Abhay Kumar
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Abhay Kumar is a double National Award-winning filmmaker from India. Abhay’s work often appears in response to power structures and systems which control access. His hybrid feature documentary Placebo (IDFA, Hotdocs) got a worldwide release on Netflix in 2016 and won the National Award for Best Investigative film 2017. Working with verité non-fiction, animation, found footage and fiction, Abhay's work tries to find a hybrid space in storytelling. Abhay's 2011 hybrid animation short just that sort of a day became the first Indian animation film to compete at the Tribeca Film Festival and won top awards at Busan, Regensburg and New York, and got him his first National Award for narration in short fiction in 2012. Abhay edited and produced About Love which won awards at Sheffield, DMZ Docs, Hainan and went on to secure distribution through POV, North America and a global release on Mubi in 2021. Abhay is also an alumni of the Berlinale Talents 2016 and attended Berlinale Talents 2021 under his artist name ‘Fugue’. storyteller.ink@gmail.com
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