From the streets of India to the Oscars Red Carpet. “We’re collectively amazed,” he says during the E! red carpet show. “We never thought something like this would ever come around, so we’re just over ...
An Australian director known for Top Of The Lake, Garth Davis has made an impression this season with The Weinstein Company’s Lion, his feature film debut. Based on Saroo Brierley’s incredible true ...
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Saroo Brierley is a 36-year-old man with a powerful story of loss and love. As a 5-year-old child in India, he became impossibly lost in Calcutta, a sprawling, chaotic city of 14 million people. He ...
“Lion” is up for six Academy Awards, including nominations for best picture, adapted screenplay and supporting actor for stars Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. But the film wouldn’t have existed without ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Stephanie Merry, The Washington Post “Lion” is based on one of those stories that’s almost too incredible to be true. As a young boy growing up in a poor ...
In adapting Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home into the screenplay for Lion, Luke Davies knew his greatest challenge would be writing honestly about an experience—that of an Indian boy who gets ...
In this year's Oscar Best Picture race, there's a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, a romance-filled musical, and an eerie sci-fi thriller, among others. Yet while all the nominated films are ...
Since establishing their UK-Australian production banner See-Saw Films in 2008, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman have had a career trajectory that most young independent producers can only dream of.
If director Garth Davis' Lion ended after the first hour it would be a short feature film, but it would also be a film of immense, nearly unspeakable, heartbreak and yet one full of an equal measure ...
Garth Davis’ “Lion” tells the story of Saroo Brierley’s amazing journey from India to Australia at age 5 and his all but miraculous reunion with his birth mother decades later. Brierley chronicles his ...
LOS ANGELES — Sunny Pawar has had a long day after jetting from New York to L.A. But the 8-year-old star of the awards-contending film Lion is bright-eyed and smiling as he greets a journalist in a ...