Wed October 28, 2015
Between Two Worlds: An Evening with Mira Nair: Film Screening and Conversation
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at Stanford Cubberly Auditorium
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5:00 pm: Film Screening, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012, 130 minutes)
Please note doors will close at 5:15 pm and reopen at 7:10 pm.
7:10 pm: Intermission
7:30 pm: A Conversation with Mira Nair, Professor Robert Crews (Stanford, Department of History), and Professor Aishwary Kumar (Stanford, Department of History)
Mira Nair is a prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and independent cinema. After several years of making documentary films, she made Salaam Bombay! (1988), the first Indian film to win the coveted Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and more than 25 international awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Nair then directed Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998). Her Monsoon Wedding (2001) won the Golen Lion, Venice’s top prize in cinema. Her most recent films include Amelia (2009), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), and Words With Gods (2014).
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Please note doors will close at 5:15 pm and reopen at 7:10 pm.
7:10 pm: Intermission
7:30 pm: A Conversation with Mira Nair, Professor Robert Crews (Stanford, Department of History), and Professor Aishwary Kumar (Stanford, Department of History)
Mira Nair is a prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and independent cinema. After several years of making documentary films, she made Salaam Bombay! (1988), the first Indian film to win the coveted Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and more than 25 international awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Nair then directed Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998). Her Monsoon Wedding (2001) won the Golen Lion, Venice’s top prize in cinema. Her most recent films include Amelia (2009), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), and Words With Gods (2014).
5:00 pm: Film Screening, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012, 130 minutes)
Please note doors will close at 5:15 pm and reopen at 7:10 pm.
7:10 pm: Intermission
7:30 pm: A Conversation with Mira Nair, Professor Robert Crews (Stanford, Department of History), and Professor Aishwary Kumar (Stanford, Department of History)
Mira Nair is a prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and independent cinema. After several years of making documentary films, she made Salaam Bombay! (1988), the first Indian film to win the coveted Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and more than 25 international awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Nair then directed Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998). Her Monsoon Wedding (2001) won the Golen Lion, Venice’s top prize in cinema. Her most recent films include Amelia (2009), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), and Words With Gods (2014).
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Please note doors will close at 5:15 pm and reopen at 7:10 pm.
7:10 pm: Intermission
7:30 pm: A Conversation with Mira Nair, Professor Robert Crews (Stanford, Department of History), and Professor Aishwary Kumar (Stanford, Department of History)
Mira Nair is a prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and independent cinema. After several years of making documentary films, she made Salaam Bombay! (1988), the first Indian film to win the coveted Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and more than 25 international awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Nair then directed Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998). Her Monsoon Wedding (2001) won the Golen Lion, Venice’s top prize in cinema. Her most recent films include Amelia (2009), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), and Words With Gods (2014).
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Stanford Cubberly Auditorium
485 Lasuen Mall, Palo Alto, CA 94305
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