India’s Gitanjali Rao to be Honored With Locarno Kids Award

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Naman Ramachandran Indian filmmaker Gitanjali Rao will be the recipient of the Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare, the Locarno Film Festival award dedicated to personalities capable of conveying the love of cinema to younger viewers.The ceremony on Aug.

8 at Locarno’s Piazza Grande, will be accompanied by a screening of Rao’s short film “Printed Rainbow,” which won three awards at Cannes in 2006.

Rao’s feature debut “Bombay Rose” played at Venice in 2019, and her short “Tomorrow My Love” (2021) was at Locarno.Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, said: “Gitanjali Rao is undoubtedly one of the most unique and original voices from the Indian continent in recent years.

To honor her with the Locarno Kids Awards la Mobiliare means rewarding the talent of an innovative and original artist whose work has come to the attention of audiences worldwide in just a few years, while celebrating the best in contemporary creativity.” The festival’s engagement with young audiences will begin with a pre-festival evening for families on Aug.