Here’s a quick look at last night’s red carpet at the 13th New York Indian Film Festival: Some films are already sold out, so if you’re thinking of going to this year’s festival, it’s time to get moving…
Category: Festival
NYIFF Begins Tonight
Today’s the day when the Indo-American Arts Council‘s 13th New York Indian Film Festival opens. The yearly event, which has grown from strength to strength, looks to have a really interesting and diverse line-up of Indian and Indian-American stories. Here’s a trailer for the festival. Some films that I’ve already got my eye on are […]
At this year’s Imagine Science Film Festival
Some South Asian and Irish connections at this year’s Imagine Science Film Festival in NYC: Visions by Justin Singh Restoring Sight in Bangladesh by Tatiana McCabe Creature Cast: Lancet Liver Fluke by Pathikrit Bhattacharyya And from Ireland, Darragh O’ Connell’s 23 degrees, 5 minutes More details about the festival can be found here.
Zoya Akhtar: Male stars drive audiences in
On the occasion of her return to New York this weekend for the two-day Ticket 2 Bollywood event of panels and sessions (together with Imtiaz Ali and Madhur Bhandarkar), here’s an interview I did with Zoya when she was in New York to attend the Engendered Film Festival in August 2009. This was right on […]
Wasseypur Comes to Greenwich Village
In less than two hours, the closing night film of the 2012 New York Indian Film Festival will hit the screen at NYU’s Skirball Center, bringing Gangs of Wasseypur and its director, Anurag Kashyap, fresh from having been selected to be part of the Directors Quinzaine in Cannes to Greenwich Village. Great ending to the […]
NY Indian Film Festival: A Boon for Tamil Film Fans
If you love Tamil movies, but you don’t often get to enjoy them on a big screen in the NYC metro area, then today is your day. The Indo-American Arts Council‘s 2012 New York Indian Film Festival – which already ran Aadukalam and Azhagarsamy’s Horse yesterday – is showing quite a selection this afternoon. At […]