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- Run time: 83 minutes
- Country of origin: India
Genre:
Documentary
Synopsis:
A fresh new blend of observational documentary and tropical science-fiction, JOHN & JANE follows the stories of six call agents that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center.
After a heady mix of American "culture training" and 14 hour night shifts, the job soon starts to take its toll. Counter pointing the fluorescent interiors of late night offices and hyper-malls with the uneasy currents swirling around the characters, JOHN & JANE discovers a young generation of urban Indians that are beginning to live between the real and the virtual.(more)
Director:
Ashim Ahluwalia
Executive Producer(s):
Anand Tharaney
Producer(s):
Shumona Goel, Ashim Ahluwalia
Cast and Credits:
Cast:
Glen: Glen Castinho, Sydney: Sydney Fernandes, Osmond: Oaref Irani, Nikki: Vandana Malwe, Nicholas: Nikesh Soares,Naomi: Namrata Pravin Parekh
Crew:
Camera: Mohanan, Mukul Kishore
Location Sound: Mohandas, Editor: Ashim Ahluwalia, Associate Editors: Shai Heredia, Meghana Manchanda, Music: Justy, Metamatics, Thomas Brinkmann, Minamo, Signal Drift, Sound Design: Ashim Ahluwalia, Sound Engineering: Tarun Bhandari(more)
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Prior Festival Screenings:
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Berlin International Film Festival
- Real Life on Film
- Cinema du Reel
- African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival
- New Directors/New, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2006, Films
- Sonoma Valley Film Festival
- Full Frame Festival
- Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
- Minneapolis - St. Paul International Film Festival
- Washington DC International Film Festival
- Jeonju International Film Festival
- Barcelona Asian Film Festival
- Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival MÃπnchen
- VC FilmFest/ Special Jury Award
- Atlanta's Film Festival of India
- Durban International Film Festival
- Flaherty Seminar
- Jerusalem International Film Festival
- Pacific Film Archive
- Britdoc
- Telecom 38th Auckland Film Festival
- Telecom 35th Wellington Film Festival
- Telecom 30th International Film Festival, Dunedin
- Telecom 30th International Film Festival, Christchurch
- Traverse City Film Festival
- 7th Annual FILMI South Asian Film Festival
- Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Esquilino Affair – Cinema Del Mondo
- Vancouver International Film Festival
- Warsaw International Film Festival
- Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, 2006
- Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
- CPH: DOX
- Lille Film Festival
- Jakarta International Film Festival
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Awards:
- The dialogue prize of the Foreign Office- European Media Art Festival (EMAF), 2006
- Jury Award, Director's Guild of America: VC Filmfest, 2006