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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