Birdsong
Documentary
Hmong, English
mins
18
Virtual
2022
Laos
Drama
Directors
Sparsh Ahuja & Omi Gupta
Omi Gupta and Sparsh Ahuja are filmmakers based between London, Melbourne and New Delhi.
Their first collaboration, 'Child of Empire', a VR experience of the 1947 Partition of British India, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The film opened to glowing reviews in The Economist, and was also the front page article of The Hindu weekend following Sundance.
Sparsh is lead producer on 'Lost Migrations', a series of three animated shorts on postcolonial South Asia. Omi has written one episode in this series, called ‘Seabirds’, which follows the story of the Tamil exodus from Burma following the Japanese occupation in the Second World War. Their work has exhibited at the BFI and V&A, London.
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Sparsh Ahuja & Omi Gupta
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Sparsh Ahuja & Omi Gupta
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Cast:
Neng Chue Vang, Neng Chi Lee, Chia Por Lee
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