Payal Kapadia made history Saturday, as she became the first person from India to win the Grand Prix award for her film “All We Imagine As Light.”
Filmmaker Payal Kapadia made history Saturday, as she became the first person from India to clinch the prestigious Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the second highest prize after the Palme d’Or. Kapadia’s film “All We Imagine As Light” is a drama centered on two Malayali nurses who have moved to a beautifully-shot Mumbai, and are navigating life, love and sisterhood. It is the first Indian movie in three decades to compete in Cannes’ main competition.
“Indian stars shining bright… These women have scripted history, and inspired the entire Indian film fraternity,” he wrote on the platform. Sooni Taraporevala, a screenwriter on “Salaam Bombay!” which won the festival’s Camera d’Or in 1988, told CNN that Kapadia’s “unprecedented” win “has personally touched women and those in the indie film space.
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