Cinema Is Everywhere

“Cinema Is Everywhere”

by Teal Greyhavens

The story of the art that defies our differences.

Feature film documentary.
featuring Javed Akhtar, Shyam Benegal, Fruit Chan, Mark Cousins, Stanley Kwan, Sudhir Mishra, and Tilda Swinton

“Cinema Is Everywhere” is a documentary feature film that ties four narratives—from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia—together with countless insights from venerable filmmakers and ordinary moviegoers. An aspiring actress in Mumbai battles to break into Bollywood; two friends in Scotland take a mobile film festival across the highlands; a young crew in Hong Kong embarks on the shooting of their first film; a daring Tunisian director anxiously anticipates the premiere of his controversial film at a major festival. These stories are woven together with scenes from video stores, projection booths, studios, cinemas, and slums into a vivid meditation on the power of cinema to shape our world.