brick kiln that could be anytime/anywhere, the images are corrosive, seething, painful. The cast is powerful, the roles archetypal. The photography has an oily sheen - as if the film stock itself is shamed by what it’s recording.
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