Education
Bard College.
Bard College.
This was followed by his first narrative feature film Mission Lovely, premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Working outside the mainstream Bollywood film system, Ashim Ahluwalia is one of a new generation of Indian directors which prefers to eschew working with Hindi film stars. His unconventional films blur the lines between documentary and fiction.
His short films have shown at the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ashim Ahluwalia grew up in Bombay, India. He attended the city"s Cathedral and John Connon School before moving on to Bard College in upstate New York, where he graduated in filmmaking in 1995.
Ahluwalia began his film career with a series of experimental films made between 1993–2002. He formed an independent production company, Future East, in 2005, providing an infrastructure for him to work outside mainstream film channels.
Ahluwalia was selected by the San Francisco Film Society as their Artist in Residence for 2013.
The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to artistic or literary heritage."
In November 2013, he was selected to be on the Jury of the 8th edition of the Rome Film Festival for the CinemaXXI section. Ahluwalia was named "one of the ten best emerging film directors working today" by Phaidon Press in "Take 100: The Future of Film.".