Aruna Vasudev, Founder & President Emeritus of NETPAC

System Administrator Thursday September 5, 2024

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the death of Dr Aruna Vasudev, early on the morning of September 5th 2024.

Founder and President Emeritus of NETPAC, the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema and widely referred to as "the mother of Asian Cinema.”

She was prominent as an author, scholar, programmer, filmcritic, cinema activist and founder of Cinemaya: The Asian Film Quarterly and Cinefan Film Festival. She was also a painter.

Farewell Aruna, you will be deeply missed by the NETPAC family.

 

Here is the trailer to the 2021 documentary by Director Supriya Suri 

  

 

Dr. Aruna Vasudev | source: Delhi Art Diaries
Dr. Aruna Vasudev | source: Delhi Art Diaries

 

 

 

Aruna Smiling  

 

 

 

 

 


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