Engendered Presents I View Film Festival 2010

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Parent Category: Film Festivals

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Published on Wednesday, 03 November 2010 20:13

Written by Brad Balfour

The transnational arts and human rights organization, Engendered, presents I View Film Festival 2010 from September 18th-26th, 2010, at NYC's Asia Society and the Tribeca Film Center. This cutting-edge cinematic and entertainment extravaganza -- now in its third year -- brings together contemporary South Asia’s most vital voices in film so that they can be viewed through a new lens. Over 25 features and documentaries provide a dynamic selection from the entire spectrum of South-Asian cinema including art-house/independent, mainstream Bollywood, under-the-radar docs, classics, experimental, avant-garde and festival favorites. 

Screenings are followed by discussions and panels with key cast members, film personalities, and academics to offer a critical dialogue about issues integral to the festival.

Says Festival director Myna Mukherjee, “Cinema remains one of the most effective and powerful ways to change societies like ours that are still fraught with silences around issues of gender, sexual and human rights. We are thrilled to have so many voices joining us to amplify our mission of using the popular to blow up the marginal."

Based in New York, Engendered produces an annual four-part festival that brings together the best in contemporary South Asian performance, music, visual arts, and cinema. Both a political and aesthetic festival, Engendered uses the medium of arts and culture to create change and promote social justice by initiating public dialogue around women’s issues, gender inequity, sexual orientation, and minority and health rights. This organization focuses on presenting a body of bold and contemporary cinematic work through which to view South Asian cinema -- the many issues that are both infused in the film's and the organization's mission.

Partially supported by the United Nations Development Program, award-winning Indian director Onir's film I Am opens the festival and makes its North-American Premiere. Other  festival highlights include a special NY Premiere of the critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival screened documentary, Bhutto, and the North American premiere of Just Another Love Story, a Berlin Film Festival favorite..

Adds Mukherjee, "Together we hope, the film-makers and their work will show the stunning breadth and capacity of the Film Industry, burst open new spaces for dialog, and sustain critical South Asian Cinema.”


For more information about the film lineup and ticket information, please go to: www.engendered.org/iviewfilm.html


I View Film Festival 2010
September 18th-26th, 2010

Asia Society

The Tribeca Film Center

 

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