Trailer Ahluwalia+Abbasi: Unplugged on the Upper East Side

Watch the OFFICIAL TRAILER of the short film, nominated for a 2013 AMPIA Award for Best Cross-Platform & Transmedia Production

SYNOPSIS

Kiran Ahluwalia, a Juno-award winning ghazal singer, lives, loves and rehearses with her husband-jazz guitarist, Rez Abbasi, in their Upper East Side apartment. Kiran and filmmaker Punam Kumar Gill were part of an exciting Twitter chatt on March 27th, discussing their respective artforms and the Indian culture.

OFFICIAL TRAILER Ahluwalia+Abbasi: Unplugged on the Upper East Side from PunamArts on Vimeo.

Executive Producers: Manjot & Nimit AGGARWAL, Sam & Rick ANAND, Netasha & Harjit BASRA, Sara BATEMAN, Kyrsten BLAIR, Karen BROTHERS, Alex BRUTON, Japant BRAR & Raj CHAHAL, Aman & George CHAHAL, Renu & Shamir CHANDARANA, Karen & Raj CHEEMA, Rinku & Paul DHALIWAL, Sharni & Manjeet DHILLON, Lynn FREEBURY, Tannis & Steve GAFFNEY, Pritha & Hardip KALAR, Saifa & Jerry KOONAR, Anu & Manish KUMAR, Elan LAMONTAGNE, Victoria LI, Ken LIMA-COEHLO, Ian McLENNAN, Renu & Vinod MAHAJAN, Toby MALLOY, Mohak MATHUR, Joan & Eugene MILES, Claire CUMMINGS & Evan OSENTON, Celeste & Bill PETERS, Lorelei PIOTTO, Roth&Ramberg PHOTOGRAPHY, Walter SCHWAGER, Devina & Raj SHARMA, Rupi & Ravi SOOD, Bava WADHWA

The 5Q Interview with Amrita Singh

5 questions, 5 minutes. Jewelry designer, Amrita Singh, lets us into her Soho studio during New York Fashion Week.

Her designs have been featured in Vogue, Elle, O Magazine, and worn by celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Sophia Vergara and Anne Hathaway. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Amrita came up through the ranks at fashion houses like Oscar de la Renta and Cartier. (please be patient as the video loads)

The 5Q Interview with Amrita Singh (PunamArts) from PunamArts on Vimeo.

Other videos on Vimeo by PunamArts

the baby cliff

Just released - here is a really fun short film for which I served as Associate Producer.  The best part? I got to work with 2 tremendously talented and savvy female directors - Dominique Keller and Smita Acharyya.  The worst part? The paperwork!

Filmmaking is equal parts creativity and business - there is a great deal of dotting i's and crossing t's. The short film is binders full of contracts, releases, script revisions, funding applications, expense forms. 

It is so satisfying for me to see all the work jump off the page and out of the binder into this short film with great performances.

 Above, Smita and Dominique on the verge of the cliff. Will they, won't they...take the motherhood plunge? For more information on The Baby Cliff project, click here.

The 5Q Interview with Vikram Vij

Called "The 5Q Interview", the video is more of a journey into chef Vikram Vij's philosophical bearings than a traditional interview about food and wine.  With references to Mahatma Gandhi, cultural identity, sexual orientation and atheism, the portrait captures the chef's essence and life outlook in under 10 minutes and in the confines of 5 questions.

Pitch it with Vikram Vij

I pitched my mom's specialty dish to acclaimed chef, Vikram Vij. It went a little somethin' like this...

Ollie I à VI

Ollie: I à VI from PunamArts on Vimeo.

Kids who are a handful are also a heartful.

Ollie's one of those kids. Ever reaching for more....icing. I was so inspired by little Ollie that I rushed home from his birthday party and made this little video to try to capture him. When I shared the video with Vicki and Sylvain, Ollie's parents, Sylvain asked, "The song.....where did you get it? It basically says: 'Olivier you are getting on my nerves...Olivier ok that's enough' which is what I want to tell him most days." Yep, never a dull day with this kid. Ollie inspires me. So do his parents' patience. 

YOUNG MASTERS (TRAILER)

Follows the intense journey of three Canadian skill champions who train and compete for the gold medal at the 40^th WorldSkills Competition.  

Young Masters Trailer from PunamArts on Vimeo.

THE LESSON

Punam's first film, THE LESSON was a Top 10 finalist in Radio-Canada International's online Migrations Film Festival. Watch the competition version of this film (8 mins).