After a soaring festival run, Sayani Gupta’s Aasmani heads to 5 more film festivals in next two weeks
Here's the latest update from the Bollywood world:
Aasmani is produced by Sayani Gupta Movies, Nikkhil Advani under Sumitra Gupta Foundation for Arts, and Dia Mirza and Ananya Rane under One India Stories.
Adding to this, It just played at the International Movie Festival of South Asia (IFFSA) in Toronto. The movie was an official selection, with Sayani winning the South Asian Screen Excellence Award. This also coincided with her birthday as she attended as the Guest of Honour and her Masterclass: Becoming a Star, Remaining an Star moderated by Anup Singh Batla, director of Qissa and The Song of Scorpions with Irrfan Khan.
Meanwhile, Sayani also won the Leadership award in Eccellence in Films at iSAFF Vancouver where Aasmani won Best movie honourable mention Excellence in short Filmmaking.
Notably, It also won Best movie at Atlanta Indian Movie Festival and Best Director & Best Child star in Boston. It played at 9 festivals last month, including the DC South Asian, Kerala IDSFFK, Tokyo International Short Movie Festival, Bangalore International Short FF (Oscar-Qualifying), and Chicago South Asian Movie Festival to name a few.
As per the latest buzz, Aasmani has five more official selections lined up in the coming weeks, across the US, Canada, Ukraine and India.
In further updates, First up is the 21st Tasveer Movie Festival in Seattle, running from October 13 to 18. Tasveer is the world's only Oscar-qualifying South Asian movie festival. Aasmani also played at BISFF Bangalore which is India's only Oscar Qualifying festival. After that, the movie will screen at the 55th Molodist Kyiv International Movie Festival in Ukraine, between October 24th and November 1. Right after, the movie will also screen at the 22nd annual LA Femme International Movie Festival, taking place from October 22 to 25 in Los Angeles. After Vancouver and Toronto, Aasmani is playing at a third festival in Canada: the 30th Vancouver Asian Movie Festival (VAFF) from November 5-14th.
On top of that, Sayani returns to India for the 15th Dharamshala International Movie Festival, held from October 29 to November 1 at the Tibetan Children's Village in the Himalayan foothills.
With the movie winning at almost every festival, while Sayani herself was honoured with the iSAFF (Vancouver) Leadership in Movie Award and Screen Excellence at IFFSA, Toronto, it has been a busy year for the first-time writer/director, with more festival selections lined up till March 2027.
Source: Bollywood Hungama