by Dov Kornits
As award-winning short filmmaker Anthony Maras puts the finishing touches on his debut feature Hotel Mumbai, co-written with John Collee and starring Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland), Dev Patel, Armie Hammer and Jason Isaacs, and set for release by The Weinstein Company in the US, another production, Australian indie feature One Less God has released a trailer to precede their June premiere at the Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles.
One Less God marks the debut for writer/director Liam Worthington, who had this to say about the project: “With 166 people killed, over 600 injured and thousands swept up in the events, it was India’s 9/11. We spent years researching and writing, and once we became immersed in the events and the geo-politics, we knew we needed to get beyond the timeline of events that were filling the news cycles. We wanted to get to the heart of the tragedy, and also beyond it, to the people on both ends of the guns.”
Co-producer Nelson Lau chimed in: “Conceived eight years ago and filmed and produced over three years, One Less God is a truly independent feature largely created by sweat equity and grass roots industry support. But more than that – it is a feature made by people of many different faiths: Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jews, Buddhists and those of no faith as well. I think together we have made a deeply humanist film that shrinks from nothing, which we believe is vital right now in this divisive political
climate.”
Michael Trent Co-Founder – Dances With Films said: “One of the most masterful works that we’ve seen come out of the Australian independent scene, One Less God is powerfully relevant considering today’s headlines and we are honored to have the opportunity of presenting it to the world.”
