Dubai Film Festival 2007: FROZEN

One of the films screening at the 4th Dubai International Film Festival’s Celebration of Indian Cinema sidebar is Shivajee Chandrabhushan’s feature-film debut, Frozen, set in the Kashmiri Himalayas.
Written by Shanker Raman (from a story by Chandrabhushan), Frozen follows a teenage girl living with her father and younger brother in a remote mountain village. The family’s harsh but peaceful existence is drastically disrupted after the army settles at a nearby camp.
Spoken in Hindi and Ladakhi, and shot in black and white (by screenwriter Raman) in order to better convey the region’s starkness, Frozen was filmed at freezing temperatures at 12,000-foot altitudes (approx. 3,600 meters above sea level) . Earlier this year, the film won the Special Jury Award at the [...]

by Andre Soares | December 4, 2007   
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