Columbia University has begun to suspend students who have not left a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the school on Monday. The university announced that students who remained and refused to sign a “form committing to abide” to its policies would be “placed on suspension, ineligible to complete the semester or graduate, and will be restricted from all academic, residential, and recreational spaces.”
Earlier on Monday, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University surrounded the encampment as administrators threatened to suspend and evict participating students. University President Nemat Shafik sent an...
Earlier on Monday, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University surrounded the encampment as administrators threatened to suspend and evict participating students. University President Nemat Shafik sent an...
- 4/29/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez and Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Mira Nair recalls the long and arduous journey of making The Reluctant Fundamentalist in a conversation with Nandita Dutta
Multicultural filmmaker Mira Nair known for making films that win both commercial and critical success might seem to have the best of both worlds, in every sense. For instance, Monsoon Wedding made her the first woman director to receive a Golden Lion at Venice in 2001 as well as raked up more than 30 million Usd at the box office. But her latest film-The Reluctant Fundamentalist-was realized through a long and arduous journey, full of ups and downs, just like any independent filmmaker in any part of the world would have it. Investors came and disappeared, budgets were slashed and the project fell apart several times.
The Reluctants
“I have always managed to finance every film I want to make. It’s not easy each time but it’s not as tough as this.
Multicultural filmmaker Mira Nair known for making films that win both commercial and critical success might seem to have the best of both worlds, in every sense. For instance, Monsoon Wedding made her the first woman director to receive a Golden Lion at Venice in 2001 as well as raked up more than 30 million Usd at the box office. But her latest film-The Reluctant Fundamentalist-was realized through a long and arduous journey, full of ups and downs, just like any independent filmmaker in any part of the world would have it. Investors came and disappeared, budgets were slashed and the project fell apart several times.
The Reluctants
“I have always managed to finance every film I want to make. It’s not easy each time but it’s not as tough as this.
- 5/18/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
In 2004, filmmaker Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!, Mississipi Masala & others) founded Maisha Film Labs - a Uganda-based film training initiative by (not-so unlike the Sundance Film Festival’s filmmaker labs, or the Ifp’s filmmaker labs).
The goal of the Maisha Film Labs is to give aspiring filmmakers in the East African country the tools & knowledge they currently lack, to tell their own stories through film, which would then help foster a self-sustaining film industry in Uganda and vicinity, that will support and represent the interests of local audiences.
So, why Uganda? Well… Mira Nair’s award-winning 1991 film, Mississipi Masala (which starred Denzel Washington, by the way, and probably my favorite of all her films), was shot, on location in Kampala, Uganda! And, it’s also in Uganda, in 1988, that she met her husband, scholar, Mahmood Mamdani, while she was doing research for the film.
The first Maisha workshop...
The goal of the Maisha Film Labs is to give aspiring filmmakers in the East African country the tools & knowledge they currently lack, to tell their own stories through film, which would then help foster a self-sustaining film industry in Uganda and vicinity, that will support and represent the interests of local audiences.
So, why Uganda? Well… Mira Nair’s award-winning 1991 film, Mississipi Masala (which starred Denzel Washington, by the way, and probably my favorite of all her films), was shot, on location in Kampala, Uganda! And, it’s also in Uganda, in 1988, that she met her husband, scholar, Mahmood Mamdani, while she was doing research for the film.
The first Maisha workshop...
- 1/14/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
NEW YORK -- New Yorker Films has acquired all U.S. rights to writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako's political comedy-drama Bamako, featuring co-star and executive producer Danny Glover. The film screens Monday at the 44th annual New York Film Festival. A panel discussion will be held on Tuesday that features Sissako, Harry Belafonte, economist Jeffrey David Sachs, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Mahmood Mamdani, president of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa. The feature, which also was selected for May's Festival de Cannes and last month's Toronto International Film Festival, revolves around a couple in the process of breaking up and several people who testify in a court located outside their home in the city of Bamako, the capital of the West African country of Mali.
- 9/29/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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