Echo Chamber - UK Asian Film Festival (The Seas Between Us)
It's a 'Special Edition' of @EchoChamberFP today!
Thanks to Cynthia Amsden we got to checkout a wonderful new Short film, which is having its European Premiere (10th May 2025) at the 'UK Asian Film Festival'!
We also had the opportunity to sit down and talk storytelling, culture, and so much more, with the creative mind behind it all!!!
'The Seas Between Us' is written & directed by Faisal Lutchmedial. In the mid 1960s a young girl (Sanjana Morang) who has never seen anything but rural Trinidad has her eyes opened to the world when her adventurous Auntie (Kavita Musty) from India comes to visit.
Watch the conversation: HERE!
Today we have:
The Seas Between Us - Poster
The Seas Between Us
Watch Review: Here.
15th Annual Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival: 13th - 19th April 2025
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival: 13th April 2025
Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival: 27th April 2025
UK Asian Film Festival, European Premiere: 10th May 2025
Director: Faisal Lutchmedial
Cast: Sanjana Morang, Kavita Musty, Joel Joseph, Sanjiv Boodhu, Patti-Anne Ali, Aria Bhaggan, Kavita Bhaggan, Dandre Blake, Andy Jones, Angenie Bahadoor Lutchmedial, Mishri Lutchmedial, Sumatee Maharaj, Vivekanand Singh
Credit: Green Dragon Productions
Genre: Drama, Family, Short
Running Time: 13:44 min
Cert: PG
Trailer: Here.
Website: Here.
Instagram: @theseasbetweenusmovie
Watch the conversation: HERE!
Faisal Lutchmedial
Faisal Lutchmedial
Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer, Actor, Visual Effects
Faisal’s work has explored the themes of identity, the immigrant experience, and loss. He’s directed numerous short films like the short Useless Things (2009) which won the Writers Guild of Canada English Script Prize at the Festival Nouveau Cinema Montreal, and the short Caribbean flavoured drama Mr. Crab, which aired nationally on CBC’s Short Film Face Off. In documentary he directed the labour rights themed feature doc, My Cultural Divide (2006). As a screenwriter Faisal worked on Ransom (Global/CBS), and Endlings (Hulu/CBC), and is an alum of the TIFF Writers Studio, the WarnerMedia Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program, and a winner of the WGC Bell Diverse Screenwriters Program.
Follow Faisal via:
IMDb: Here.
Linkedin: Here.
Website: Here.
X: @faisallutch
Facebook: Here.
Instagram: @faisallutchmedial
Vimeo: Here.
Green Dragon Productions - logo
Green Dragon Productions
Green Dragon Productions is a Canadian owned and operated film and television production house that specializes in creating thought provoking, and meaningful content that reflects the diverse world we live in.
Follow via:
Website: Here.
Facebook: Here.
Instagram: @greendragonproductions
Bluesky: Here.
YouTube: Here.
UK Asian Film Festival - logo
UK Asian Film Festival
The UK Asian Film Festival, previously known as the London Asian Film Festival, is a British film festival organised by the not-for-profit organisation Tongues on Fire Ltd. and takes place annually in the spring in London.
Information
Film Programme: Here.
Website: Here.
Instagram: @ukasianfilmfest
*(Music)
'Give The People' (Instrumental) by EPMD - 2020