[Assam] Hollywood selects Assam Documentary for screening - Hindustan Times

[Ram Sarangapani]

A small-budget documentary film *In search of a Job* on the struggle and
pain of unemployed elephants of Assam has been selected for screening at
Hollywood's Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles.

The film, made by journalist Mrinal Talukdar, has been selected as Special
Invitation Film and the filmmaker has been invited to attend the Festival
from March 23 to 30 next.

The festival's Fusion Asian Cinema Programme Director Erika Kao-Haley said
in a faxed statement that as the documentary has been selected as a Special
Invitation Film, Talukdar would get the services of the Festival's marketing
and media campaign to assist with promoting the film to the press, general
audience and Hollywood filmmaking and distribution community.

The festival is one of the largest independent and critically acclaimed film
festivals in Los Angeles devoted to discovering cutting edge movies.

The film made in 2005 focuses on 1200 domestic unemployed elephants of Assam
along with their mahouts, who are desperate to find an alternative means of
livelihood, after Supreme Court banned timber felling in forests of North
East and the elephants lost their primary means of livelihood.

Meanwhile, the Paris-based 'Des Elephants Et Des Hommes' has also included
the documentary in their Hall of Fame as one of the important movies made on
elephant.
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