Terrie Samundra is a 2010 IFFLA Audience Choice Award Winner for her short “Kunjo”: South Asians come in all shapes and sizes. We live in all sorts of places strewn across the globe. Some talk with a Southern drawl, some like California Valley girls (me). Queer,punk, black metal, potters, painters, plumbers. It’s true. we’re...
Our next Filmmaker diary comes from this year’s sole Pakistani filmmaker Iram Parveen Bilal, director of the short film POSHAK and the upcoming feature JOSH. The first time I attended IFFLA in 2004, I had made an improbable escape from my dreary problem set at Caltech to watch Khamosh Pani. I was a dissatisfied engineering student...
Our Second Entry from the TROUBLEMAKER team, star Pranidhi Varshney: IFFLA to me was about community. A community of desis and desi supporters coming together to create, connect, and celebrate. The impact of South Asians around the world is undeniable, yet many people are unaware of our artistic traditions and the complexities that lie beneath the surface...
As we set our sights on our 10th anniversary festival in 2012, we’ll be taking a look inside IFFLA and what it means to the creative community through first person entries penned by our wonderful crop of IFFLA Alumni. Our first entry is by the director of TROUBLEMAKER, Geeta Malik. Another year, another amazing...
