05.10.12
INDIAN SUMMER is a short documentary about a group of Indian American kids during their two-week camp session at the Hindu Heritage Summer Camp in Rochester, NY. Click here for more info, and to see a trailer.
Premieres at the New York Indian Film Festival- May 24th, 2012 – check here for tickets!
11.22.11
HIMALAYA SONG is a musically infused multimedia performance that explores this majestic mountain range and its interconnecting cultures as the region undergoes major environmental and ecological change. Featuring live narration (by me!) and musical performances by musicians Gingger Shankar (vocals/double violin) and Dave Liang (piano/electronics).
Premieres at the Sundance Film Festival- Jan 19-29th, 2012 – check here for exact dates / tickets!
Come say hello to us at Sundance and we’ll give you a free box of hand picked Himalayan tea courtesy of Rare Tea Republic - receive free shipping when you order tea from them by entering the code SONG at checkout.
10.11.11
WOMEN, WAR & PEACE is a bold new five-part PBS television series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain.
I served as Coordinating Producer / Post – Production Supervisor for the series, which premieres Tuesday nights from Oct. 11 to Nov. 8, 2011. Check your local listings for air times, and click here to watch the trailer.
03.19.11
Tribeca Film Institute has announced a 10K grant and a creative mentorship to develop my screenplay THE TENNIS PARTNER, based on the best selling novel by Abraham Verghese. It’s part of the 8th Annual Tribeca All Access Program during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Can I say Tribeca one more time?
Tribeca.
07.01.10
THE CANAL STREET MADAM premiered at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX in March. It’s been traveling the festival circuit (with many sold out screenings) at Hot Docs in Toronto, BAM CinemaFEST in Brooklyn, and at the Provincetown Film Festival.
09.08.09
For the past 2 years, I’ve been a research fellow working as the director of the documentary ethics project at the Center for Social Media at American University. We interviewed 45 documentary filmmakers about ethical decisions they have made in their work. You can download a copy of our report, “Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work”, which I co-wrote with Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi. And if you’re going to the Toronto International Film Festival, you’re welcome to attend the Documentary Ethics Report panel on Sunday, Sep. 13, 2009, where we’ll be discussing the report with leading filmmakers and distributors.
04.02.09
I will be at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival April 2-5. Cameron Yates & I are presenting a preview of our new doc THE CANAL STREET MADAM as part of the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant.
02.26.09
My Curatorial Debut in Toronto!
I’ll be guest curating
MONITOR 5: New South Asian Film & Video
… an experimental short film and video-screening program that showcases new and innovative works by artists of South Asian origin, presented by
SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre).
11.05.08
Our dysfunctional comedy/drama= dramedy POUNDCAKE premieres at the AFI Film Festival in LA.
Update Nov/2009: It’s gone on to win 6 Festival Awards:
3 Best Film Awards ( Nashville FF/Honorable Mention, Buffalo Niagara FF, Rome Internat’l FF)
2 Audience Awards for Best Film (Florida FF, Rome Internat’l FF)
1 Best Original Screenplay Award (Florida FF Special Jury Prize)
