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Indian Art House. Veera was often taken to watch movies by her father in the local cinemas playing
Hollywood films, this was a significant influence in her childhood. David Lean's Doctor Zhivago and the grand epic narratives and adventure films like "Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid" coupled with detective stories and science fiction, which she read avidly, fascinated her immensely. In high school Veera was introduced to the Indian master Satyajit Ray – his films and short stories, which would affect her strongly in her cinematic development. She started watching lot of the World Cinema directors specially French New Wave directors – François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson and Hollywood directors – Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Pollack, by renting videos and going to small theatres and film clubs in Hyderabad while graduating from college, and was enamored by directors like Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky and Luis Buñuel. She graduated in Science (St. Ann's College Hyderabad) and was a bright student, however, she decided to discontinue her education in science and pursue her ultimate passion for cinema. After a brief stint in M.A Theatre Arts, Central University Hyderabad (1999) and acting in plays she joined the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, the prestigious national film institute in India. She graduated in Film Direction.
110:, color) which is slated for a worldwide release in 2014, which she wrote, directed and produced under her company Imaginem Cinema, and on which Veera is also the production designer, and extensively collaborated on sound design, film editing and music, won the "Best Director" at the 12th Osian Cinefan in India in 2012 and Veera was also awarded the Indibor Bose Award for Excellence in Cinema (November 2013), instituted by Cine Central one of the oldest film societies, founded by the legendary master Satyajit Ray in Calcutta. This is the first award instituted in 45 years since the formation of this society for a Film Director. "Ballad of Rustom" had unveiled its trailer at the Cannes Marche du Film (2012) and opened at the 61st International Film Festival Mannheim, Heidelberg, in international competition in November 2012, the oldest film festival parallel to Cannes and went to screen in International Film Festival Prague (2013), Czech Republic. Ajita Suchitra Veera is the first Indian director to be invited to this European festival in its 20 long years which has seen World Cinema masters such as Wim Wenders, Roman Polanski, and Krystoff Zanussi. "Ballad of Rustom" was also screened at the 17th International Film Festival Kerala, & International Film Festival Hague, Netherlands (2013) and the 12th Osian Cinefan, New Delhi (2012).
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