Exclusive: C International Sales has picked up the project’s international rights.
C International Sales has picked up international rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Tip Top Taj Mahal, starring The Lunchbox actress Nimrat Kaur.
New Zealand producer John Barnett, whose credits include Oscar-nominated drama Whale Rider (2002), is producing the English-language project with Sally Campbell (Evil Dead). UK-based director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day) will direct.
Based on Jacob Rajan’s play Krishnan’s Dairy, the film tells the story of an Indian couple who, following an arranged marriage, emigrate to New Zealand with their young son.
Desperately missing home, the wife escapes into a fantasy world by telling her son the love story behind the building of the Taj Majal. Rajan scripted the adaptation with Justin Lewis and Kate McDermott.
“This is a universal story,” said Barnett. “The story of our characters, Gobi, Zina and Apu, is one that...
C International Sales has picked up international rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Tip Top Taj Mahal, starring The Lunchbox actress Nimrat Kaur.
New Zealand producer John Barnett, whose credits include Oscar-nominated drama Whale Rider (2002), is producing the English-language project with Sally Campbell (Evil Dead). UK-based director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day) will direct.
Based on Jacob Rajan’s play Krishnan’s Dairy, the film tells the story of an Indian couple who, following an arranged marriage, emigrate to New Zealand with their young son.
Desperately missing home, the wife escapes into a fantasy world by telling her son the love story behind the building of the Taj Majal. Rajan scripted the adaptation with Justin Lewis and Kate McDermott.
“This is a universal story,” said Barnett. “The story of our characters, Gobi, Zina and Apu, is one that...
- 2/11/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Following the success of That Sugar Film, Madman Production is co-producing Spookers, its second feature documentary which examines the characters who inhabit Australasia.s only haunted theme park. Berlin-born, New Zealand-based director Florian Habicht is shooting Spookers at the eponymous .scream park. in a converted hospital located near Karaka, a 50 minute drive from Auckland.
The attraction was created 10 years ago by a sheep farming family, which has transformed their lives and employed hundreds of aspiring horror performers.
The New Zealand Film Commission is co-funding the doc, produced by Kiwi Lani-Rain Feltham and Madman Production.s Nick Batzias and Suzanne Walker. Madman Entertainment co-founder Paul Wiegard has been to the park and marvelled at the crazy characters including zombies, clowns, a blood-curdling butcher and a guy in a baseball mask wielding a chainsaw.
"We follow the hopes, dreams and fears of key characters as they face unchartered territory," Wiegard tells If.
The attraction was created 10 years ago by a sheep farming family, which has transformed their lives and employed hundreds of aspiring horror performers.
The New Zealand Film Commission is co-funding the doc, produced by Kiwi Lani-Rain Feltham and Madman Production.s Nick Batzias and Suzanne Walker. Madman Entertainment co-founder Paul Wiegard has been to the park and marvelled at the crazy characters including zombies, clowns, a blood-curdling butcher and a guy in a baseball mask wielding a chainsaw.
"We follow the hopes, dreams and fears of key characters as they face unchartered territory," Wiegard tells If.
- 10/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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