Posts Tagged ‘Fatakra’
Fatakra is playing this weekend at the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina as well as the Memphis Film and Music Festival. I’ve noticed that Fatakra has played a number of festivals that put an emphasis on music, so it’s worth noting that the score was composed by Samrat Chakrabarti — who also [...]
Direct Arts, a New York based group, produces a program called Take Two where they pair a short film with a reading of a new play dealing with common themes or subjects. This coming Tuesday, they will be screening Fatakra and follow it with a reading of Since Africa by Mia McCullough about a Sudanese immigrant [...]
Fatakra will be screening on Saturday as part of a Family Shorts Program at the Cleveland International Film Festival! I haven’t seen any of the other films in the program. Wish I could go.
Fatakra will screen at the Charlotte Film Festival on Tuesday, March 20th at 6:45pm. We’ve also been nominated for best narrative short!
Fatakra, along with good friend Miguel Alvarez’s film Mnemosyne Rising, is heading to Russia this weekend. The films are screening at U. Short in St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of the “Lost in Space and Other Problems of our Lives” block. I guess Mnemosyne is the Lost in Space portion, and Fatakra brings in the Other [...]
Fatakra heads back to Texas this weekend. It will be playing at the Boomtown Film & Music Festival in Beaumont, Texas — not too far away from my hometown in Houston. The film screens Friday at 7pm and then again on Saturday at 3pm.
Now that the we’re past the worst of winter (or so I keep telling myself), Fatakra has a busy spring of upcoming screenings. Oxford Film Festival I’m extremely excited to be playing at Oxford in the same block as Kat Candler’s Hellion. The film written and directed by Kat Candler and produced by Kelly Williams [...]
Fatakra will be playing in Cambodia this weekend as part of the Ion Film Festival, a festival that makes a new international destination it’s home each year. I actually visited Cambodia shortly after shooting the film to visit the ancient Hindu temple ruins in Angkor Wat. I love history, and I love being reminded that cultures [...]
The photos are in, so I can finally post this — Fatakra recently won a Directors Guild of America Student Film Award! With the goal of honoring and encouraging minority and women filmmakers, the DGA grants awards in the categories Asian American, Latino, African American, and Women. Fatakra won the Asian American category. The awards [...]
Amelia Fry of the Southern Appalachian International Film Festival emailed me to tell me that Fatakra received two awards at this year’s festival — Best Short Drama and Best Short International Film! Extremely exciting news! It’s the first time Fatakra has been doubly honored by a festival! Thank you Amelia, the jury, and all of [...]
This past weekend, the jury at the Napa Valley Film Festival awarded Fatakra Best Narrative Short! Thank you to the jury, the staff, and the volunteers of NVFF for this terrific honor. We were thrilled to be a part of this inaugural event celebrating wine and film. Lead actress Meena Serendib represented the film [...]
Fatakra screens today at 6pm and then again on Friday at 8pm at the Oaxaca Film Festival. Thank you to Sapna Patel and Radhika Dinavahi for their subtitling efforts!
I’m very late on this post, but Fatakra hits three cities this weekend (with all three screening the film today) – Fort Worth – Fatakra screens as part of the Texas Show at the Lone Start International Film Festival today at 11:30am. Boston – The film then plays at the Boston Asian American Film Festival [...]
If you haven’t caught it yet, Fatakra will be screening at the Cinema Arts Festival in Houston tomorrow (Thursday) at 3:45pm at the Museum of Fine Arts. I grew up in Houston and the city’s art scene was extremely influential for my own journey to filmmaking. Seeing modern theater at the Alley, Shakespeare at the Miller Outdoor [...]
Fatakra will be screening in Shorts Block 2 on Saturday at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival along with fellow University of Texas films Benny (Huay-Bing Law) and Post-Racial (Tim Tsai). Doctor Kong and Grant Street Shaving Company are also two shorts in the block that I’ve seen on the festival circuit this year. [...]
Fatakra makes two stops this weekend – JamFest Indie Film Festival on Friday. Southern Appalachian International Film Festival this Sunday. Also found out that Fatakra won 2nd Place at the Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival in Houston last weekend. Thank you to Shanda Davis and everyone at Bayou City! Our second award in Houston. I guess there’s [...]
Thank you to the jury at the Golden Door International Film Festival for recognizing Fatakra with the Best Short Award this past weekend! Congratulations and thank you to all of the staff, volunteers, and especially Bill Sorvino for hosting a terrific festival!
Another busy weekend for Fatakra! When I initially made my master tapes for the film, I made 2 HDCam tapes and 2 DigiBeta tapes. I could never have anticipated that the film would ever play in five festival in one weekend. Luckily, many festivals have started screening from digital QuickTime files. Which means, I can [...]
Three more festivals for this weekend: Golden Door International Film Festival (Jersey City) - Producer Ninaad is representing the film all weekend at the first ever Golden Door Film Festival where we’re nominated for Best Short and Best Director. New Hampshire Film Festival - We’re screening extremely early (10:15 AM) in New Hampshire this morning! Heartland [...]
Some exciting news from Portugal! A sincere thank you to the jury, the programmers, and the entire team at U.Frame. Congrats to the whole Fatakra team.
Another busy week for Fatakra – Tasveer’s Seattle South Asian Film Festival – The festival with one of the coolest banners! Tasveer brings South Asian films to Seattle all weekend long. Fatakra will be playing on Saturday at 9pm with the feature Shuttlecock Boys. Tucson Film & Music Festival – TFMF brings film and [...]
Going home is always a good thing. They jury at the India Film Festival of Houston awarded Fatakra Best Short at this year’s festival. I was there for the screening but had to return to New York before the awards ceremony. So my Dad received the award in my behalf. Since I made the film [...]
4 festivals for Fatakra this week – Indian Film Festival of Houston – Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 8pm (here’s an article in Indo American News) Twin Cities Film Fest – Thursday, Sept. 22 at 1pm & Saturday, Sept. 24 at 11am Clearwater Film & Music Festival – Sunday, Sept. 25 at 5pm (Meena Serendib is [...]
The South Dakota Film Festival announced its jury winners this past week and Fatakra was selected as the Best Narrative Short! We’ve been fortunate to receive some terrific recognition for the film, but this is actually our first juried Best Narrative Short award. Congrats to the entire Fatakra team and thank you SDFF [...]