Lucky

Name of Film	Lucky
Director	Avie Luthra
Country	South Africa
Language	Zulu
Mins	100 mins
Producer	Christopher J. Wilmot
Synopsis	Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village for the bright lights of Durban. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has to learn about life the hard way, not through school or education but through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian neighbour.
Note on Director	Avie Luthra is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He began his filmmaking with a short film entitled Baby which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Student Film in 2002.[1]His second film entitled Cross My Heart was awarded special commendation by London Film Festival TCM Shorts in 2002.[1] His screenwriting credits include episodes of The Canterbury Tales in 2003 and the screenplay for the film Indian Dream.[1] He wroteOne Night in Bhopal, a documentary for the British Broadcasting Corporation, in 2004.[1] His short film, Lucky, about a South AfricanAIDS orphan, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and got a special mention at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. Lucky was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2006.[1] He is currently working on an adaptation of Preethi Nair's book, A Hundred Shades of White, for the BBC.[1] As of October 2007, he was in pre-production for his first feature film, "Mad, Sad & Bad". Meera Syal and Nitin Ganatra are cast in the lead parts and the film is being produced by Bex Hopkins, who produced 'Cross My Heart' and 'Lucky', and Christine Alderson for Ipso Facto Films and Roister Doister Films.[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Luthra
Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcSgBnVc7Q
Sources	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Luthra http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=672