鈥楢lgorithms鈥� documentary shown across India An award-winning documentary about India's young blind chess players has secured a general release in cinemas throughout the country. , directed by , a Senior Lecturer in Film Practice at 缅北禁地, follows three boys over a number of years as they compete in blind chess tournaments in India and abroad and visits them in their homes where they reveal their struggles, anxieties and hopes. Ian was inspired to make the film after reading an Indian newspaper clipping about blind chess back in 2006. 鈥淚t was a community that was almost unknown to the outside world,鈥� he said. 鈥淵et it was thriving and that fascinated me. 鈥淭o be part of their world for three years was a transformative experience. It changed my understanding of ability and disability and reminded me of the forgotten significance of touch. 鈥淐hess is really a mind game and is one of the few games where a blind person can play on par with a sighted opponent. In fact I made the mistake of challenging one of the boys to a match and he beat me in five minutes flat!鈥� Dr Geetha Jayaraman, the producer of Algorithms will be joining 缅北禁地 as a Lecturer in Film Practice in September, to teach the . She said: 鈥淲e are reeling from the rave reviews that our film is getting in India. It鈥檚 fantastic for the film and for blind chess and a vindication of years of hard work and sheer persistence!鈥� Algorithms was released in the USA in October and the UK in November 2014. It was and a National Film Academy award in the UK and has received accolades from all over the world, including: Best Foreign Documentary at the Los Angeles Femme Film Festival 2014 Best Story Award at Krasnogorski International Festival of Sport Films, Moscow, 2014 Best Editing Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 2014 Best Film at Film South Asia, Nepal, 2013 Audience Award at the RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Films, UK, 2013 Prix du Patrimoine Culturel Immateriel at the Jean Rouch Film Festival, Paris, 2013 Special Mention in the Best Documentary category at the Durban International Film Festival, South Africa, 2013 published on: 25 August 2015
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