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Kapadia - filmography.
Writer / director.
ASIF KAPADIA's debut feature film entitled THE WARRIOR has received great
international acclaim. A FilmFour/The Bureau production, it was released
in the UK in 2002. The film won The Alexander Korda Award for the outstanding
British Film of the Year at the 2003 BAFTAs with Kapadia winning the Carl
Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a Director, Screenwriter or Producer
in their first feature film. The film was also nominated for the Best Film
Not in the English Language.
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WARRIOR also won the Evening Standard British Film Award for the Most Promising
Newcomer; the Sutherland Trophy for Most Original and Imaginative First
Feature at the London Film Festival; the Grand Prix at the Dinard Film Festival;
the Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Film, the Technical Achievement
Award for Cinematography at the British Independent Film Awards and the
Best Photography Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Asif's graduation film from the Royal College of Art, THE SHEEP THIEF a
23-minute drama shot in India, won the Second Prize in the Cinefoundation
section of the 1998 Cannes International Film Festival. THE SHEEP THIEF
has won numerous Awards around the world including the Grand Prix at the
European Short Film Festival in Brest; the Best Direction prize at the Poitiers
Film Festival. It has been screened at the London Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand
and New York Film Festivals. The Film has been sold for transmission around
the world, including Channel 4 in the UK.
Kapadia was commissioned to direct a short film for Channel Four/Ideal World's
Spotlights series in 1998 entitled HOT DOG.
 Asif's
first RCA film, THE WAITING ROOM won the Royal Television Society Student
Award for London. It was shortlisted for Best European Short in Brest, and
screened at the 1996 British and Munich Short Film Festivals.
In 1994, whilst specialising in screenwriting at the University of Westminster,
Asif wrote and directed INDIAN TALES, which won the Gold Plaque at the Chicago
International Film Festival. It was also screened at the New York, Toronto,
Yale and British Short Film Festivals, and was televised by British and
Canadian Television.
Asif has directed documentary films for the BBC and was a producer/director
of drama and documentaries for Carlton Television on SHIFT. He directed
over 30 films for the programme, and 5 of these were selected for the 1996
Toronto TV Festival.
The Paul Weiland Film Company for commercials represents Kapadia, he has
directed commercials for Canon, Kit Kat, Hell Lager and the Central Office
of Information [COI]. His student Commercial WILD WEST for Colgate Toothpaste,
won the 1996 Kodak Best Student Commercial Award as well as receiving a
Special Jury Prize.
Asif has completed his MA in Film and TV Direction at the Royal College
of Art in 1997; he received First Class Honours from the BA [Hons] Film,
Video & Photographic Arts Degree course at University of Westminster
in 1994.
Kapadia began working in the film industry at the age of 18 as a runner,
he went on to work on shorts, television dramas and features as a first
assistant director, sound recordist, assistant editor before going on to
study at Newport Film School in Gwent in 1992.
Tim Miller, April 3, 2003
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