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Lucky the Movie 2012

Directed by Avie Luthra

Recent Film Festival News:

Cinekid Film Festival

LUCKY screened at the Cinekid International Film Festival in the Netherlands on October 20, 23, 24 & 25 2012! Learn more

Hawaii International Film Festival

LUCKY screened at the Hawaii International Film Festival on October 18, 2012! Learn more

Schlingel Film Festival

LUCKY screened at the Schlingel International Film Festival in Chemnitz, Germany on October 15, 17 & 18, 2012! Learn more

Scottsdale Film festival LUCKY screened at the Scottsdale International Film Festival in the Phoenix, Arizona area on October 8 & 9, 2012! Learn more
Koln Film Fest

LUCKY screened at the Cologne, Germany Film Festival on September 30, 2012 at 3pm.

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Montreal Film Festival

LUCKY screened at the Montreal International Black Film Festival on September 23 and 26, 2012.

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Trinidad and Togago Film Fetival

LUCKY screened at the Trinidad & Taboago Film Festival on September 24 and 30, 2012.

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Take One Action Film Festival Scottland LUCKY screened at the Take One Action Film Festival in Scotland September 22, 2012 at 5:30pm and 8:15pm. Our director Avie Luthra conducted Q&A following each showing! Learn more
San Francisco South Asian Film festival
LUCKY screened at the San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival on September 22, 2012. Learn more
Copenhagen Film Festival
LUCKY screened at the BUSTER Copenhagen Int'f Film Festival for Children and Youth on September 21, 2012. Our film was awarded Best Screenplay! Learn more
Hidden Gems Film Festival Calgary LUCKY screened at the Hidden Gems Film Festival in Calgary, Alberta in Canada in late August.

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Giffoni Film Festival LUCKY screened at the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago on
Aug 14th and 16th, 2012.
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Giffoni Film Festival

LUCKY was awarded the ARCA CINEMAGIOVANI AWARD at the 42nd Annual GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL in Italy in July 2012.

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Seatle International Film Festival LUCKY screened in the Seatle International Film Festival on May 25th & 29th and June 10th! Learn more
Happy Soul Film Festival LUCKY screened in the Happy Soul Film Festival (UK) on June 4th, 2012. Our director was in attendance. Learn more
Santa Cruz International Film Festival LUCKY screened in the Santa Cruz Film Festival (California, USA) on May 15th & 17th in the Nickelodeon Theater! Learn more
New York Indian Film Festival LUCKY screened in the New York Indian Film Festival on May 25th & 26th in the Tribeca Cinemas! Learn more
Indian Film Festival of Los Angels LUCKY screened in the Indian Film Festival of Los Angles on April 14th, 2012. Learn more
Director Avie Luthra was interviewed on radio station KPFK about the screening Listen to Interview Archive (Avie starts at 9:50 minutes in).
Worldfest Houston Film Festival LUCKY screened in the Worldfest-Houston Film Festival on April 14th, 2012. We won a Gold Remi award. Learn more
London Asian Film Festival LUCKY screened in the London Asian Film Festival on March 20th. We were awarded Best Crossover Film! Learn more
Atlanta International Film Festival 2012 LUCKY screened in the Atlanta (USA) Film Festival on March 24th Learn more
Fribourg International Film Festival 2012 LUCKY screened in the Fribourg (Switzerland) International Film Festival on March 25, 26, and 28, 2012! Our director and executive producer were in attendance. Learn more
Cleveland International Film Festival 2012 LUCKY screened in the Cleveland (USA) International Film Festival on March 30, 31 and April 1, 2012. Learn more
Hong Kong Film Festival LUCKY screened in the Hong Kong International Film Festival on March 31st and April 4th. Learn more
Cape Winelands Film Festival LUCKY made its African Premiere on March 14th in the Cape Winelands Film Festival in Cape Town, South Africa. We were their openng night film and we were awarded Special Mention! Learn more
Cinema Novo Belgium LUCKY made its European Premiere in the Cinema Novo Festival in Belgium on March 10, 2012! Learn more
LUCKY wins Best Film in the Bangaluru International Film Festival in Bangalore, India:
Benagluru Best Film 2011

LUCKY was awarded Best Film in Bangalore's International Film Festival on Dec 22, 2011. Pictured to the left is Executive Producer Christopher Wilmot proudly holding our award.

On Dec. 19 we had 1,000 people attend our opening night and received a standing ovation. Director Avie Luthra and actress Jayashree Basavaraj conducted a Q & A after the film & received wonderful feedback. Learn more

Bangaluru Award Presentation Jayashree Basavaraj proudly accepted the award at the ceremonies. Pictured to the left: Governor H R Bhardwaj and Jayashree greet each other at the closing ceremony of the fourth Bengaluru International Film Festival in Bangalore. (Courtesy: www.deccanherald.com)
Boulder Film Festival LUCKY screened on Saturday, Feb. 18 2012 at the Boulder International Film Festival in the Call2Action section. According to a festival spokesperson, "We had a great turn out for your film. There were about 400 people in attendance and so far the notes that I've seen said huge crowd". Learn more
Pan African Film Festival LUCKY screened on Wed. Feb 15, 2012 in the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. The Pan African Film Festival's goal is to present and showcase a broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes. Learn more
Santa Barbara International Film Festival LUCKY had its U.S. Premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival recently. Both screenings were sold out and the audiences loved it! See festival listing  
Palm Springs International Film Festival LUCKY had its United States debut at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in California, on Friday Jan 13, 2012 to a packed house. The audience response was very positive. We heard remarks like: "wonderful film", "great acting", "touching story", "it has given us a lot to think about", etc. See festival listing
Mumbai International Film Festival LUCKY screened at the Mumbia International Film Festival on October 19, 2011:
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Abu Dhabi International Film fFestival LUCKY screened to a sold-out show with 1,000 seats on Oct 16, 2011 in the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival!
We were awarded Best Actress for Jayashree's performance. See complete list
Listen to Director Avie Luthra's radio interview.
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Busan International Film Festival LUCKY screened at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea on October 7-9, 2011 Learn more
Atlantic Film Festival

LUCKY screened on Tue 9/20/11 at the Atlantic Film Festival:

We are honored to have been selected as their Programmer's Pick!
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Toronto Internatila Film Festival

LUCKY world premiered on September 11, 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Lucky was well received by audiences and critics at TIFF. We sold out all three of our public screenings. We received flattering reviews from Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, Macleans, NOW etc. Read media reviews