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Gold House Brings Stars to the Party and Gives Short Films a Place at the Table
· New York time
Gold House launched a South Asian shorts fund at its largest Gold Diwali event to date in Los Angeles. Ranbir Kapoor and Yash, stars of Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, opened the celebration at The Majestic Downtown alongside filmmakers Nitesh Tiwari and Namit Malhotra, Variety reported. The event came a week before the film's release and combined a high-profile gathering with a new effort to support short films. Gold House works to back and celebrate the Asian Pacific community, and the fund puts emerging creators alongside established names in the evening's news. A short film can give a filmmaker a chance to develop a project outside the scale of a feature, although a fund's announcement is only the beginning of the work of getting projects made. The timing also shows why a ballroom full of recognizable talent can be useful: attention gathered for a celebration can illuminate an initiative that might otherwise struggle to compete with a major release. Hollywood often treats the short form as a stepping stone to a larger production. Here, it got its own place on a night featuring a sizable epic and the stars promoting it. The practical challenge comes after the lights and introductions: turning the fund into opportunities for filmmakers whose names are not yet on the marquee.
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