[Assam] Fw: Shankar Borua's new film CENTER MASS

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CENTER MASS (107 mins., 2008)

  

Producer………………..Rita Watkins



Executive Producer………….David Webb



Line Producer………..David Epps



Camera…………Shankar  Borua



Music………….Chandra Cogburn



Editing………….Shelley Rash, David Epps, Michael Wolfskill



Sound Mix………….David Epps



Graphics………….David Hoffpauir and Shelley Rash



Director………..Shankar  Borua

 





Director Bio: 

Shankar Borua is a filmmaker from Assam in North-East India. His first film ANGST AT LARGE (60 mins.) centered round the twin issues of nationality and identity in strife-torn Assam. IF GOD BE WITH US (120 mins.), his second feature documentary documents the struggle by the Nagas, an indigenous people at the tri-junction of India, China and Burma, resisting the occupation of their land and the appropriation of their heritage. Set against the backdrop of the turbulent civil war that has ravaged Assam for close to three decades now, HEPAAH (All those longings…), his first dramatic feature (130 mins.), is about a rag-tag band from a small town in Eastern Assam that makes it big. CENTER MASS is his first film in North America.





Synopsis: CENTER MASS (107 mins.)



The grand theme is about an adversarial relationship between two sets of people in America (pro-police and anti-police or more interestingly liberal versus conservative), and how a filmmaker from another land plays negotiator for once.  The template is the politically charged and touchy issue of police use of deadly force and the predicament of a free society in fairly investigating its own frontline representatives of the government, the police. Not to forget policing as a dangerous occupation set against the matrix of guns and violence in America. 



The film attempts to highlight the contradictions in the American social landscape, a landscape of extreme contrasts and an uneasy history of police brutality and highhandedness. It is a complex issue and the truth probably lies somewhere in between, not at either end of the spectrum.





Contact: 

Shankar Borua

1238 20th Street Apt # 3

Huntsville, Texas 77340 USA

Tel: 936 291 0078/ 936 294 4784

email: gahori at hotmail.com

 
http://www.spinglobe.com/friends/shankar
 
 






SHANKAR BORUA
THE ASSAMESE STORYTELLER
EMAIL : gahori at hotmail.com

WHEN THE CAMEL DECIDES TO SIT
THE NIGHT KNOWS IT'S TIME FOR THE NEW STORY


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