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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