IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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FILM COMPETITION INDIA WORLDWIDE<br />
WORLD PREMIERE<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
USA<br />
Death Without Consent<br />
<strong>2008</strong>, 35 mm, Colour, 109 mins, English<br />
Director<br />
Vera Chawla<br />
Screenplay<br />
Vera Chawla<br />
Cinematography<br />
William Nusbaum<br />
Editor<br />
Kris Cole<br />
Music<br />
Harry Manfredini<br />
Cast<br />
Chad Doreck, Nina Merchant, Sonya Vaswani and Pawel<br />
Szajda.<br />
Sound<br />
Sound One<br />
Production<br />
Robyn Bennett & Jon Blumberg<br />
World Sales<br />
Scene It Entertainment, LLC, PO Box 59236, Potomac<br />
Maryland 20859, USA<br />
Email: info@SceneItEntertainment.com<br />
www.SceneItEntertainment.com<br />
Chawla demonstrates the fast emerging trend, with Manoj Night Shyamalan in the lead,<br />
<strong>of</strong> film pr<strong>of</strong>essionals <strong>of</strong> <strong>India</strong>n origin living in the US who are directing films that<br />
concern not their homeland but mainstream American life. Her debut feature is based on<br />
bio-terrorism, now beginning to affect people globally. It is based on her original<br />
screenplay which comes from her inside knowledge <strong>of</strong> government-sponsored<br />
biological tests on humans to assess viral mutations in germs for biological warfare. The<br />
film is about brilliant senior collegiate Chris Carrington, who lost his father and brother<br />
to a hereditary kidney disease, knowing that he will die from it also. Having lost faith in<br />
God and his desire to live, Chris is unexpectedly contacted by a retired KGB <strong>of</strong>ficer, who<br />
tells him that his family's disease was not hereditary, nor ordinary. He was a victim <strong>of</strong> a<br />
human experiment. Reluctantly, Chris begins an investigation into the tangled political<br />
web <strong>of</strong> corruption, bio-terrorism and weapons <strong>of</strong> mass destruction. His one source to get<br />
close to Dr Gurevich, the scientist who created these viruses, is through Gurevich's only<br />
child, Anna. However, Anna's innocence, beauty and intelligence become his greatest<br />
obstacle. Chris encounters roadblocks from vested political interests. The film addresses<br />
the potential impact <strong>of</strong> current terrorist threats.<br />
US-based Vera Chawla was born in Mumbai and educated in Roorkee, Mussoorie and<br />
Dehradun. In 1964 she was admitted at age 14 to the University <strong>of</strong> Virginia, where she<br />
performed regularly in college plays. By age 19 she had completed her MS in Computer<br />
Science and Electrical Engineering. For the next 20 years she was employed by NASA,<br />
Boeing, General Electric and ISN, working mostly on classified defence contracts inside<br />
the Pentagon. As an executive in the high-tech world <strong>of</strong> telecommunications, Chawla<br />
maintained her passion for the performing arts. She started studying film in the late<br />
1990s getting involved in TV serials and shorts for the foreign markets as a director and<br />
producer. This is Chawla's first independent feature film.<br />
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