{"id":131183,"date":"2018-12-17T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgianewsdesk.com\/news\/story\/131183\/afreen-gets-nominated-and-wins-awards-across-film-festivals-from-all-over-the-world.html"},"modified":"2018-12-17T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:40:08","slug":"afreen-gets-nominated-and-wins-awards-across-film-festivals-from-all-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/story\/131183\/afreen-gets-nominated-and-wins-awards-across-film-festivals-from-all-over-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"AFREEN Gets Nominated And Wins Awards Across Film Festivals From all Over The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">AFREEN, a film by Director Aashish Chanana, has been nominated across film festivals all over the world, and has won quite a number of Awards, that include <strong>&lsquo;Best Film&rsquo;<\/strong> at the Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes, <strong>&lsquo;Best Actress&rsquo;<\/strong> at the Madrid International Film Festival in Spain and again, &lsquo;Best Film&rsquo; at the Independent Talents International Film Festival to name a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">AFREEN is a gripping, suspenseful drama that addresses the rising global threat of <strong>Islamic extremism<\/strong> through the eyes of a traumatized <strong>Iraq War refugee<\/strong> who swears revenge upon the West, but eventually finds herself torn about her ultimate deadly decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Recently, the film&rsquo;s <strong>Bollywood screening<\/strong> earned accolades from movie critics for <strong>Director and Producer Aashish Chanana<\/strong> and has been praised for his take on a sensitive and controversial yet important subject that many have not dared to talk about as yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/01f1280a878aadabad4f002fa7b39f0b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In an interview, Director Aashish talks about the movie, &ldquo;<strong>AFREEN is a true story<\/strong>, dealing with the Muslim mindset and the &lsquo;so-called&rsquo; American mindset&rdquo;, &ldquo;The character Afreen represents the audience &#8211; you, me, us, people who don&rsquo;t know who&rsquo;s right&rdquo;. Speaking on the Awards AFREEN has garnered from all over the world, he had this to say, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s encouraging and though I have never really won awards of such importance before, this surely encourages me to do a lot more&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For more information, visit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http:\/\/www.mediafactoryintl.com\/AFREEN\/&amp;v=A6gFzC6gFs8&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QiGxCK9W8nQCsVEddVeU3zcFhGB8MTU0NDg2NDg4NUAxNTQ0Nzc4NDg1\">http:\/\/www.mediafactoryintl.com\/AFREEN\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Some of AFREEN&rsquo;s other awards and nominations include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Winner for <strong>Best Feature Film<\/strong> at the Canadian Diversity Film Festival<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Winner for <strong>Best Director<\/strong> at the Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival in Moscow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Winner<\/strong> at Aphrodite Film Awards in New York for <strong>Best Film<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nomination at Starsburg International Film Festival for <strong>Best Film<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nomination for <strong>Best Narrative Feature Film<\/strong> at London International Motion Pictures<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nomination for <strong>Best Actress<\/strong> at the Madrid International Film Festival among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nomination for <strong>Best Film <\/strong>from Chandler International Film Festival with screening billed for January 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">AFREEN was recently selected as the Finalist for <strong>Best Film <\/strong>at the Antakya International Film Festival in Turkey and will be screened between the 21st and the 27th of December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/74f99c29f6d7c1a402e7d353e13fac9a.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Despite all the awards and nominations, Director, Chananahas been more concerned about the urgent, timely and topical subject matter of his film, AFREEN. He says. <strong>&ldquo;Our aim is not just for winning awards but to expose issues to as widespread an audience as possible and to bring about awareness&hellip; to initiate a dialogue that helps resolve some&rdquo;<\/strong>. However, the festival nominations that the movie has accrued are a testament to AFREEN&rsquo;S potency as a vehicle of entertainment, art and unbiased geopolitical commentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\"> Director Aashish Chanana will not be taking a break as he returns to directorial work on his next film <strong>&lsquo;NAFISA&rsquo;<\/strong> to be shot in early 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Link to the New AFREEN Trailer:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Video Link: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-_5QHQ7I2w\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-_5QHQ7I2w<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/mediafactoryintl.com_39926.html\">Media Factory International<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> NICOLE FERRE<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=afreen-gets-nominated-and-wins-awards-across-film-festivals-from-all-over-the-world\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> Canada<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafactoryintl.com\/AFREEN\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mediafactoryintl.com\/AFREEN\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=afreen-gets-nominated-and-wins-awards-across-film-festivals-from-all-over-the-world\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFREEN, a film by Director Aashish Chanana, has been nominated across film festivals all over the world, and has won quite a number of Awards, that include &lsquo;Best Film&rsquo; at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}