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.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR ACTA FINALISTS!
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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