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All you need is someone to take a punt on you, muses Tom Cullen.And that is precisely what happened to the Welsh actor when he auditioned for a part in an independent two-hander called Weekend for director and former Star of Tomorrow Andrew Haigh. Playing the part of Russell, a gay
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From tales of lesbian romance, errant villagers and unwanted pregnancy to a road movie and dreams of escape, Screen profiles the five South Asian films submitted to the Oscars foreign-language film category.The Good RoadGyan Correa talks to Liz Shackleton about working with non-professional actors on his debut feature.Filmed on location in the Indian state of Gu
stanley cup jarat, Gyan Correas The Good Road touches on several social problems - a divided society, child prostitution and the harsh life of Indias truck drivers - but it is a character-driven rather than issue-based film. My film is about small people, Correa says. The idea was to give a voice to people who are normally never heard. The story follows three groups travelling on a highway that borders the Great Rann of Kutch salt marsh in Gujarat: a middle-class couple and their son, a small girl on the run, and a weary truck driver and his assistant. When the couple lose their child, the characters collide in ways that transform them.Correa wanted the story to be rooted in a particular region of India, which led to the casting of real-life truck driver Shamji Dhana Kerasia. We look
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