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Picture Tree International has acquired the global sales rights to Prithvi Konanur’s social thriller “Where’s Pinki?” The film has its world premiere next month at the Busan International Film Festival, in its World Cinema section.
Written and directed by Prithvi Konanur, “Pinki?” (aka “Pinki Elli?”) is a forceful social commentary on contemporary Indian society and female identity. Her story centers on the frantic search of a middle-class divorced woman in the poorest areas of Bangalore in search of her eight-month-old baby.
Picture Tree has started the film’s sales campaign through an agreement with Channel 4 Television in the UK. It can be given a theatrical presentation before an open screening in the first half of 2021.
The director, Konanur is a former software engineer who branched out into screenwriting with an English script “The Abiding”, which was chosen by an American producer and directed by horror specialist Rob Schmidt. He made his own directorial debut in 2012 with “Waves,” produced by the Children’s Film Society of India under the Indian federal government, which debuted at the Toronto festival. The second feature film, “Railway Children” premiered at the Mumbai Film Festival in 2016, while “Pinki?” was featured last year as a work in progress at the 2019 Film Bazaar in Goa.
The film was shot with a single handheld camera for a gritty and realistic look and uses a largely unprofessional cast drawn from the slums of Bangalore. The lead actors, Akshatha Pandavapura and Deepak Subramanya, lead the handful of on-screen professionals.
“Pinki?” It was produced by Krishnegowda for Sapthagiri Creations and is the company’s first internationally oriented production.
The Busan festival announced its full lineup on Monday, but said that most of this year’s event would change online due to current coronavirus conditions in South Korea. Each of the selected films will be screened only once, in rooms limited by social distancing rules to no more than 50 spectators.
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