07.07.10
INDIA IN AMERICA: A TRILOGY is fundraising!
INDIAN SUMMER is the first of the trilogy. It follows a group of Indian American kids during the two-week camp session at the Hindu Heritage Summer Camp located twenty minutes outside of Rochester, NY. Click here for more info, to see a short trailer, and to make your 100% tax-deductible contribution.
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)
