50 films
will participate at fourth 2007 South Asian International Film
Festival-
from October 3-9 at New York
New York, Oct. 01, 2007,
Surinder Bhatt/ LA- Gary Singh
The 2007 South Asian International Film Festival will be held
from October 3-9, 2007 in New York City and the festival will
open with NRI Manish Acharya’s LOINS
OF PUNJAB PRESENTS at Loews Cineplex in Lincoln Square on
October 3, 2007. (1998 Broadway at 67th Street) Show Time: 8:15pm
- 9:45pm
According to the press released by Director, Nilam Agrawal- Walking
the red carpet will be the full cast and crew including, Shabana
Azmi and Ajay Naidu. A film set over three days, in Edison, New
Jersey, where five Indian- Americans and one Jewish Indophile
participate in the first DESI IDOL, a Bollywood-style singing
contest sponsored by a pork millionaire. For seventy-two hours,
armed with a song, these sevenstrangers are going to war.
“We are excited to kick off the week long event with such
an entertaining film that our audience will really enjoy and relate
to,” said Manjri Srivastava, SAIFF’s Festival Director.
“ It is SAIFF’s continuing mission to discover and
promote up and coming independent South Asian filmmakers and we
believe Writer-Director Manish Acharya is one to watch in the
future.”
The South Asian International Film Festival is a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to supporting emerging and established
artists from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
With a focus on dynamic, visionary independent cinema, SAIFF aims
to bring communities together to support these artists and unite
in celebration of a common spirit.
Some notables films and documentaries among the 50 films
being screened at the festival are:
On October 5, 2007, KYA TUM HO?; OUTSOURCED; Thursday
Night After-Party: PINK ELEPHANT; MASSOUD: Destiny's Afghan; KYA
KHOOB ASTI AFGHANISTAN? ; DIPLOMA; THE NIGHT WRITER; EMERGING
FILMMAKERS SERIES; A TASTE OF LIBERATION; THE SARI (W)RAP; ME,
MASI & MR.CLEAN; CHASING SALMAN ; REVENGE OF THE DESIS; NABARSIYEKO
JHARI ; CHILDREN'S AFTERNOON; KRISHNA - ANIMATED SERIES; GIRL
STARS; MILK & OPIUM; DHEEVARI; NOT IN GOD'S NAME; FALTU; Sunday
Night After-Party: THE PLUMM; PAKISTAN ZINDABAD; ATHEETHAM (Beyond
the Mind); DOCUMENTARY SERIES 6; THE AYUBOWAN WOMEN'S PROJECT;
CREATING UTSAVA; DANCING KATHMANDU; RIVAAZ; DOCUMENTARY SERIES
7; OFFICE TIGERS; Monday Night After-Party: ASPEN; A DREAM IN
DOUBT
On October 9, 2007, the festival will close with Bhavna
Talwar’s directorial debut "DHARM"at
Loews Cineplex in Lincoln, 2007. Set in the oldest and holiest
city of India, Varanasi, Pundit Ram Narayan Chaturvedi is a Hindu
Brahmin priest who lives by his belief in the 'true Hindu way
of life'. One day an abandoned infant comes into the Priest’s
life and home. He adopts the child and through the years the child
fills the Priest’s life with joy and laughter until the
day he learns that child is a Muslim. Can this four-yearold child
challenge four thousand years of religion? DHARM - CLOSING NIGHT
PRESENTATION at Clearview Cinema (1871 Broadway at 62nd St) Show
Time: 7:30pm - 9:15pm
