Exclusive: Anand Ramayya’s Karma Film is set to produce Maya Bastian’s The Devil’s Tears alongside Canada’s Blackout Media, while Shant Joshi’s Fae Pictures has also come on board to executive produce.
Karma Film and Fae Pictures are both South Asian-Canadian owned production outfits, with recent feature film credits including Donkeyhead and Cannes Directors Fortnight title In Flames, respectively.
Written and to be directed by Bastian as her debut feature, The Devil’s Tears is an ensemble horror film set in a remote Sri Lankan jungle village that has been ravaged by war. A red rain begins to fall in the village at night, leading to a dismantling of the villagers’ societal order.
The project is currently in development with financing expected to begin late 2024 and production to take place in 2025-2026 in India. Development is financed by Creative Saskatchewan, and the project has been selected...
Karma Film and Fae Pictures are both South Asian-Canadian owned production outfits, with recent feature film credits including Donkeyhead and Cannes Directors Fortnight title In Flames, respectively.
Written and to be directed by Bastian as her debut feature, The Devil’s Tears is an ensemble horror film set in a remote Sri Lankan jungle village that has been ravaged by war. A red rain begins to fall in the village at night, leading to a dismantling of the villagers’ societal order.
The project is currently in development with financing expected to begin late 2024 and production to take place in 2025-2026 in India. Development is financed by Creative Saskatchewan, and the project has been selected...
- 10/10/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Dreaming Whilst Black brought a new, diverse audience to the BBC in droves, according to the buzzy comedy’s EP Dhanny Joshi, who was speaking on a panel of diverse creatives at Mia Market.
According to Big Deal Films co-founder Joshi, the A24-distributed comedy has now notched up one of the highest shares of Black viewers for a BBC comedy of all time, around one quarter.
Joshi in part put this down to “creative choices” made throughout the making of the series, which took more than five years to get from web series to screen.
“We were offered deficit financing from huge distributors [early on] but said ‘Let’s not do that,” he told a panel in Rome. “Our overdraft facility may have been just £3,000 but we didn’t want to be tied to a distributor who may view creative choices as risky. So we were protecting ourselves and went on...
According to Big Deal Films co-founder Joshi, the A24-distributed comedy has now notched up one of the highest shares of Black viewers for a BBC comedy of all time, around one quarter.
Joshi in part put this down to “creative choices” made throughout the making of the series, which took more than five years to get from web series to screen.
“We were offered deficit financing from huge distributors [early on] but said ‘Let’s not do that,” he told a panel in Rome. “Our overdraft facility may have been just £3,000 but we didn’t want to be tied to a distributor who may view creative choices as risky. So we were protecting ourselves and went on...
- 10/10/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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