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I was working as a musical demonstrator in tourist shops and the way I used to |
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deal with musical instruments nobody dealt |
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because I used to tune all the instruments in one kind of pitch |
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so if I played one instrument, all of the instruments used to vibrate |
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and everybody loved it. |
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Some tourists wanted me to teach them to play music |
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and one of them got interested to bring me to Europe |
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and he gave me the ticket. |
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When I arrived I was so excited but I had only two dollars in my pocket. |
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Okay now our winner is a truly inspiring individual, |
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who despite suffering a severe disability has gone on to achieve outstanding success. |
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Through his music he has collaborated with artists from across the world |
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saying he wants to bring understanding between cultures. |
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He's worked with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, and Shakira. |
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So the winner of the GG2 achievement through adversity award |
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goes to Baluji Shrivastav, musical director and founder |
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of the Baluji Music Foundation. |
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Mr. Dhanoday Shrivastav for services to music. |
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Baluji |
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Okay prince! |
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Prince! |
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We've got two princes! |
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Baluji the great king and Madam the great queen |
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You look as though you're both getting married today |
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- What? - Wedding, shaadi |
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- There's a hook here - Thank you |
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- I need.... |
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- What do you need? |
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- Someone who dresses me up like you. |
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Hmm, yes now I feel like an artist yes. |
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Do I? |
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I was six days old when my mother had a dream that I was in a palace and |
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lots of princes were dancing and playing music, singing, |
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there was a lot of music. |
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In India we believe that whatever comes on the 6th day of a child's birth |
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the child becomes like that. |
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And probably I think that's why I have become blind because if I didn't become blind, |
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I wouldn't be a musician. |
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When I was eight years old I touched this beautiful |
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instrument which I didn't know the name of it, |
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I just liked the shape. |
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The shape of the instrument is so beautiful. |
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My father, he used to read me episodes about Yogi's and lots of devotees. |
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I was told that if I meditate I'll become sighted again. |
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And I used to meditate on the roof of the house without clothes, for eight to ten hours. |
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My brother got married first who is my younger brother. |
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And my parents didn't even think about my marriage. |
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They wanted me to become a hermit. |
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And I just didn't know what to do. |
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That was my life. |
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I was born in a village. |
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When I was eight months old |
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I had an eye infection |
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and a woman suggested that she has cured her eight children so she can cure me too |
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and she gave me medicine which she put inside the eyes, |
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she shouldn't have put it inside the lid. |
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She put the bandage on for three days. |
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And after three days one eye came out |
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and the other eye was slowly gone too. |
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And then she told my mother who was 15 years old, it's a dirt just throw it away. |
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This is called Inner Vision Orchestra |
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and people keep asking me: "what is inner vision?" |
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You have inner vision I have got inner vision. |
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And we have got inner vision so much that we can see without without seeing. |
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So sometimes I say: I can't see you, how can you see me? |
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So what I'm trying to say is |
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please close your eyes and listen to us. |
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When I came to the UK I heard different kinds of music |
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Turkish, Greek, Indian, Pakistani. |
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I was thinking that, if I can hear that kind of music |
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and that kind of people live here, why can't we have blind people from all over the world here. |
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And I've formed an orchestra called Inner Vision. |
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We listen to each other, we concentrate on music and we can improvise. |
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So it's like a conversation |
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That's not me playing it's Baldev playing. |
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Kin-a-kay, kin-a-kay, kin-a-kay |
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This is the sound of the cymbals. |
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And then dholak plays |
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baka-daka-ding-dang |
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God with the three legs. |
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Which one is it? |
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There are two pumpkin ones over here |
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Yeah that's one of them, but I need the cover. |
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Okay so, this is the pumpkin one with the decorative go |
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and this is the one with the plain gourd. |
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When I was in Paris, our friends introduced me to Linda. |
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She wanted to learn Indian music. |
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She sang and I played Sitar. |
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I liked her singing. |
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A love at first kiss |
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Love at first bite. |
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Once I stayed in Europe, I had to restart my market |
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and Linda was very good she wrote 123 letters about me |
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and someone wanted me to play in their concert in Centre Pompidou |
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which was very exciting for me. |
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And I asked them for the rehearsal and they said: oh you don't need a rehearsal |
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you're such a brilliant musician. |
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And when I arrived there I just couldn't understand anything, |
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bang bang bang |
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That music was free jazz. |
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Then they said: play play |
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What should I play? |
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Anything you like. |
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And straight coming from Indian classical music and being introduced to free jazz |
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is like throwing you in the deep end. |
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And I was getting angry and they had to take me away |
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because I was swearing. |
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Before I met Linda |
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my perception was, like my teachers said: |
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there is no better music than Indian classical music. |
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She made me aware that music is not only in singing and playing classical music, |
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music can be in everything. |
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Now I can understand the impact of it |
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I can understand the poetry of it. |
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Without music there is nothing. |
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When I saw you |
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this thought came to me |
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life is strong sun |
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and you are soothing shade. |
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When I saw you |
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this thought came to me |
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I mean Linda. |
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She approached me and I'm with her and I'm very glad that she did. |
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With a blind person there are so many responsibilities that come |
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and I have entered in somebody's life who is a talented musician herself |
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and I have taken all. |
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I went to India to my birthplace |
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and this woman who made me blind, she was there. |
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I touched her feet and I said I'm very grateful that you made me blind |
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I thought that way, I didn't just say it. |
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because if she didn't do it |
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I wouldn't see this world. |
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Improvisation comes from the heart |
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which speaks yourself |
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You are breathing music |
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you are throwing music |
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you are giving your feeling to everyone |
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you are the composer |
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you are the musician |
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you are the music. |
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Featuring Baluji Shrivastav and Linda Shanson |
Credit Roll
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Featuring
Baluji Shrivastav & Linda Shanson
Also featuring
Leela Shanson
Ben Shanson
Stephen Morris
Blind child
Rinku Prajapati
Executive Producer
Alex Usbourne
Associate Producers
Hesta & David Spiro
Jay Sanghavi
Director, Producer
Marie-Cécile Embleton
Creative Producer
Seemab Gul
Cinematographer
Marie-Cécile Embleton
Camera Assistant
Francisco Rodriguez
Additional Camera
Alejandro Taraff
Alberto Balazs
Simona Susnea
Tom Ralph
Claudio Cecconi
Seemab Gul
Sahsa Bajac
Tiff Wear
Silver
Editor
Romain Beck
Sound Recordist & Sound Design
Andrej Bako
Additional Sound Recordists
Joel Neal
Bruce Wuilloud
Mustafa Bal
Colourist
Sara Buxton
Researchers
Zoe Gelber
Emily Wright
James Rimmer
Musicians
Sitar
Baluji Shrivastav
Tabla
Ilyas Raphael Khan
Percussion
Danny Bryan
Guitar
Boo-Boo Sianturi
Inner Vision Orchestra
Tabla: Baldev Singh
Oud: Ziad Sinno
Guitar: Rikki Jodelko
Mini cymbals: Peggy Scott
Vocals: Fereshteh Khosroujerdy
Viola: Takashi Kikuchi
Soprano: Victo ria Oruwari
Pianist: Abi Baker
Keyboard: Tristram Llewellyn
Dancers
Shree Ramana Maharishi Academy blind dancers
Miss Rohini Kambagi
Miss Rupini S
Miss Swetha
Miss Deepa
Mr Praveenkumar
Master Davan
Mr Dinesh G.V
Mr Dhramaraj
Miss Gracy N.J
Music
Raag Bhairvi by Baluji Shrivastav
Misra Bhairvi by Baluji Shrivastav
Satsang from Swami Bagh
Alaap in Raag Mishra Bhairvi by Baluji Shrivastav
Bint Al Shalabia
Third movement on sitar and guitar by Baluji Shrivastav
The People band - AKA The Ensemble - from Mike Figgis’s film ‘Stormy Monday’
Tumko dekha to ye khayaal aaya
Jhalla and tihi in Raag Bhairvi by Baluji Shrivastav
With thanks to:
Swami Bagh Temple
Rich Mix London
Surkuti Blind School, founded by Baluji Shrivastav
Tara Arts
Esteban Ruseler, Alys Tomlinson, Alice Russel, Max Bailie, Jatinder
Verma
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to
our kickstarter and made this film possible:
Jon Rusbridge, Laura Shacham, Brigitte Piccolo, Alys
Tomlinson, Will Yong,
David Yaghoobi, Philippa Frisby, Shaf Mansour, Judith Moore, Jessica
Charleston, Peter Schneider, Taro Tsuruta, Devon Hazel, David Taylor,
Sophie Silocchi, Julie Buckland, Jimi Can, Annalise Pask, David Whitton,
John-Paul Gibbs, Neil Embleton, Alessandro Leonardi, Hannah Asen, Chris
Mahood, Jacqueline Gestach, Nigel Meager, Emily Kearns, Tom Crowley,
Keith and Gill Embleton, Tiff Wear, Angela Sansone, Shane Pomeroy,
Merryn Threadgould, Roger Clarke, George Gelber, Barbara Rusbridge,
Thornbridge, Alice Bird, Rosemary Waddington, Katia Sand, Ailien
Rhijnsburger, Jay Shanghavi, Alice Russell, Crispin Paine, Emilie
Edwards,
Wet Picnic Theatre Company, Rose Orlik, Clare Schrader, Heather, Priti
Raja, Andrew Styles, Tony Volker, James Risdon, Alice Baxter, Will
Connor,
Carol Allen Storey, Tessa Sillars-Powell, Grace
Robinson, Clare Fawcus,
Anna Nguyen, Robert Armitage, Sudha Patel, Chris Gallie, Chris Margrett,
Lanna Ford, Chris Evans, Tim Penny, Owen Normand, Lucy Fawcett, Anne
Parisio, Tim Smart, A Well Wisher, Christopher Orlik, Esme Horne,
Krzysztof
Candrowicz, Mark Millais, Constance Jehu, Oliver Ward, Ellie Rose
Rusbridge,
Beatriz Belfrage, Olivia, Jennifer, JG Mastrangelo, Olly, Bean
Downes, Susie Williams, Louis-Jack-Horton-Stephens, Nicholas Carter,
Charlotte Royle, Bernard Michael Murphy, Mandy Charleston,
Kevin
Satizabal, Carrie Steers,
Sue-Horton Stephens, Mark, Kwojo Ackah, Erik
Sleutjes, Danail Solaimani, Mark Woolford, Charlotte, Joanna Linden-
Montes, Heidi Lipsanen, Katharine Daish, Nick Bastin, David & Helen
Beales,
Riccardo Montana, Maisie Platts,
Joaquin Albero, Peter Wear,
Caroline Fahmy, Julian Filochowski, Alexia, Amy Birtles, Molli
claypool,
Ikaraam Ullah, Mary Crawford, Orla Charlton, Kate West, Jake Rusby, Willie
Harbinson, Steven Legere, Naomi, Coralie Edwards, Minnie Kemp, Anne
Bell, Nina hoegg, Esme Hilliard, Mark Herbert, Shura Harris, Annabel,
Jollen
Goffin, Tessa Laws, Chithra Jeyaram, Alison Davies, Ella and Ramesh
Vala,
Lucas Levitan, Sven Arnstein, Tommaso Valente, Gez Mendinger, Joanna
Ritchie, Kitty Wheeler Shaw,
Jack Drewry, Greg Stawski, Alex Davey, Ian
Michael Yates, Jane Moorhouse, Georgia Duncan, Misha Law, David Baker,
Wendy Carter, Mabel Holland, Margaret Sayfritz, Vic, Tieg Zaharia, Tom
Ingman, Sarah Tyler, Karen Morrison, Edd Bateman, Benjamin McKee, Ben
Shanson, Khairoun, Tom Hayes, Jennifer, Mansukh Gudka, Andrew Marle
Madalena, Sally Spurring, Timeless Lifeskills, Anna Debenham,
Sarah
Pearson, Benjamin Michael Haas, Joseph Hughes, Jeremy and Michele,
Mary Gibbs, Mustafa Bal, Clem Hitchcock, Barney Coates, Roger Billins,
Nadim, Laura Kehoe, Jenner del Vecchio, Olivia Sutton, Michael, Matt
King,
Anna Batchelor, Omar Al-Qattan, Harsh Persad, Steve Cole, Josh
Coppersmith Heaven, Damian Bell, Simon Ardizzone, Kirsten Bode, Lucy
Arthur
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In Association with
104 Films & Baluji Music Foundation
104 Films, Goldcrest, Baluji Music Foundation