Osians festival sets lifetime winners Print E-mail
Written by Patrick Frater   
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Story Categories: Awards, Festivals, Film, India, People,

CANNES -- Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen and Jose "Pete" Lacaba will be given special awards at the upcoming Osian's-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema.

The New Delhi-based fest, now in its 10th frame, runs July 10-20, with a teaser event in Mumbai June 13-14.

Sen will receive a lifetime achievement award in recognition of a career that has spanned feature films, shorts and documentaries of differing content and cine-aesthetics.

Lacaba, who receives the Aruna Vasudev Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Cinema, is a bilingual poet, journalist, editor, translator, and screenwriter, with books that include "The Films of ASEAN" and screenplay credits that include "Jaguar," "Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim," "Orapronobis," "Sister Stella L.," "Eskapo," "Segurista" and "Rizal sa dapitan."

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