Odisha-born producer’s film at Palm Springs International Film Festival

Odisha-born producer and promoter Jitendra Mishra’s latest feature film ‘The Last Color’ starring veteran actress Neena Gupta had its world premiere at the prestigious 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019 recently.

The film was screened twice; on 4th & 5th January 2019, at Regal Cinema & Mary Pickford D’place, Palm Springs with hall packed audience & standing ovation. The film, which also marks Celebrity Chef Vikas Khanna’s debut as a Director and screenwriter is based on his bestselling book by the same name.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival is one of the largest film festivals in the world, welcoming over 135,000 attendees each year for its line-up of new and celebrated international features and documentaries.

This year the festival was studded with Hollywood starts like Jim Carrey, Bradley Cooper (A star is born), Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), Glen Close, Alfonso Cuaron (Roma), Melissa McCarthy, Rami Malek , Emma Stone and many others. The festival opened with multiple Oscars & Golden globe nominated Kenneth Branagh’s “All is true” and the closing night film was Oscar-nominated writer/director Bruce Beresford’s “Ladies in Black”.

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