Q&A With ‘Life After’ Director Ria Tobaccowala
Life After is a short film that will be screening at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival. The festival dates are Sept. 20-23. Synopsis: Life After is a story about[…]
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Q&A With Makers of ‘Raksha’ — a Short Film on Dealing with a Cursed Horoscope
Raksha is a short film that will be screening at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival. The festival dates are Sept. 20-23. Synopsis: “At a young age, Archana, is told[…]
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Revisiting ‘Dil Se..’ 20 Years Later: A Film About a Different Side of Love
Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen this classic film yet, please note that this post shares details of the plot, including the conclusion. Growing up in the ’90s watching Bollywood[…]
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Q&A With Hip-Hop & Hollywood Star Utkarsh Ambudkar
You may know multidisciplinary artist Utkarsh Ambudkar from his role as Mindy’s aspiring rapper brother Rishi on The Mindy Project, or perhaps from Pitch Perfect as Donald the beatboxing champion.[…]
Review: The Good, The Bad, & The WTF! of Biopic ‘Sanju’
A few years ago, Maanayata Dutt, Hindi film actor Sanjay Dutt’s wife, asked popular filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani to consider making a movie about the controversial star. Dutt’s life truly has[…]
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Frameline Film Fest Features Desi-led Queer Shorts
In honor of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan that represented a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States, we celebrate Pride Month every year in[…]
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Feel-Good Film ‘Breaking the Bee’ Explores How Indian-American Kids Have Become Spelling Champs
“The way to win the bee is simply 90 percent hard work, 10 percent other.” That recipe for spelling bee success is from Akash Vukoti, who at age 6 was[…]
‘Do We Belong?’ Shares Sunayana Dumala’s Story of Hate, Murder & Activism
In a short film from Capital K Pictures, Sunayana Dumala shares the story of hate and murder that took her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s life last year on February 22, 2017,[…]
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Thoughts on the Sunken Place, Wakanda, & the Model Minority Myth
I sometimes wish I could go back in time and be my own guardian angel. I would reach down into that dark place of the Model Minority Myth and pull[…]
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Harleen Singh’s ‘Drawn Together’ Highlights Comic Artists Fighting Racism
This year’s CAAMFest in San Francisco and Oakland — the Center for Asian American Media’s celebration of film, music and food — boasts an incredible lineup of Asian American and[…]