[Assam] Fwd: CENTER MASS

[Chan Mahanta]

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>From: SHANKAR BORUA <gahori at hotmail.com>
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>Subject: CENTER MASS
>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:34:57 -0600
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>CENTER MASS Trailer
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><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9jpiIzDuU>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9jpiIzDuU
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>CENTER MASS (107 mins., 2008)
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>ProducerŠŠŠŠŠŠ..Rita Watkins
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>Executive ProducerŠŠŠŠ.David Webb
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>Line ProducerŠŠŠ..David Epps
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>CameraŠŠŠŠShankar  Borua
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>MusicŠŠŠŠ.Chandra Cogburn
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>EditingŠŠŠŠ.Shelley Rash, David Epps, Michael Wolfskill
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>Sound MixŠŠŠŠ.David Epps
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>GraphicsŠŠŠŠ.David Hoffpauir and Shelley Rash
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>DirectorŠŠŠ..Shankar  Borua
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>Director Bio:
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>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 is on 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 longingsŠ), 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.
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>Synopsis: CENTER MASS (107 mins.)
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>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.
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>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.
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>Contact:
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>Shankar Borua
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>Tel: 936 436 2083
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>SHANKAR BORUA
>THE ASSAMESE STORYTELLER
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