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| India and USA Cultural Relations Through ICMEI |
New Delhi: “I had been lucky to be in the invitee list of Bill Clinton then the President of USA for the get together at Hotel Maurya Sheraton organized during his visit to New Delhi, Republic of India. It was also great to receive the first lady of USA Mrs Laura Bush at Noida Film City which she planned during the official visit of President George Bush to India,” said Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios & founder of Noida Film City while talking about cultural relations between India and USA.
Sandeep Marwah with seven World records to his credit is a well-travelled and internationally acclaimed media person. He has been a case study with University of California Los Angles and Virginia University at Virginia. He has been honored with honorary Doctorate from George Washington University of Peace Washington and Kings University Honolulu.
Sandeep Marwah through his institutions AAFT- Asian Academy of Film And Television, ASMS- Asian School of Media Studies and ABS- Asian Business School join hands with University of Southern California, New York University and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for development and promotion of different courses. Dr. Sandeep Marwah is also associated with New York Film Academy and Academy of Arts University of USA in education expansion.
Dr. Sandeep Marwah has been honoured by Tisch School of Arts as Father of Cellphone Cinema as he has been in mobile films from last fourteen years and made his first film with Karl Bardosh of Kanbar Institute of Film & Television of New York University, in Noida and New York. He is the first one to start festival of cellphone cinema.
Sandeep Marwah is also associated with the short film Smile Pinky which received Oscar during 81st Academy Award Function at Kodak Theater in Los Angles. The graphics and animations were handled by Marwah Studios.
Marwah Studios probably is the only organization from India which participated with National Center for Atmospheric Research invited by NASA, USA and associated with Scientific Academic Research Foundation headquarters in New York.
Dr. Sandeep Marwah also visited USA to research on tourism and was -representing a very powerful organization National Federation of Tourism And Transport Cooperatives of India Limited. Dr. Marwah was not only part of case studies but he is also the part of two very popular books published and printed in USA namely The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Digital Video and Thinking Through Digital Media-Transnational Environments.
On one side Dr. Marwah was honoured along with super stars of Hollywood like Salma Hayek, Lucy Liu, Samuel Jackson at Cairo International Film Festival and on the other hand he invited Hollywood stars like Michel J Fox, Jean Marie Lomour, Director Jeno Hodi, Terry Macluhan, producer Director Andrew G Vagina to his studios.
Series of important dignities have visited Marwah Studios and AAFT representing films, television, art, culture, education and associated fields.
Recently India US friendship came into lime light when Charles Duke, tenth Man on the Moon from Apollo 16 addressed the students of AAFT and two million people were involved with the talk show.
It was another major development in the relation between India and USA when Philip Kotler father of Marketing addressed the students of Asian Business School. AAFT has joined hands with Epic Bibble College and presented life membership of World Peace Development And Research Foundation.
Sandeep Marwah was again part of the research program of Swapnil Rai from Moody College of Communication University of Texas at Austin. Phyllis M Wise Chancellor of University of Illions, Rodervick Harding of National Louis University are now part of Asian Education Group.
Film maker Paco Wiser, Gabrielle Kelly, Tom Shepard, Sadia Shepard, Mike Berry, David Forlders, Narender Karri, Judy Kaplan and the team members of feature film ‘Beyond The Soul’ Hollywood cinema visited Marwah Studios.
Sergio Menezes- sports person, Alferd G Schweppe- Lawyer, Raj Pillai- Medical Doctor, Sharon Lowen- Classical Dancer, Randall Feldman- Journalist, Evander Holyfield- Boxer, Stephanie Ellen Almeida- Miss USA, Steve Bedi -writer, Geeta Kapoor- Singer, Neena Singh- Hotelier, Angeli Monet- Social worker, Kiran Bhat- writer and Linday Kirlay singer from USA are associated with Marwah Studios in one way or other.
