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Angad Paul's film bags best UK feature film award
NRI industrialist and filmmaker Angad Paul's non-conventional thriller EMR won the Jury Prize for the Best UK Feature.
NRI industrialist and film-maker Angad Paul's non-conventional thriller EMR today won the Jury Prize for the Best UK Feature at the 12th London Raindance Film Festival.
Angad Paul, 34, Chief Executive of Caparo Group founded by his father Lord Swraj Paul, is the executive producer of EMR.
The film was selected from a large volume of features at the competition, it was officially announced today.
It made the best five UK features which included strong competition with Olivier Assyas's Clean starring Nick Nolte, Beatrice Dalle and Maggie Cheung (who won Best Actress award at Cannes for this role), along with the BBC Scotland Film Blinded starring Phyllida Law and Peter Mullan and the new film from award-winning director Richard Jobson The Purifiers.
"In this tough field, EMR, whose budget is a fraction of that of its competitors, triumphed winning the Jury Prize for Best UK feature, selected by a panel that included actors Jonny Lee Miller and Anna Friel, head of Miramax Europe Colin Vaines and the chief film critic of London's Time Out Magazine David Calhoun."
The film revolves around a conspiracy theorist addicted to the net, who becomes convinced that he's being experimented on by a multinational drugs company and begins to question the significance and truth of his world.
No conventional thriller, EMR is a dark trip into the psyche. Evocative of Jacob's Ladder and Memento, the film is directed by 29-year old Emmy-Nominated James Erskine.
