CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR ACTA FINALISTS!
We are excited to reveal the finalists for the Eastern Eye Arts Culture and Theatre Awards (ACTAs), showcasing the very best of South Asian talent in the creative industries from literature, film, television, theatre, music, poetry, photography, dance and visual arts.
Najma Akhtar
 Pal Aron
 Midsommer Murders
							Ritu Arya
 Polite Society & Barbie 
							Sheela Banerjee
 What's in a Name? Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
							Anita Bhagwandas
 debut book UGLY
							Bhangra Nation
Samir Bhamra
Santanu Bhattacharya
 One Small Voice
							Lucca Chadwick-Patel
 My Beautiful Laundrette
							Professor Joya Chatterji
 Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
							Meneka Das
 A Doll’s House
							Poulomi Desai
Shomit Dutta
 Stumped
							Gavin Fernandes
Raj Ghatak
 The Father and the Assassin
							Tanika Gupta
Deepa Hattangady Karnad
 Marcus Hodge
 Polo Paintings in Manipur
							 Kerena Jagpal
 Drop the Dead Donkey - The Reawakening
							Aysha Kala ‘The Motive and The Cue’ and ‘The Father and the Assassin’
Siddharth Kara
 Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
							Priya Kansara
 Polite Society
							Tanya Katyal
 Testmatch
							Iqbal Khan
 Partition-based play Silence
							Komola Collective
Shahzad Latif
 What's Love Got to Do with It?
							Aditi Mangaldas
 Mehek
							MK Gallery
 Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
							Aakash Odedra Company
 Mehek
							Roopa Panesar
Bharti Parmar
 contribution for Entangled at the Royal Academy 
							Bhasker Patel
Jaivant Patel
 Waltzing The Blue Gods
							Jyoti Patel
 The Things That We Lost
							Seeta Patel
 The Rite of Spring
							Geeta Pendse
 The London Book Fair and her body of work at the BBC
							Phizzical Productions
	Kavita Puri
 Three Million 
	
								Walter Reid
 Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India 
	
							Hermann Rodrigues
Rogon Productions
Royal Academy 
 Entangled Pasts, 1768–now. Art, Colonialism and Change 
							Indhu Rubasingham MBE
Shubham Saraf
 Enemy of the People 
							Sunetra Sarker
 Professor T 
							Meera Syal CBE 
 Mrs Sidhu Investigates 
							Premi Tamang
 A Doll’s House 
							The Whole Kahani (The Complete Story)
Osman Yousefzada
 Welcome! A Palazzo for Immigrants  
							John Zubrzycki
 The Downfall of India’s Princely State
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