'Kavi' loses Oscar to 'The New Tenants'
IANS [ Sun, Mar 7, 2010 ]
- Los Angeles, March 8 (IANS) American director Gregg Helvey's 19-minute film "Kavi", about a young Indian boy who wants to play cricket and go to school, but is forced to work in a brick kiln, lost the best short film, live action Oscar to "The New Tenants".
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson walked away with the award for telling the story of a prying neighbour, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta in "The New Tenants".