Film Independent Spotlight Programming

Global Media Makers: The New Wave of South Asian Cinema
Sunday, October 20 – 3:00 pm
MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson Auditorium

The event will begin with a conversation with filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, covering how his robust career has helped ignite a new wave of South Asian cinema.

A screening of award-winning short films by 2019 Global Media Makers Fellows will follow the conversation, including a Q&A with the filmmakers from the following shorts: Bebaak (dir. Shazia Iqbal, India); Jaalgedi (dir. Rajesh Prasad Khatri, prod. Min Bahadur Bham, Nepal); Proof (dir. Nishtha Jain, India) and Roqaia (dir. Diana Saqib Jamal, Afghanistan; prod. Arifur Rahman, Bangladesh).

Global Media Makers is an innovative mentoring initiative and cultural exchange program designed to foster relationships between American and international filmmakers. The program is supported by a partnership with Film Independent and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Tickets are available now to Film Independent Members and the general public.
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Anurag Kashyap, prolific and celebrated global auteur, has directed, produced and co-produced more than 50 films, including his classic two-part crime drama, Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) that premiered at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes and made it to the Guardian’s 100 Best Films of the 21st Century list. Kashyap is director and producer of the 2019 International Emmy Award-nominated series Sacred Games.

Kashyap has garnered accolades from the National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards and in 2013, the government of France awarded him with Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters). Kashyap co-produced the critically acclaimed drama The Lunchbox (2013) and was nominated at the BAFTA Awards in the Best Film Not in the English Language category.

Apart from filmmaking, Kashyap serves on the board of Mumbai based NGO, Aangan Trust, which protects vulnerable children throughout India. He was the founder of two film production companies, Anurag Kashyap Films and Phantom Films, and he recently co-founded a new production company, Good Bad Films, with Dhruv Jagasia & Akshay Thakkar. Kashyap has served on multiple film competition juries including the Sundance Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival and the Marrakech International Film Festival.