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The FIIG Film Festival ends tomorrow May 2, 2025. Register here to view any or all of these 9 fantastic films for FREE.
Then join us this Saturday 3rd May for any or all of the three panel discussions with the filmmakers happening throughout the day. I’ll be moderating one of them (Resistance) along with my colleagues Dr. Harjant Gill (Community) and Dr. Abhijeet Paul (Self-Discovery). Register here for the panels.
It’s Seabiscuit meets RRR, your classic boy-in-love-with-horse-meets-freedom-fighters movie. Check out our review of Azaad, streaming now on Netflix.
One day a stablehand messes with the daughter of the zamindar, the local landowner, and is forced to run away. He runs into some rebels who are trying to take down the zamindar and the British rule…I loved the historical elements. This is not a documentary, but it touches on real life things that were happening at that time.
Attention, people of Earth: the FIIG Film Festival launched yesterday. The nine outstanding films by award-winning Fulbright alums will be available for viewing online through May 2, 2025.
Access to view them is FREE but you must register to get the password at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18NbITo8lL3h6S4uuN_86IY8shWjvT7UNUKkKom2LK30/viewform?edit_requested=true .
To join us on May 3 for panel discussions with the filmmakers, register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/eN6KgrhDSpCH0j6vdaV3lg#/registration . I was one of the curators of the nine films and will be hosting one of the panel discussions along with my esteemed colleagues.
Hope to see you there!
What a great experience serving on the advisory committee for the CFCCF 2025 Film Festival, and addressing the audience and filmmakers in such great company today, including filmmaker Debasish Sen Sharma, Lapaataa Ladies writer Biplab Goswami, performance artist and storyteller Dr. Janardan Ghosh and UEM Chancellor Prof Dr. Satyajit Chakrabarti.
Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding short films.
Cannes Film and Content Creators Festival & Award ceremony.
I had an absolute blast last week as a Legacy Fulbright Ambassador giving a Fulbright Talk to faculty and international education administrators at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, telling them about my own experiences and urging them to apply. You too, US faculty and admins! Applications for the ’26-’27 cycle are available.
Many thanks to Director of the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research Dana Whitco and Administrator Kristel Baldoz, and Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing Chair Joe Vinciguerra for arranging it.