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CROSSING LINES
Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani, India/US, 2008; 30min. NY Premiere. |
Synopsis:
Filmmaker Indira Somani led an American life, but at home, her world was Indian because of her father's love for India and Indian culture. This film’s journey is a familiar one to many South Asian Americans, as the filmmaker goes to India for the first time after her father’s death. A simple story, effectively told, of a daughter’s tribute to her father in all that he has taught her about the place she discovers as an essential part of her idea of home. |
Directors: Leena Jayaswal
Leena Jayaswal is an Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University, Washington DC. Her photography has been nationally seen in galleries around the country. Her films An Impression : Dischord Records was honored as the Best Selected Juror Film at the Berkeley Art Center, California and has also been screened in other juried film festivals, including DC Meets Delhi Film Festival, National Museum of Women in the Arts Film Festival and DC Independent Film Festival.
Indira Somani
Indira S. Somani is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at Washington and Lee University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park in May, 2008. Somani has been a writer and producer of financial broadcasts for CNBC, and a senior producer for Early Today, an NBC network newscast. She has also been a show and field producer for WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington D.C., where she won the prestigious Gracie Allen Award in 1998 for the Working Woman portrait series. She has been a leader of the South Asian Journalists Association, where she has also won several awards on her coverage of South Asians in North America. |
Screening Venue:
The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Thursday, November 6 at 6 PM.
Tickets for Jazz at Lincoln Center
Tribeca Cinemas 1. Saturday, November 8 at 12 PM.
Tickets for Tribeca Cinemas |
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