From the streets of India to the Oscars Red Carpet. “We’re collectively amazed,” he says during the E! red carpet show. “We never thought something like this would ever come around, so we’re just over ...

“Lion” is up for six Academy Awards, including nominations for best picture, adapted screenplay and supporting actor for stars Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. But the film wouldn’t have existed without ...

An Australian director known for Top Of The Lake, Garth Davis has made an impression this season with The Weinstein Company’s Lion, his feature film debut. Based on Saroo Brierley’s incredible true ...

Saroo Brierley is a 36-year-old man with a powerful story of loss and love. As a 5-year-old child in India, he became impossibly lost in Calcutta, a sprawling, chaotic city of 14 million people. He ...

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The producers of "The Kings Speech" are planning a feature based on Brierley's autobiography, which tells how he used Google Earth and childhood memories to find his Indian birth mother after a ...

Since establishing their UK-Australian production banner See-Saw Films in 2008, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman have had a career trajectory that most young independent producers can only dream of.

LOS ANGELES — The inspiring Lion requires two actors to tell the incredible true story of Saroo Brierley. Hindi-speaking Sunny Pawar, 8, makes his screen debut in the drama (in theaters Friday in New ...

The story of Saroo Brierley, told in his 2013 memoir “A Long Way Home” and in the new film “Lion,” is hard to believe. In 1986, finding himself separated from his older brother – after they had ...

Every once in awhile, a story comes along that seems too remarkable to be true, the sort of miraculous sequence of events that would once have been ready fodder for Oprah Winfrey in her talk show days ...

A 5-year-old Indian boy who finds himself on an accidental quest across the world, and the trip home he makes 25 years later, give the touching drama Lion its hopeful spirit and affecting sensibility.