Talk:Lion (2016 film)

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Is it an Australian, or American, or co-production? Is it unclear? Most films have a country of origin. Grusl2017 (talk) 12:08, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good question, Australian. Weinstein is only the USA distributor

See-Saw Films is an independent film production company founded in 2008 by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman. See-Saw operates out of both London and Sydney.

'No mention of Weinstein: http://www.moviemaker.com/archives/winter-2017/international-co-production-lion-directors-without-borders/ Directors Without Borders: The Producers of Lion give the Lowdown on International Co-Production. By See-Saw Films and Aquarius Films on January 31, 2017 Our companies, Though it wasn’t an official co-production (no finance came from India and the entities who own the film are not Indian) .... Australia-and-U.K.-based See-Saw Films and Australia-based Aquarius Films, use international co-productions as a key strategy to tell great stories. We’ve produced films set and shot all over the world, .... Lion, an Australian-qualifying production shot in India.

No mention of Weinstein: Acclaimed Australian film Lion comes home with Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel ...It's the Australian film that has kept winning acclaim overseas without anyone seeing it in this country. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/acclaimed-australian-film-lion-comes-home-with-nicole-kidman-and-dev-patel-20161218-gtdta6.html

No mention of Weinstein: Producer Angie Fielder Emile Sherman Iain Canning

Executive Producers David Glasser Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Andrew Fraser Shahen Mekertichian Daniel Levin

SCREEN AUSTRALIA SUPPORTED http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/lion-2017/33123/

Australian: Like many great Australian films, Lion and Tanna are deeply connected to land ... they each represent something different about the current state of Australian cinema https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/24/oscars-2017-tanna-and-lion-bring-heart-to-hollywood-in-landmark-year-for-australian-film

Just five weeks after opening, Lion has leapfrogged other stellar Aussie films http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/dev-patels-lion-leapfrogs-to-top-10-australian-movies/news-story/6cea6697be2be394b3389205b272625b Peter K Burian (talk) 15:30, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Australia is clearly the principal producing country. There seems to be sufficient Uk involvement to support an Australian-British description. The American company is the distributor which I don't think makes the actual product 'American' in any way, despite their having decisions about how it was distributed and marketed after its having been produced as a finished film?

 Young Saroo played by Sunny Pawar deserves to be mentioned as a critical contributor to this story.  His performance has the depth of a seasoned actor.  He requires almost no dialogue to convey his thoughts.  Anyway, in my opinion he is the backbone in developing the Saroo character.  His performance carries the first half of the movie plus flashbacks in the second half.  Although the Older Saroo played by Patel had a good performance, the audience continuously has the Young Saroo's image in mind throughout the movie.  Perhaps Hollywood's Academy Board identified Young Saroo as the Lead Actor which explains why the Older Saroo played by Patel was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category.  

I agree Pawar turned in an outstanding performance, and if we can find authoritative commentary along those lines it would definitely merit including within the reception section of the article, as a quote and citation. Pawar is already listed within the cast list - he wasn't billed as a star of the film and therefore WP can't make him one in our own listing. MapReader (talk) 06:23, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Since the TIFF was in September, the premiere date in October semms to be wrong. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Toronto_International_Film_Festival — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.149.169.160 (talk) 23:16, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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