It has not been talked so much here around but the S.A.I.F.F., celebrated a couple of weeks ago in New York (the big town a little bit lab and workshop together), is one of the most interesting world movie event.

It’s a festival dedicated to the Southasian film-makers that work in the United States. The countries interested by this event are India, by sure, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and above all the Indian Diaspora. It’s the celebration of the cross-over movie, a sort of inter-ethnic and bipolar marriage, that in the last few years has proposed different good works (lots of them pointed out in this blog) able to attract public from anywhere to make it closer to different kinds of reality.

During this sixth edition, where everything has been showed, rewarded and reviewed, the most ambitious prizes have been won by the actor and producer Sunil Shatty for his interpretation in “Red Alert the War Within”, based on the true story of a poor worker (Narasimha) become a terrorist in order to give a better future to his sons, that lives the contradictions and the ethical, moral and spiritual conflicts of his land and the whole world.

The prize for the best direction has been given to Anjali Menon for “Manjadikuru” , the story of a woman, her ideals, faith, perseverance and courage. Two projects that would have been a great chance for product placement, to propose to different and faraway people a philosophy of brand able to unify and communicate as much as these pioneers from the West Coast. Men and women full of ideals, courage and creativity, able to give us some fresh new air… as well as a bucketful of cold water.