Arun Kumar's directorial debut feature Truck of Dreams set around a travelling rural cinema in India, has won the World Cinema Award at the Washington DC Independent Film Festival. The film's European premiere is on 3rd May 2006 at Cineworld West Quay as part of the East End Film Festival. An extended feature about the making of the film was published by Netribution  on the 4th April.

This magical blend of fiction and documentary is an Indian Cinema Paradiso about the power of film to transform lives. India’s last travelling cinema, the Truck of Dreams, makes what may be its final journey after forty years showing films throughout rural Maharashtra. Meanwhile village girl Meera, under pressure from her family to marry locally, contemplates a better life. When the travelling cinema rolls into her village, Meera is given a glimpse of another world through the glamour and excitement of the Bollywood dream. Truck of Dreams is a love letter to cinema, documenting a country in social flux and celebrating the spirit of New India.

The 3rd of May screening at the East End Film Festival will be followed by a Question & Answer session with director Arun Kumar.

Meanwhile, congratulations to Arun from all of us at Netribution on the film's Washington Independent Film Festival success and best wishes for the future of the film.

On the Road With The Truck of Dreams, the inside story of the making of the film - a story which any filmmmaker will fully appreciate - can be found here...

http://www.netribution.co.uk/2/articles/behind_the_scenes/on_the_road_with_the_truck_of_dreams.html

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Congratulations Arun
written by James macGregor, May 01, 2006

Great news about the award from Washington IFF for the truck of Dream. Tackling a first feature is a pretty tough assignment by itself, but tackling it across continents and cultures is an even taller order, without the sort of additional problems that came your way. (If readers want to know more, click the link in the news item above to read Arun's feature on the making of the Truck of Dreams - well worth it, it's a great story he has to tell.) It is a great credit to you that despite all the setbacks, you hung on in there with persistence as well as dogged determination and resisted all attempts at interference with your vision for the project. The recognition of the film as a good piece of World Cinema by the jury in Washington is a reflection of all your efforts and a clear indication that they were well worth it! Well done and hope the Truck of Dreams is met just as enthusiastically when it rumbles into the East End on Wednesday!

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Congratulations Arun
written by James macGregor, May 01, 2006

Great news about the award from Washington IFF for the truck of Dream. Tackling a first feature is a pretty tough assignment by itself, but tackling it across continents and cultures is an even taller order, without the sort of additional problems that came your way. (If readers want to know more, click the link in the news item above to read Arun's feature on the making of the Truck of Dreams - well worth it, it's a great story he has to tell.) It is a great credit to you that despite all the setbacks, you hung on in there with persistence as well as dogged determination and resisted all attempts at interference with your vision for the project. The recognition of the film as a good piece of World Cinema by the jury in Washington is a reflection of all your efforts and a clear indication that they were well worth it! Well done and hope the Truck of Dreams is met just as enthusiastically when it rumbles into the East End on Wednesday!

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