Guyanese filmmaker Shundell Prasad’s first feature film Festival of Lights premiered this month in the US, with screenings in Atlanta on November 2, New York and Los Angeles on November 9 and with an upcoming screening in Detroit on November 29.
According to a synopsis, Festival of Lights tells the story of Reshma (Melinda Shankar) who leaves Guyana when still a child with her mother (Ritu Singh Pande) for New York.