3rd i co-presents at SFIFF
2013-05-02 - 2013-05-09 | Various
Salma
Directed by Kim Longinotto
Veteran British documentarian Kim Longinotto’s latest work is the remarkable story of Salma, a South Indian Muslim woman who endured a 25-year imprisonment and forced marriage by her own family and in-laws before embarking on a political career and national renown as the most famous female poet in the Tamil language. (England/India, 2013, 90 min)
When/Where
Thursday, May 2, 6:15 PM – Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
Saturday, May 4, 2:00 PM – Pacific Film Archive
Sunday, May 5, 3:45 PM – New People Cinema

The Last Step
Directed by Ali Mosaffa
A Tehran engineer who’s mysteriously died, his actress wife (Leila Hatami of A Separation) and their physician friend form an ambiguous triangle in actor/director/writer Ali Mosaffa’s fascinating Iranian feature. It’s an enigmatic drama in which time and truth are slippery beasts whose gamesmanship nonetheless never lacks for emotional connection. (Iran 2012, 88 min) New Directors Prize Contender
When/Where
Saturday, May 4, 7:00 PM – New People Cinema
Wednesday, May 8, 6:15 PM – New People Cinema
Thursday, May 9, 1:00 PM – New People Cinema
For more information, visit the SFIFF website.

3rd i presents "From Mutiny to Bengali Harlem: Stories of the Diaspora"
2013-05-17 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New People Cinema, 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, 94115, United States
(aka “Vivek Bald’s Films and Stories”)
Vivek Bald, writer, filmmaker, and MIT professor, reads from his new book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America and presents clips from his work-in-progress, the film In Search of Bengali Harlem, and an excerpt from his rarely seen 2003 documentary Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music, about South Asian youth, music, and anti-racist activism in 1970s-90s Britain.
Vivek Bald in person
San Francisco event
When: Friday, May 17, 7:30 pm
Where: New People Cinema, Japantown
1746 Post St., San Francisco, CA 94115
Cost: $12
Buy tickets online!
The program lasts for 1.5 hours.
More details below.

Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music (dir. Vivek Bald, 2003)
Combining music documentary and social documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian electronic music in 1990s Britain, focusing particularly on the decades of cultural cross-pollination and political struggle that led up to that pivotal decade. Shot independently on digital video between 1996 and 2002, Mutiny features Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, Fun^Da^Mental, Anjali, State of Bengal, and many others, documenting a crucial moment in the cultural and political coming-of-age of Asian Britain.
“Concert footage, TV clips, interviews and more are briskly interwoven into an energetic documentary.” –Variety
“Great fun – a journey through some of the most historic moments of the diasporic musical movement.”
–Gurinder Chadha, Bend It Like Beckham
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
(Harvard University Press, 2013)

In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore, escaping the engine rooms of British steamers to find less brutal work onshore. As factory owners sought their labor and anti-Asian immigration laws closed in around them, these men built clandestine networks that stretched from the northeastern waterfront across the industrial Midwest.
The stories of these early working-class migrants vividly contrast with our typical understanding of immigration. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Black Bottom, Detroit, from West Baltimore to Harlem.

3rd i co-presents at AHSC Cinema Showcase
2013-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Asian Art Museum, Samsung Hall, 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA, United States
3rd i co-presents with CAAM at the 3rd Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) Cinema Showcase.
3rd Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) Cinema Showcase

Date: Saturday, May 18th, 2013
Time: 2 pm to 4 pm
Location: Asian Art Museum, Samsung Hall, 200 Larkin Street
Admission to the museum will be free all day and there is no additional cost to watch the films! Click here for the full schedule of films.

3rd i co-presents "The Island President" at the EPA
2013-05-21 11:30 - 13:00 | EPA, Arizona-California Room, CA, United States
As part of The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency Region 9) Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage employment program, 3rd i co-presents The Island President at the EPA. May 21, 2013.
