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LOS ANGELES: The 6th Annual Riverside International Film Festival 2008, Riverside, CA ended its 10 day run on Sunday April 20 with the screening of "Kadachit", a psychological drama that questions the validity of human perception; starring Ashvini Bhave, Sachin Khedekar and directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni.

Producer and lead actress, Ashvini Bhave was available for a question and answer session immediately following the showing of the film. Ashvini Bhave is an Indian actress from Maharashtra. She is a versatile actress and has been a lead as well as a character actress. Her career spanned from the mid-eighties to 1998.

She has worked in many Marathi and Hindi films. After getting married to a software engineer Kishore Bopadikar, she relocated to San Francisco, USA, where she currently lives with her two children. She is a graduate from Academy of Art University film school in San Francisco. After a 10-year hiatus from the silver screen, Bhave returns in 'Kadachit', in the lead role.

The movie has earned rave reviews for it's story and the stunning performance of Ashvini and the other actors. The closing night film was followed by Award Reception held at the 'Citrus City Grill' at the Riverside Plaza; the event was attended by a large number of Moviegoers, Film makers, Directors, Sponsors, City officials and RIFF members; the event was an exceptional cinematic after party with free-flowing food and drink and dancing.

Kishori Reddy, Vice President for RIFF said she and the RIFF organizers (Dr Dhillon, President and Nancy Douglas, Programer) were very pleased with the event, screening over 90 films; shorts, features and documentaries, twice the number of films from last year and from about 22 countries.

She adds we have new sponsors this year, Riverside Plaza, Regal Cinemas and repeating sponsors who stepped up this year; the Riverside Arts Council co sponsored the 'Closing Award's Night' and Riverside Human Relations Commission sponsored Thursday Night and presented "Passing Poston:

An American Story" she adds. Kishori Reddy also serves on the Board of Riverside International Council and is a leading member of Hyderabad (India) Sister City committee to help develop greater relationship between the two cities.

Kishori resides in Riverside with her husband K Basi Reddy, CEO of 'Digiquest Studio'. DigiQuest Studio is committed to promoting independent digital filmmaking around the world.

As part of this effort, for the third consecutive year, DigiQuest Studio is offering a competitive award for a first-rate independent film (feature/ short/ documentary) that is selected by DigiQuest Jury.