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Amit Gupta

AMIT GUPTA

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Sean Gascoine

Amit Gupta is a writer and director for theatre, film and television. His first feature, RESISTANCE, starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen, was nominated for three BAFTAs, Best First Feature by Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the CineVision Award at Munich. His second feature, JADOO, a drama comedy adapted from his own BBC Radio 4 play, premiered in Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festival 2013 and has played in over 35 international festivals. It was released theatrically in the UK in September 2013. Amit is a former winner of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Competition. His stage plays include OPTION which premiered at London's Tricycle Theatre and CAMPAIGN, part of the Olivier Award nominated and Liberty Human Rights Award winning THE GREAT GAME, which toured the US in 2010/11. He recently completed his latest feature, ONE CRAZY THING, which premiered in Los Angeles in April 2015 and was the Opening Gala at the East End Film Festival. It is being released theatrically in the US later this year and in the UK in 2016.: Amit is currently attached to direct adaptations of Virginia Woolf's 'Night and Day', as well as Joanna Kavenna's hugely acclaimed novel 'Come to the Edge'. He is also currently completing a brand new adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 'Widowers Houses' for Nicolas Kent. Amit is represented in the US by Abram Nalibotsky at Verve.

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         Campaign         Heroes         Option

Campaign

Campaign
Campaign is set in the Foreign Office today. there, Tom McKay's PPS to the Minister meets a Pakistani Oxford Don with a specialism in afghan affairs. the Minister is trying to engineer a diplomatic withdrawal using information about an afghan King of the 1920s who tried to modernise and was chucked out on his ear. One wonders where amit Khan got his political information, as it interprets current Government thinking in a very interesting light. .
- British theatre Guide

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part of A three month long festival About the culture And history of Afghanistan. entitled the Great Game: Afghanistan. the festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on A period of Afghan history: 1842-1930 : Invasions And Independence

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Historical

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Heroes

Synopsis:
about the hopes and dreams of a couple of kids from Belgrave set in present day Leicester.

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Haymarket, London, UK >>>    27 Mar 2001

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Option

Option
In 1964 the People's Republic of China carried out its first nuclear weapons-test. What followed in India was an intense period of soul searching. How should a nation founded on Gandhi's principles of non-violence react? In 1968 under increasingly intense pressure from the US and the Soviet Union to sign their jointly initiated Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, India finds herself at a crossroads. For three leading civil nuclear scientists the politicians' decision of which path to pursue will mark a turning point in all of their lives.

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Part of the Bomb  A partial history. FIRST BLaST: Proliferation

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Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849431521

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Genre:
short play

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