Mark your calendar for New York’s Indian film festival that brought you premieres of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, THE NAMESAKE, and WATER…. The MIACC 2009 Film Festival features five days of exciting screenings of Indian independent and diaspora films, red carpet gala events, post-screening discussions, industry panels, nightly networking parties, special events, awards ceremony, celebrities, media and industry attendance.

Columbia discount applies to regular program, only. The regular program includes films such as The Blue Tower, The winner of Best UK Feature at the 2008 Raindance Film Festival, Smita Bhide’s hothouse brew of urban dreams unveils a rarely seen snapshot of the busy streets and cramped suburban homes in Southall. Abhin Galeya stars as a conflicted British-Asian everyman, beset by venal in laws and overbearing friends, who finds himself heading towards a potentially disastrous romance with the English nurse who tends to his cantankerous - but temptingly wealthy - bedridden Auntie Kamla.