Fleeting Beauty

Fleeting Beauty is a 2004 Independent short film directed by Virginia Pitts, a lecturer of Waikato University. The film stars Nandita Das and Will Wallace in the lead. The film is about the story of an immigrant Indian woman and her white lover in New Zealand. The film attempts to explore the colonial history of the Indian subcontinent.

The film was jointly produced by Sarina Pearson and Shuchi Kothariboth are lecturers at the Department of film, Television, and Media Studies, University of Auckland. It was also production debut of the latter. Before producing the film she has written screenplays for films produced in New Zealand, United States of America and India. The film, shot completely in New Zealand was rejected by the Film Commission and Creative New Zealand, the national arts development agency of the New Zealand, as they felt it lacked New Zealand content.The film was premiered at various film festivals like the International Film Festival of Kerala, Valladolid International Film Festival, Festival des Films du Monde Montreal and New Zealand International Film Festival in 2004. ........

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