London´s Asian Film Festivel To Open With Onir´s ´I Am´

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The film was bestowed the David Flint Honorary Award For Promoting Human Rights, Awarded the Best in Asian Cinema (NETPAC) at the International Film Festival of Kerala '2010.Furthur, it went on to win the Audience Choice Award, Best Film, River To River Film Festival, Florence ‘2010 and was the opening film at the IVIEW Engendered Film Festival in New York Sept 2010.

If that wasn’t all 'I Am' is now traveling the world over before its release. After New York, Vancouver, Berlin, Florence, Hamburg, Sanjay Suri and Onir's 'I Am' is traveling as the opening film to the London Asian Film festival.

If all go as planned Sanjay Suri and Manisha Koirala will be opening the film festival on the 18th of March in London.

Touching on subjects like sperm donation, child sexual abuse and homosexuality the film starring Nandita Das, Purab Kohli , Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala , Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, and Arjun Mathur also marks the full-fledged debut of directors Anurag Kashyap and Anurag Basu.

Sanjay Suri and Onir’s 'I Am', the first crowd sourced mainstream Hindi film is co produced by over 400 people from 35 cities across the world and comes to a theatre near you April 22nd 2011.

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