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UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Friday, May 3rd - New York, NY @ Tribeca Cinemas (NY Indian Film Festival)
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NICE WORDS ABOUT THE FILM
New York Magazine: "Sharply funny"
Interview Magazine: "Part No Reservations, part Big Brother, part something smarter,
with lots of laughs, something to learn, and - naturally, given the company - an amazing soundtrack"
BlackBook: "Five Out Of Five... Singh [has] the mark of a fanboy filmmaker not yet jaded by the Merchants Of Cool-hood of pop music."
Huffington Post: "Amrit Singh's freewheeling short film" is "a laid-back hipster's approach to Indian cuisine."
Hyphen Magazine: "Frankly, the peek at this brotherhood may be even more appealing than the food."
Times Of India: "‘Dosa Hunt’ is more than just a
search for New York’s best dosa. It’s a short film
about the Indian
community’s growth and search for
cultural roots in the US."
FROM THE PREMIERE
Billboard Magazine's Report on the Premiere Event // Pretty Photos Of Everyone All Dressed Up
MORE NICE PRESS
NPR: WNYC's Soundcheck with Amrit & Anand / Gothamist: On the project's backdrop. // FADER: On the poster and its artist.
Asian American Writers Workshop: Ashok Interviews Amrit
PRESS FOR THE TRAILER NYTimes // The Awl // Hipster Runoff // IFC // Gothamist // FADER // PAPER // BlackBook // Brooklyn Vegan // Stereogum // Videogum
Eater (x2) // NYMag (Grub Street) // Food Republic // Daily Meal // Food Is The New Rock // NY Street Food
Rolling Stone (Russia) // Triple J Radio (@ 24:30) // NPR (A Blog Supreme) // Absolute Punk
ELLE India // Mumbai Boss // The Wild City // Thamarai // MEX & The City
S! Clarín // NJ Underground // Mishka // City Paper
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CONTACTamritsinghproductions@gmail.com
@dosahunt //// facebook.com/dosahunt
ABOUT DOSA HUNTDOSA HUNT is a short film by Amrit Singh featuring a diverse group of music-world friends -- Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Das Racist's Himanshu Suri and Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu, Yeasayer's Anand Wilder, Neon Indian's Alan Palomo, jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, and Stereogum's Executive Editor, Singh -- on a quest to find their hometown's best dosa. The delicious traditional South Indian crepe has earned this long-overdue cinematic closeup. But our our heroes' journey -- bantering in an Indian disco van, eating their way through the restaurants and grocery stores of Manhattan and Queens -- also explores the shared and respective cultures of this vibrant group of NYC artists in the wilds of their city. DOSA HUNT is a snapshot of a transitional generation in America's immigrant/art experience, in hot pursuit of good food.
ABOUT AMRIT SINGH
Amrit Singh has served as Executive Editor of Stereogum.com for seven years, writing and producing the website into a leading voice in independent music. His video journalism has appeared on ABC, MTV, and Fuse. (He also served as Editor of the University of Wisconsin International Law Journal, and is a NY State Bar certified attorney, but please don't remind his father of this.) DOSA HUNT is his directorial debut. (Full bio.)
Written, Directed & Produced by Amrit Singh
Directed, Edited & Produced by Sam Carroll
Edited & Produced by Zoe Schack
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Last night on NPR, Amrit and Anand joined John Schaefer on his great WNYC programme Soundcheck. They discussed the film and straight up ate dosa ON THE AIR. It’s a good chat! You can hear it at the Soundcheck page, or you can stream it below, OR you can have this MP3 forever. As you like.
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Here it is, the official DOSA HUNT movie poster! YESSS. Its backstory and creator (NYC tattoo artist Anil Gupta) are profiled in FADER, and Interview Mag, and over at the Asian American Writers Workshop. The poster will be available everywhere the film is showing — and we’ll have news on that front SOON Y’ALL. To be safe you can join the mailing list to keep up with future screenings news, provided we survive Hurricane Sandy. Stay dry, drink chai.
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Ashok And Amrit Go To The Movies
This is a long, digressive, and inordinately illuminating interview by Ashok of Amrit, wherein they find a connective thread on everything from blogging and lawyering to Britney Spears and the Wisconsin gurdwara tragedy, and of course, DOSA HUNT. It’s a good one, it is at the Asian American Writers Workshop.
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Billboard: DOSA HUNT Premiere Event Recap
Billboard’s piece on the film premiere @ Nitehawk Cinema hits on the important stuff: Who came. What was said. What Amrit’s Dad was wearing.
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BlackBook Magazine: Five Out Of Five Bobby Jindals For DOSA HUNT
BlackBook Magazine just filed the first proper DOSA HUNT review … and IT’S REALLY NICE. Some verbiage:
Singh contends, justifiably so, that “the film wasn’t just a vanity project,” but there’s certainly the mark of a fanboy filmmaker not yet jaded by the Merchants of Cool-hood of pop music.
The rest of the verbiage is also very nice to consume. Read it at Blackbook.
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NEW YORK Magazine took the cast’s Indian contingent out to lunch at Pongal (and called the film “sharply funny”). Catch the piece in NYMag’s new print issue, or online.
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Interview Magazine: Amrit Singh Puts The Indie In Indian Food
If you are curious about the background and making of the film, this conversation between John Norris and Amrit Singh is the one to read.
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In a new short film, Stereogum editor Amrit Singh invites six musicians on a hunt to find dinner. It debuts at Nitehawk Cinemas in Brooklyn this week; buy tickets for the premiere run here and click through to read our story.
A lovely piece on the official poster and its artist, Anil Gupta.
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Announcing the opening run of DOSA HUNT @ Nitehawk Cinema in Williasmburg on Friday 10/5, Saturday 10/6, and Monday 10/8!
Each ticket comes with dosa and samosa (provided by the delicious Anjappar). After each screening there will be a Q&A panel moderated by music television great John Norris. The afterparties will have complimentary Kingfisher beer, with DJ sets by DFA Artist REWARDS (Friday), Jagjaguwar artist Small Black (Saturday), and Quinn Walker of Frenchkiss Records outfit Suckers (Saturday). Tickets are $15 — for dinner, screening, beer, and friendship. THAT’S PRETTY GOOD.
Friday and Saturday doors are at 11PM (with dosa at 12AM, screening at 12:30AM), while Monday is a Columbus Day matinee at 1PM, which will be a special time. Dosa and drinking is a great way to observe that holiday given how much that dude loved Indians.
That above is an event-specific variation on the official film poster, by NYC tattoo artist/godbody Anil Gupta. He is the best.
We’re really proud of the movie and can’t wait to share it with you. These will be beautiful celebrations. We’d love to have you.
![Photos from the DOSA HUNT Premiere @ Nitehawk Cinema on 10/5
[Img by Laura June Kirsch]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbk5vxTdbo1qcg8opo1_1280.jpg "http://dosahunt.com/post/33143361289/premiere-photos")
