Angad Paul

NEW DELHI : Industrialist and filmmaker Angad Paul’s non-conventional thriller ‘EMR’ won the jury prize for the ‘Best U.K. Feature’ at the 12th London Raindance Film Festival on Oct. 13. Paul, 34-year-old NRI chief executive of the Caparo Group founded by his father Lord Swraj Paul, is the executive producer of ‘EMR.’ The film revolves around a conspiracy theorist Adam Jones. Stuck in a dead end job, living alone and Internet-addicted, Jones is certain that ‘they’ are after him. Taking an experimental drug for his epilepsy, Jones begins suffering from blackouts, seizures and terrifying visions. But when he wakes up in a hotel room in Mexico minus a kidney, Jones is convinced more than ever that he is being manipulated by outside forces. With his reality becoming more and more fractured, and unable to trust anyone — let alone himself — Jones moves ever closer to tracking down his tormentors and uncovering the truth about the mysterious drug company Pfenal.

Directed by Emmy-Nominated James Erskine and Danny McCullough, ‘EMR’ stars Adam Leese, Whitney Cummings and Jemma Walker.

Other films which were in competition in this category were Olivier Assyas’s ‘Clean’ starring Nick Nolte, Beatrice Dalle and Maggie Cheung, along with the BBC’s Scotland film ‘Blinded,’ starring Phyllida Law and Peter Mullan; and award-winning director Richard Jobson’s ‘The Purifiers.’

The jury included actors Jonny Lee Miller and Anna Friel, head of Miramax Europe, Colin Vaines, and the chief film critic of London’s Time Out magazine David Calhoun. (Compiled from news dispatches)