A FARTOWN film maker has won a £35,000 Lottery award.
Gopal Dutta, who has already had documentary work about Huddersfield's Sikh community shown on Channel 4, has received the start-up cash from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.
Cambridge university graduate Gopal, 25, and his business partner Nav Kandola, want to establish a new broadband youth TV channel tailored to the young Asian market.
The channel will be in contrast to existing satellite programming targeting the older Asian audience.
A 30-minute film by Gopal was shown in Huddersfield at the town's UCI cinema last November.
His work Scream for the Banshee was shown at the Local Films by Local People event.
The film was created using Beaumont Street Studios (BSS), a non-profit media training organisation. It tells the story of a young man with a twisted morality who tries to find self-fulfilment by killing bad people.
Nesta invests in innovators and was set up in 1998 with a £200m endowment from the National Lottery.
