About Ashvin Kumar

13th January 1973

Happy Birthday!

August 1991

One For The Road

August 1999

Krapp's Last Tape

January 2004

Little Terrorist

February 2005

Caught behind Maggie Gyllenhaal on the red carpet - Oscars 2005

Ashvin Kumar

Writer / Director / Actor / Producer

Ashvin is an Oscar nominee for Little Terrorist which was also nominated at the European Film Academy Awards, a honorable mention at BAFTA/LA and won over twenty-four top honours in over two hundred international film festivals. He is a two-time National award winner for his Kashmir series, Inshallah, football and Inshallah, Kashmir, and has also directed Road to Ladakh (Irrfan Khan), Dazed in Doon, The Forest (Jaaved Jaffery), UNHCR commissioned documentary, I Am not Here, and 4 Daughters in Kashmir.

2021

Ashvin began working as a director in theatre and founded one of the rest digital post-production studios in India in 1996. He is a voting member of the European Film Academy and TEDx speaker. He mentors aspiring film-makers, inviting them to be a part of his film-crew and enjoys sharing his passion for filmmaking.

His films, behind-the-scenes videos, synopsis are available to view on his YouTube channel :

https://www.youtube.com/user/ashvinalipur

https://twitter.com/ashvinkumar

https://www.instagram.com/ashvinkofficial/

https://www.facebook.com/ashvinkofficial/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashvin_Kumar

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1464392/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1

2020

Ashvin’s upcoming projects are “Swift Desire”, a romantic feature film and a slate of four features - a farcical-comedy, thriller, drama and coming-of-age film. He is in early development with a series set in the 1800s between India, Britain and France. He will soon be teaching film-making in a series of online film-making classes for aspiring filmmakers on YouTube in 2021.

2019

Ashvin began working as an actor & director in theatre and founded one of the first digital post-production studios in India in 1996. He is a voting member of the European Film Academy. His latest feature film, No Fathers in Kashmir was released to glowing reviews both India (2019) and the UK (2020).

2015

Life in the shadows

An article about I am not Here on the UN website

Ten years | Little Terrorist

Ten years since Little Terrorist’s Oscar nod, feels more relevant now than a decade ago. Putting it up here free join me in suspending disbelief for fifteen minutes, recall the hope and idealism that informed its creation.

I am Not Here | premiere

Ashvin Kumar presents a Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Film, I am Not Here.

Risking their lives, migrants undergo perilous journeys to distant countries for safety and opportunity — Undocumented is the story of these aspirations – both realized and broken.

See Behind the Scenes photos here

2014

Promo for new feature film ‘Noor’

The APSA grant and the Sundance Institute screenplay lab made it possible to shoot this five minute ‘mood’ promo. Watch here

Mumbai-Mantra / Sundance Institute Screenplay Lab

‘Noor’ one of eight projects selected for script development. Proud to be a Sundance Fellow. See photos.

2013

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

‘Noor’ wins the children’s film fund script development grant, for films that carry positive, life-affirming messages.

National Award

Inshallah Kashmir wins for best investigative film.

2012

INSHALLAH, KASHMIR : Feature Documentary
Silver Conch

Inshallah, football wins at the Mumbai International Film Festival.

National Award

Inshallah Football wins for best-film on social issues.

Protest

Film-makers protest to save independent cinema ahead of the national-awards ceremony. What is the point of winning a national award if we can’t show our films in this country?