Mumbai: After struggling to raise funds to promote her film Village Rockstars in Hollywood as part of the Oscar campaign, filmmaker Rima Das is happy to have received financial support from the Assam government.
Village Rockstars is India’s official entry to the Academy Awards. ‘Promotions for Oscars are coming along all good.
We got Assam government’s money. We have received Rs 1 crore from them. We have started our journey, now let’s see. We are hopeful,’ Rima told.
Last year, Village Rockstars was a festival favourite which bagged the National Award and even won the Golden Gateway Award at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
In the 20th edition of MAMI, the director is part of the jury for Oxfam award. Post the overwhelming response to her film across the world, Das said life has not changed much for her, personally and she is instead much more relaxed today.
Dubbing Village Rockstars as a non-structured film, Rima said, ‘There’s no background score, there are a lot of silences and yet we did well during our theatrical run. So everything is interesting.” (PTI)
