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Call Me Dancer Is Resonating and Winning Awards with Audiences Around the World

Art of Storytelling Award ◦  Audience Award ◦  Excellence in Documentary Directing Award ◦ From New York City and across the planet, Call Me Dancer is receiving accolades, standing ovations, and recognition from experts in the film industry and audiences alike. New...

Jay Sean on Producing ‘Call Me Dancer’: Supporting Asians In The Arts

See this exclusive video interview with Executive Producer Jay Sean, who wrote two songs for the film. Call Me Dancer follows the story of a young Mumbai dancer who is determined to become a professional dancer despite his parents’ wishes that he would follow a...

Feb 5 – Review from Kirk Fernwood: From a village in Himachal Pradesh to the bustling streets of Mumbai, a unique talent resides within the masses

Read the full review at Onefilmfan.com Possibilities and the moments they create. While we might strive to look towards the future with a sense of optimistic fervor, too many times do those instances arise where we allow doubts and hesitations to sneak in, causing us...

Call Me Dancer is opening night film in NYC Dance On Camera festival! Feb 10, 2023

Dance Films Association (DFA) and Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) present the 51st edition of the Dance on Camera Festival from February 10 to 13, 2023. The festival opens with the New York premiere of Leslie Shampaine and Pip Gilmour's Call Me Dancer. Executive produced...
Call Me Dancer: a Film About the Love of Hip Hop, Ballet & Mumbai

Call Me Dancer: a Film About the Love of Hip Hop, Ballet & Mumbai

By Leslie Shampaine
Written for Indiaspora.org
“Welder’s Son from Mumbai Accepted into The Royal Ballet School in London,” were the headlines that went viral around the globe as Yehuda’s student became the first Indian to enter this elite academy.

Ballet dancers can best be compared to Olympic athletes. Behind that headline lie struggle, passion, heartache, and hard work. I know, because I was a professional ballet dancer and had attended the “Harvard” of ballet academies, the School of American Ballet, followed by a successful performing career.

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Turning Point: Yehuda Maor

Turning Point: Yehuda Maor

Article from Business Standard Weekend, March 7, 2020

Yehuda Ma’or’s jaw drops. He is reliving a moment from his childhood in the 1950s when, aged six or seven, he had just seen the film version of a Bolshoi Ballet recital of Swan Lake. “It was just ‘Wow’.

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