Satish Kaushik’s Dead End wins $15,000 in Seoul
Dead end also gets selected at IFP Project Forum at Independent Film Week in New York.
This
one-of-a-kind event brings the international film and media community to
New York City to advance new projects and support the future of
storytelling by nurturing the work of both emerging and established
independent artists and filmmakers. Through the Project Forum, creatives
connect with the financiers, executives, influencers and
decision-makers in film, television, new media and cross-platform
storytelling that can help them complete their latest works and connect
with audiences.This one-of-a-kind event takes place September 14-18, 2014
at Lincoln Center supporting bold new content from a wide variety of
domestic and international artists. And Dead End has found place in the
coveted few from entries coming from world over.
After
winning HAF at Hong Kong, Dead End scores in Korea. The script is
making its rounds in The Network of Asian Fantastic Film (NAFF)
countries and makes yet another mark by winning the best script at Seoul
at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifan),
Dev Benegal’s pitch for a dark comedy “Dead End” was named as the best project at the Network of Asian Fantastic Films. The Bucheon Award is worth $15,000.
Dead
End is The story of a man who is declared as dead by a shady government
department and has to take extreme measures to prove that he is alive.
The script is written by Dev Benegal and Sarat Rao and is to be produced
by Satish Kaushik Entertainment and Benegal’s August Entertainment.
Satish Kaushik will play the main lead.
Talking
about the win Satish Kaushik said,” The project has been garnering
positive response and now with two awards in its kitty and a cash prize
win we can look at kick- starting pre production. Dead end will see one
of the most successful complex cross country funding and I’m sure it
will firm up India’s position in the global cinema market. I have always
believed that cinema has no language and Dead End has proved it so. A
simple village folk from India has now known to all top notches in the
cinema circuit. Who could even imagine of such a scope? I had the rights
to the story. Dev and I developed it and I want him to direct this
project as well”.
After
the win at HAF and NAFF, the script has garnered interest from world
over. Satish Kaushik has been in talks with The Weinstein Company and
the legendary Karl Baumgartner’s partners. Enquiries has been trickling
down from countries from Germany, France, Japan, UK, South Korea,
Singapore, Taiwan and US have queued up to meet Satish and Dev to lap up
the project.
The
project is up for funding and will be developed as an international
venture. It will release world over as the story caters to international
sensibilities and a wider audience beyond India.
The NAFF project platform is a successful market to the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifan).
Now in its Eighteenth edition the festival has not only made a mark in
Korea but also on the global map. This year It hosted 27 local and Asian
projects, welcoming 259 executives to 449 formal one-on-one pitch
meetings
