Iconic filmy dialogues pepper the mundane minutiae of our everyday lives with some much-needed punch and melodrama. What would Bollywood be without these dialogues, timed so perfectly that the audience[…]
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3rd i Film Festival Shares ‘Bad, Brown, Bride’ Trio of Desi Short Stories
The 3rd I International South Asian Film Festival is back this year with dates in San Francisco (Nov. 9-11) and Palo Alto (Nov. 18). Visit https://www.thirdi.org/ for the full schedule and[…]
The Tiger Hunter Shares An Immigrant Underdog’s Comedic Quest To Be A “Professional American”
Interested in bringing a screening of The Tiger Hunter to your city? Sign up at https://www.thetigerhunter.com/screenings, and reserve your tickets. *** It’s 1979 in small-town India, and Sami Malik has[…]
Fawzia Mirza & Shabana Azmi Star in Chicago Love Story Signature Move
After premiering at SXSW 2017 and winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at Outfest Los Angeles, the independent film Signature Move is screening now in Chicago[…]
Mixed-Remixed, Identity & Smoke that Travels
Some background information: I am mixed. Or variously: biracial, multi-ethnic, Eurasian. Less kindly by a classmate in middle school: mutt. The mechanics: my dad is from the South Indian state of[…]
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Hena Ashraf’s Short Film Takes A Fun Swipe at Tinder Date Selfies
Shot on the UCLA campus where Hena Ashraf is pursuing her MFA in film directing, short film Selfie Trash offers an amusing and critical look at the nearly inescapable smartphone self-portrait. Ashraf’s previous[…]
Gene Wilder: The Comic Bond Between A Father & Son
“Kings will be crowned, and the word goes around, From father to son, to son” — Queen I met Gene Wilder in 2010 during a book festival at the Marcus Jewish[…]
Daughters of Destiny: Education, Caste, & Gender Struggles In India
In early August, Netflix put out a four-part documentary by Oscar-winning director Vanessa Roth called Daughters of Destiny, about Shanti Bhavan (in Hindi: “haven of peace”), a residential school in Tamil Nadu[…]
The Big Sick & Brown Romance In Pop Culture Narratives
In the past few years, we have finally seen an uptick in the personal narratives of Brown-American men on the big screen. No longer limited to the sidekick, we finally[…]