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'''Avie Luthra''' is an [[India]]n [[film]] [[Film director|director]] and [[screenwriter]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
He began his filmmaking with a short film entitled ''Baby'' which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Student Film in 2002.<ref name="Lucky">[http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/television/1183 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.<ref name="Lucky"/><br />
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His [[screenwriting]] credits include episodes of [[The Canterbury Tales]] in 2003 and the [[screenplay]] for the film ''Indian Dream''.<ref name="Lucky"/> He wrote ''One Night in Bhopal'', a documentary for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]], in 2004.<ref name="Lucky"/> His short film, ''[[Lucky (2005 film)|Lucky]]'', about a South African [[AIDS orphan]], premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and got a special mention at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. ''Lucky'' was nominated for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Short Film]] in 2006.<ref name="Lucky"/><br />
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He is currently working on an adaptation of Preethi Nair's book, ''A Hundred Shades of White'', for the BBC.<ref name="Lucky"/><br />
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As of October 2007, he was in pre-production for his first feature film, "Mad, Sad & Bad". [[Meera Syal]] and [[Nitin Ganatra]] are cast in the lead parts and the film is being produced by Bex Hopkins, who produced 'Cross My Heart' and 'Lucky', and [[Christine Alderson]] for Ipso Facto Films and Roister Doister Films.<ref name="Lucky"/><br />
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He is also a psychiatrist.<ref>{{Citation|last=Film Movement|title=Interview with Avie Luthra, director of LUCKY|date=2013-02-14|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo7BZYgsMzk|access-date=2018-11-07}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Short film]]<br />
*[[Cinema of India]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb name|0527449|Avie Luthra}}<br />
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