Avie Luthra is an Indian film

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and screenwriter.

Career

He began his filmmaking with a short film entitled ''Baby'' which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Student Film in 2002.Avie Luthra's new film makes waves on festival circuit
/ref> His second film entitled ''Cross My Heart'' was awarded special commendation by London Film Festival TCM Shorts in 2002. His

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credits include episodes of The Canterbury Tales in 2003 and the screenplay for the film ''Indian Dream''. He wrote ''One Night in Bhopal'', a documentary for the

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, in 2004. His short film, '' Lucky'', about a South African

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, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and got a special mention at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. ''Lucky'' was nominated for the

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in 2006. He is currently working on an adaptation of Preethi Nair's book, ''A Hundred Shades of White'', for the BBC. As of October 2007, he was in pre-production for his first feature film, "Mad, Sad & Bad".

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and

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are cast in the lead parts and the film is being produced by Bex Hopkins, who produced 'Cross My Heart' and 'Lucky', and

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for Ipso Facto Films and Roister Doister Films. He is also a psychiatrist.

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