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This is the second interview of the Pusan series, if one might call it so, following the interview of Partho Sen-Gupta (http://passionforcinema.com/pusan-partho-sen-gupta-on-ppp-and-his-arunoday/).

Shera’s Ocean of an Old Man is being showcased in the New Currents section of the Pusan International Film Festival as one of the six projects selected for the Independent Feature Post-production Fund of the Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) programme, considered a recognition for best emerging talents from Asia:

How did you get to know about this particular fund of Pusan film fest, and what kind of selection process you underwent before your project got selected?

My associate producer Pinaki Chatterji, who got associated with my film from the last year’s Film Bazaar, IFFI, Goa, had informed me about the ACF. For the selection process, I had to send the rough cut of film to Pusan selection committee along with the shooting script.

How would this selection help your project?

This fund …

Three films from India– one complete and two planned – have been selected by the Pusan International Film Festival for its programmes targeted at helping independent Asian filmmakers.
Paris-based Partho Sen-Gupta’s Arunoday (Sunrise) is the only Indian entry among 30 selected from all over Asia for the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) project market, designed to help them find co producers and financiers. The 30 were selected from among 200-plus entries received.

Some of us might have seen Partho’s earlier (and first) film Hawa Aaney Dey (Let the Wind Blow), which was partly funded by Fonds Sud of the French Cultural Ministry.

The Arunoday website gives the synopsis as thus:

“In Mumbai, Inspector Joshi is sent to investigate the kidnapping of a street child. As he searches for clues, he meets a six year old boy named Manu. Joshi is strangely drawn to the boy. He starts visiting him, trying to befriend him but …