Bollywood superstar Anil Kapoor will share the stage in london with the former British prime minister Tony Blair.
Anil, star of Slumdog Millionaire and TV series 24, will be on the jury for the Faith Shorts - a global film competition held by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation providing young people with an opportunity to express their faith through films. The competition will culminate on July 22 at a star-studded award ceremony at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) hosted by Adrian Chiles.
The films deal with issues such as family, loss, overcoming adversity, personal devotion and hope. The films range from an Indian pupil presenting a challlenge to the viewer on child poverty in the slums of Delhi, to young Bosnisns of different faiths, offering a vision peace and tolerance set against the divisions that their community experienced.
Entries have been shortlisted from around the world including India, Egypt, Argentina, Pakistan, UK, New Zealand, Singapore of every background with no access to written pitches. And the Tony Blair Foundation sent flip cameras to the best 50 entries in these countries to ensure that every youngster could bring his/her idea to life.
These stories have impressed the global judging panel, which includes Tony Blair, Jonathan Caplan QC, Hugh Jackman, Anil Kapoor, Amr Khaled, Jet Li, Kishore Lulla, Wendi Murdoch, Natalie Portman, Nik Powell, Queen Rania of Jordan, Rabbi David Rosen, June Sarpong, Deepak Verma and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation Fellows.
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