Avie Luthra

Avie Luthra has directed a number of award winning short films over the last ten years. He also works as a writer and won BBC’s Dennis Potter Award in 2001 and Channel 4’s Northern Soul Award in 2000.

Avie graduated from the NFTS Fiction Direction course in 2001, and joined the Project Development Labs Advanced Programme at the School, during which time he developed the script for his award winning film Lucky, released in 2005.

His writing credits have included an episode for the high profile BBC series, The Canterbury Tales (2003) and a BBC film, Indian Dream (2003).

In 2004 Avie Luthra was listed as a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ by Screen International magazine and has recently directed films for Granada and the BBC. He has also just completed a feature film screenplay based on his Radio 4 play, A- (2004).