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SUMMARY:Big in Bollywood
DESCRIPTION:Watch Trailer\nFunny and irreverent\, Big in Bollywood documents Omi Vaidya’s ascendency from an aspiring Indian American actor in Hollywood to a megastar in far away Bollywood. When 27-year-old American-born Omi\, a struggling actor in L.A. miraculously lands a dream role in the Bollywood film 3 Idiots (2010)\, his curious friends\, armed with cameras\, fly to Mumbai to film and document his big premiere and better understand the world of Bollywood. Within a week of release\, 3 Idiots skyrockets to the top of the box office\, becoming the most successful Indian film of all time. From relative obscurity to the heights of Bollywood stardom\, Omi finds himself in the company of Bollywood stalwarts like Aamir Khan. While Omi deals with the challenges of new found fame and struggles with cultural competency in the strange\, new world that is Bollywood — between language classes\, calls to his wife back in the United States\, a press tour that routinely gathers tens of thousands of people — he cheerfully greets strangers on the street who know him only as the “fourth idiot.”
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/big-in-bollywood-2/
LOCATION:Camera 12\, 201 S 2nd Street\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2012,festivals,films
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SUMMARY:Special Screening: Ashim Ahluwalia's "Miss Lovely"
DESCRIPTION:3rd i Films is pleased to be a community partner for the Global Film Initiative and SFFS presentation of\nAshim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely \nWhen: February 28\, 7 pm\nWhere: New People Cinema\nTickets: $5 (with discount code: 3RDMEM) \nRunning Time: 110mins\nLanguage: Hindi with English subtitles \nFollowed by an in-depth Q&A with the filmmaker\, moderated by 3rd i’s Ivan Jaigirdar \nDelving deep into the underbelly of India’s film industry\, where back-alley producers churn out everything from pulpy horror movies to soft-core porn\, Miss Lovely takes us back to Mumbai of the 1980s with lurid detail and intoxicating style. Working out of sleazy hotels and abandoned warehouses\, brothers Sonu (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and Vicky (Anil George) are prolific producers of trashy\, C-grade films for Mumbai’s booming underground market. But this precarious partnership is put to the test when the brothers meet Pinky (Niharika Singh)\, an exquisite ingenue with a shady past. \nFor more information on the program and to purchase tickets\, please visit the listing on the SFFS website.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/special-screening-ashim-ahluwalias-miss-lovely/
LOCATION:New People Cinema\, 1746 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents CSAS' presentation of "The Mahabharata"
DESCRIPTION:3rd i Films is pleased to copresent\nCenter for South Asia Studies‘ (UC Berkeley) presentation of\nThe Mahabharata: A Re-Telling of an Indian Epic Poem by Jean-Claude Carriére \nWhen: March 16\, 5-8pm\nWhere: Chevron Auditorium\, International House\, UC Berkeley\nTickets: See link below for ticket information \nRenowned French playwright\, screenwriter\, author\, actor and raconteur par excellence Jean-Claude Carrière spent eleven years in India\, tracing the Mahabaharata’s roots in civilization\, geography and its relevance in modern India. His nine-hour magnum opus\, The Mahabharata\, opened in 1985 under the stellar direction of his lifetime collaborator Peter Brook and an international cast\, and quickly became a watershed moment in theatrical history across the Western world. Jean-Claude Carriére gives Bay Area audiences a simple but powerful one-man rendition of the story of Mahabharata\, in the style of the old wandering minstrels of India. \nFor more information on the program and for tickets\, please visit: http://southasia.berkeley.edu/events/JCC.pdf
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-csas-presentation-of-the-mahabharata/
LOCATION:Chevron Auditorium\, International House\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents films at CAAMFest 2013
DESCRIPTION:3rd i is pleased to co-present\, with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)\, three films at CAAMFest in San Francisco\, an 11-day celebration of film\, music\, food and digital media from the world’s most innovative Asian and Asian American artists. \nThe Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist chronicles the life of a Pakistani man altered by 9/11. From New York City in 2001 to Lahore ten years later\, Changez (Riz Ahmed) loses his grip on the American Dream and ends up disillusioned with the country he used to love.\nMarch 17\, 2013\n12:00 pm\nCastro Theatre\, San Francisco \nReluctant Fundamentalist Panel\nMarch 23\, 2013\n4:00 pm.\nUnion Bank Community Room\, San Francisco \nMidnight’s Children: Auteur Deepa Mehta (Water\, SFIAAFF ’06) returns to the festival with her much-anticipated collaboration with writer Salman Rushdie\, an adaptation of his award-winning novel Midnight’s Children. Born at the exact moment of India’s independence\, Saleem leads “midnight’s children\,” those born in India’s first hour\, all with magical powers.\nMarch 17\, 2013\n6:00 pm\nCastro Theatre\, San Francisco \nDosa Hunt: What happens when you put pianist Vijay Iyer\, music critic Amrit Singh\, and members of Das Racist\, Vampire Weekend\, Yea-sayer and Neon Indian into an Indian disco van to track down NYC’s best dosa? Plenty of Bobby Jindal jokes\, heartfelt extolling of the virtues of coconut-hair oil\, and even more in this journey deep into the heart of that virtuous South Asian crepe.\nMarch 21\, 2013\n6:00 pm\nAsian Art Museum of San Francisco \nFor more information about these films or CAAMFest\, check out the website. Details on all the films are under the Festival Guide tab.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-films-at-caamfest-2013/
LOCATION:Various
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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SUMMARY:3rd i Films & AIF co-present an evening of Films and discussion on Education in India
DESCRIPTION:AIF (American India Foundation) in association with 3rd i Films presents two short films followed by discussion. \nFilms: Lucky\, directed by Avie Luthra and Kunjo\, directed by Terrie Samundra (more info below). \nWhen: Thursday\, April 4th\, 7pm – 8:30pm\nWhere: ATA\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\nTickets: Available on the night of the event\, at the door. \nLucky\nDirected by Avie Luthra\, 20 min (UK/South Africa) \nLucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village in South Africa for the bright lights of Durban\, and also to get an education there. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has to learn about life the hard way\, not through school or education but through an unlikely bond with a prejudiced Indian elderly women. \n*Lucky has won 43 international film festival awards and was shortlisted for an Oscar. \nKunjo\nDirected by Terrie Samundra\, 25 min (US/India) \n\nForced to work to support her family\, Kunjo\, a 12-year-old refugee\, spends her days begging on the streets. When an unlikely friendship blossoms with Preeta\, an educated school girl from a higher caste\, Kunjo reveals her secret passion for storytelling. Faced with betrayal and the complexity of an unconventional friendship\, will Kunjo stand up for herself or submit to her place in society? \n*Winner\, Best Narrative Short\, Athens International Film Festival.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-films-aif-co-present-an-evening-of-films-and-discussion-on-education-in-india/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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SUMMARY:3rd i Films is pleased to present Art for Partition
DESCRIPTION:A FREE event  –  April 6\, 2013 \nPresented by 1947 Archive \nDiscover untold stories of South Asia’s 1947 Partition. Engage through lectures\, discussions\, music\, poetry and art. Support the preservation of first-hand accounts by bidding on donated art works or attending the benefit luncheon. \nWhen:\n11:30 am – Benefit Luncheon | Buy tickets\n2:00 pm – FREE Event – Understanding Partition | Reserve Free tickets\n4:00 pm – FREE Film Screening – Earth 1947 | Limited Seating – Reserve Now! \nWhere: UC Berkeley Skydeck | 2150 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\nEnjoy stunning 360-degree bay views from the penthouse ballroom. \nView the art gallery online! | Browse and bid now | Ends April 6 @ 6:30 pm \nFurther info here.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-films-is-pleased-to-present-art-for-partition/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Skydeck\, 2150 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents at SFIFF
DESCRIPTION:Salma\nDirected by Kim Longinotto \nVeteran 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) \nWhen/Where\nThursday\, May 2\, 6:15 PM – Sundance Kabuki Cinemas\nSaturday\, May 4\, 2:00 PM – Pacific Film Archive\nSunday\, May 5\, 3:45 PM – New People Cinema \n \nThe Last Step\nDirected by Ali Mosaffa \nA 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 \nWhen/Where\nSaturday\, May 4\, 7:00 PM – New People Cinema\nWednesday\, May 8\, 6:15 PM – New People Cinema\nThursday\, May 9\, 1:00 PM – New People Cinema \nFor more information\, visit the SFIFF website.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/1809/
LOCATION:Various
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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SUMMARY:3rd i presents "From Mutiny to Bengali Harlem: Stories of the Diaspora"
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n(aka “Vivek Bald’s Films and Stories”)\nVivek 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. \nVivek Bald in person \nSan Francisco event\nWhen: Friday\, May 17\, 7:30 pm\nWhere: New People Cinema\, Japantown\n1746 Post St.\, San Francisco\, CA 94115\nCost: $12\nBuy tickets online! \nThe program lasts for 1.5 hours. \nMore details below. \n \nMutiny: Asians Storm British Music (dir. Vivek Bald\, 2003)\nCombining 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. \n“Concert footage\, TV clips\, interviews and more are briskly interwoven into an energetic documentary.” –Variety \n“Great fun – a journey through some of the most historic moments of the diasporic musical movement.”\n–Gurinder Chadha\, Bend It Like Beckham\nBengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America\n(Harvard University Press\, 2013) \n \nIn 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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-presents-from-mutiny-to-bengali-harlem-stories-of-the-diaspora/
LOCATION:New People Cinema\, 1746 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130518T140000
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SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents at AHSC Cinema Showcase
DESCRIPTION:3rd i co-presents with CAAM at the 3rd Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) Cinema Showcase. \n3rd Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) Cinema Showcase\n\nDate: Saturday\, May 18th\, 2013\nTime: 2 pm to 4 pm\nLocation: Asian Art Museum\, Samsung Hall\, 200 Larkin Street \nAdmission 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.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-at-ahsc-cinema-showcase/
LOCATION:Asian Art Museum\, Samsung Hall\, 200 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130521T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130521T130000
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SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents "The Island President" at the EPA
DESCRIPTION: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. \n 
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-the-island-president-at-the-epa/
LOCATION:EPA\, Arizona-California Room\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130601T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130601T183000
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SUMMARY:3rd i Films co-presents at the SF Green Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Powerless\nFahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar\, India\, 2013\nEnglish and Hindi with English subtitles.\nSneak Preview. \nWhen: Saturday\, June 1\, 6:30 pm\nWhere: New People Cinema\, Japantown\, SF \nWould you risk your life to flip a switch? In Kanpur\, India\, putting oneself in harm’s way to deliver electrical power is all too common\, especially for Loha Singh. He earns his living by giving electricity to those who can’t afford it\, splicing lines from paying utility customers. While an admirable feat against the Goliath power company that charges well beyond reasonable fees to the people of Kanpur\, Loha’s actions perpetuate the problems of the city by lessening the power supply — an amount that is distributed based on the number of paying customers. The situation intensifies for both parties and feeds into a vicious cycle of supply and demand. Somewhere in the middle of this battle is Ritu Maheshwari\, the power company’s woman-in-charge\, caught between two sides that do not share her understanding that change comes slowly and in increments. Powerless sheds light on the opposing corners of this political ring\, from Singh’s electrical Robin Hood\, tapping wires for neighbors\, to the myopic utility company whose failure to understand economics forces it deeper into financial disarray. This vibrant exposé gives a whole new meaning to the words “power struggle.” \nFor more information on the programs and to purchase tickets\, please visit the SF Green Film Festival website.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-films-co-presents-at-the-sf-green-film-festival/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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