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Maitreyee Handique BUSINESS STANDARD

An international crew comes together over the Internet and proceeds to Ladakh to film a feature

It sounds more like a small-scale international cooperative enterprise than a film unit. A young Indian director ventures into his first feature film project and a UK-based artificial intelligence software expert, who turned film producer 10 months ago, floats a startup to bring out the first product.

The entire film crew, recruited from India, Belgium, UK and Switzerland, through the Internet site www.shootingpeople.org, have never met before, yet on the strength of the script finds a cause worthy enough to fly down to India at their own expense for the shooting that clocked 16 days.

 

The main actor fractures his arm, and the incident becomes a detail in the bigger story. That

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First Published: Jan 11 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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