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“Amar” is the acclaimed nine-minute documentary short film directed by English documentary filmmaker Andrew Hinton for Pilgrim Films, which won The Satyajit Ray Foundation 2011 Short Film Competition Award and The Best Documentary Award at The 2012 Vimeo Festival +Awards.
“Amar” is an observational documentary that follows the day of a 14 year-old Indian boy from a teeming slum in India, who is at the top of his class in school and who also fantasizes of someday becoming a professional cricketer. In addition, Amar happens to be his family’s main breadwinner, working two jobs six-and-a-half days a week. On its surface, the film is presented as a quiet celebration of the human spirit, of a boy whose tenacity and quiet resolve carry him through every day.
But on a deeper level, Amar presents the sad and haunting echoes found in earlier seminal works, such as: Alan Sillitoe’s “Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner,” Carson McCullers’ “The Ballad of the Sad Café” and Truman Capote’s “Other Voices, Other Rooms.” Beneath the film’s face of optimism lurks a deep well of solitude, a life that is always surrounded, yet always alone.
This piece includes a number of photographs, as well as the award-winning, haunting documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/amar-always-surrounded-always-alone/“Amar” is the acclaimed nine-minute documentary short film directed by... more
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