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...
