0ne Rupee Film Diaries: Part 1: A Brief History of Dime: A Brief History of Dime

by Anamitra Roy

Overview

The 0ne Rupee Film Project is an independent and ultra-low-budget crowd-funded feature length docu-fiction out of India. The makers of the film had to go through a 474 day long fundraising campaign. They asked for a minimum contribution of one rupee from everyone they came across. Thus, 2,85,000 Indian rupees could be raised to complete the production and the initial stages of post-production. The film is titled Aashmani Jawaharat aka Diamonds in the Sky but the campaign had been so huge that it is still popularly recognized as the one rupee film. The books of this series contains stories, backgrounds and experiences the makers of the 0ne Rupee Film Project had during this extra-ordinary journey of theirs. If you are interested in what kind of reality the marginal independent filmmakers have to face or what unique face of reality they see everyday, this book will surely amuse you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781494997854
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/19/2014
Series:	0ne Rupee Film Diaries , #1
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.07(d)
Age Range:	1 - 17 Years

About the Author

Anamitra Roy is a writer-filmmaker based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has been one of the co-founders as well as the curator of Little Fish Eat Big Fish, the no-budget filmmakers' collaborative. Born in 1988, Roy started making his first independent short film in 2007 with Sriparna, his wife, soul-mate and co-activist. His only collection of Bengali poems, "Shabdoprokriyakoron", came out in 2008. Till date he has four shorts to his credit (Except the feature, Aashmani Jawaharat) as a director and more than a dozen as an editor.