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A Passage to Ottawa

Item number (ISN):

381564

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2001

Item number (ISN):

381564

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

TRANSVISION FILMS

Accession:

2007-0068

Media:

Film

Original title:

A Passage to Ottawa

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

2001

Production company:

Transvision Films

Production credit:

director/photography/editing, Gaurav Seth; producer, Rashmi Tekha; Rajendra Gupta; scenario/editing, Jameel Khaja

Cast credit:

Nabil Mehta, Amy Sobol, Jim Codrington, Ivan Smith, Franceen Brodkin, Dan Beamish, Marion Finklestein, Didier Garrett, Nicholas Gignac, Daniel Dignac, Jimmy Seymour, Gary Fine, Jesse Todd, Alison Darcy, Elize Chazan

Description:

"Omi, an eight-year-old East Indian boy is sent to Ottawa to live with his uncle due to his mother's illness back home. He has no father and unaware that his mother is likely to die, Omi believes that he is on a secret mission to find a superhero to take back with him to India to save his mother. Omi connects emotionally with Roland, captain of a local tour boat who in turn begins a romance with Safia, Omi's feisty teenager cousin who is assigned to take care of him." <90mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Synopsis taken from the programme to the 2002 Berlinale, where A Passage to Ottawa screened as part of Kinderfilmfest. ~2. A Passage to Ottawa has screened world-wide and won many awards, including a Crystal Bear from the Berline Film Festival. His second feature, Pink Ludoos, was also an award winning title, (Best Film at Reel World Film Festival-Toronto, Audience Award-Whistler (this feature was written with a Praxis scholarship and the aid of the Screenwriters Assistance Program). He has made 7 shorts.~3. This is Gaurav Seth's first feature film. He studied filmmakeing at The Russian Federation State Institute of Cinematography.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

440705

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-08-0007
2007-08-0008
2007-08-0009
2007-08-0010
2007-08-0011

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

440740

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-08-0012
2007-08-0013
2007-08-0014
2007-08-0015
2007-08-0016

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

Consultation open.

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Transvision Films

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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