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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).
Tickets are available now to Film Independent Members and the general public.
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Proof – dir. Nishtha Jain, India
Amandeep will never forget his time as a junior gynecologist in a government hospital in Delhi. He was conscientious, which rendered him unfit for the system in the “women’s ward.”
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.