How fortunate we are in NYC to have access to so many cultural events, and even more fortunate for an opportunity to interact with established and up-and-coming filmmakers at events like the MIAAC. Yesterday at the MIAAC film festival, there were two panels running side-by-side, one with Mira Nair, examining her not-often-seen short films, and […]

A few photos from the red carpet at the Paris theater:

Folks, if you weren’t there, you missed a gem of a festival this weekend.   Try to catch it next year. Here are a few pix from the final evening, a screening of Luck by Chance, followed by a discussion with Zoya and Farhan Akhtar:

Here are a couple of images from Saturday’s Engendered film festival in New York. The rubric that day was exploring queer sexuality and identity, and included the Hindi blockbuster Dostana, as well as shorts and indie flics like Mehreen Jabbar’s Beauty Parlor, Poppy Stockell’s Searching for Sandeep and Parvez Sharma’s Jihad for Love (to name […]

The movies run Saturday and Sunday, but this evening was the red carpet walk and a panel discussion.   A few pics are below.   The big B’wood films being shown are Dostana and Luck by Chance, alongside some wonderful documentaries and shorts like Jihad for Love and Two Men in a Shoulder Stand, among […]