Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood: The New Independent Cinema Revolution

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Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram is Lecturer in World Cinema at Queen Mary University of London and author of Indias New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid (Routledge 2016). Ashvin was on the advisory panel for BFI India on Film part of the UK-India Year of Culture 2017. He is Programming Adviser and Associate Director of the UK Asian Film Festival London (UKAFF) former Creative Director and founder of the Edinburgh Asian Film Festival (EAFF) and a BBC Academy Expert Voice in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts. Apart from several publications including the co-edited anthology South Asian Diasporic Cinema and Theatre: Re-visiting Screen and Stage in the New Millennium (Rawat Publications 2017) Ashvin has delivered an array of international presentations and lectures. These include keynote speeches at the Cinema For All (British Federation of Film Societies) Community Cinema Conference 2017 and the Annual Dadasaheb Phalke Memorial Lecture 2015 in London. Ashvin directed the documentary film Movies Memories Magic (2018) charting the London-based South Asian diasporas memories of cinema.