“Finding Carlton is at once illuminating and captivating. Through sterling direction and story-telling, the film manages to preserve Indian jazz culture while also informing even the wisest jazz fan about the music’s migration from American to Europe and to India. It’s a story that has escaped most American jazz listeners until now. …. But perhaps most remarkable is how all jazz musicians -.no matter where they reside on the globe -.share the same love and veneration for the music and its originators. In Finding Carlton, you see firsthand how jazz has come to be a transnational language”
– Marc Myers/JazzWax.com

“Kurien has a splendid eye — even though this is his first film — for the little human details that bring both individual characters and a larger world (now, perhaps no longer quite so vibrant) into focus and into our hearts. FINDING CARLTON blossoms with lovely montages of the present and the past, the aural and the visual, the moving and the still. It is respectful but never dull, informative but never preachy or didactic ”
– Michael Steinman – JAZZ LIVES

“I hope you felt the appreciation of people during and after your showing of the film. It was wonderful. I have images still in my mind. I felt closer to India than ever I have felt, that’s important too, that accomplishment”. -Becca Pulliam- WBGO

“It was wonderful to meet you also and your labor of love produced in your film is an important addition to the voice of jazz and the need to demonstrate it’s far-reaching importance that goes beyond an art form and provides relevant messages for our time….
By the way, my 15 year old son Jonathan was engaged by your film…. First suggestion: target the age demographic of 12-22…!!!”
– Judy Roberts

“….and of course the film! I’ve been replaying it in my mind since then and Christine and I keep on talking about it. It is really very strong and the visuals are quite compelling. Some moments are really special such as…. Carlton’s student talking about jazz and gazing out the window…. Carlton playing for two people at the Grand….. my own Home Minister hearing the recording of Micky’s band…. Louiz talking about his current work…. Carlton’s band guys rehearsing… WOW! Great stuff! You really have created a great document of events that will not have eyewitnesses for that much longer.”
– Frank Carlberg – Musician (New York)