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Tasveer (TV Series)
Tasveer is a Seattle-based South Asian social justice arts non-profit organization. It was founded by Rita Meher and Farah Nousheen in 2002. Tasveer organizes events including film festivals, community speaking events, and open-mic nights to celebrate the voices of South Asian people through art and film. The organization includes voices of South Asian countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and their diasporas worldwide. The organization also hosts Tasveer TV, an online streaming platform that curates South Asian independent films. Annual events include the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival and the Tasveer South Asian Literary Festival. During the pandemic, in 2020, multiple South Asian festivals were thinking about cancelling the events in US and Canada. However, Tasveer brought them together to host a bigger online global South Asian Film Festival under the name Coalition of South Asian Film Festivals (CoSAFF). In 2021, Tasv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling . The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ( ur, ; born 12 November 1978) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and activist known for her work in films that highlight the inequality with women. She is the recipient of two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards and a Knight International Journalism Award. In 2012, the Government of Pakistan honoured her with the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the second highest civilian honour of the country and the same year ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She holds the record for being the first female film director to have won two Academy Awards by the age of 37. Obaid-Chinoy was born in Karachi in 1978. She received her bachelor's degree in economics and government from Smith College and went on to earn two master's degrees from Stanford University. She returned to Pakistan and launched her career as a filmmaker with her first film ''Terror's Children'' for ''The New York Times''. In 2003 and 2004 she made two award-winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers, smartph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suraj Shama
Suraj may refer to: People Arts and entertainment *Suraj Jagan, Indian playback singer * Suraj Mani, Indian musical artist *Suraj Sharma (born 1993), Indian actor * Suraj Singh Thakuri, Nepali presenter, director and producer *Suraj Venjaramoodu (born 1976), Malayalam film actor and mimicry artist *Suraj (director), Indian director Sport * Suraj Lata Devi (born 1981), former captain of the India women's national hockey team * Suraj Narredu (born 1985), Indian jockey * Suraj Randiv (born 1985), Sri Lankan international cricketer * Suraj Singh (active from 2014), Indian footballer * Sodiq Suraj (born 1988), Nigerian football player who currently plays for Prime F.C. Other fields *Suraj Bhan (born 1928), Indian politician *Suraj Bhan (archaeologist) (1931—2010), Indian archaeologist *Suraj N. Gupta Suraj Narayan Gupta (1 December 1924 – 4 July 2021) was an Indian-born American theoretical physicist, notable for his contributions to quantum field theory. Early life and caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Renzu
Danish Renzu is an Indian born Los Angeles based film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is also the Founder of Renzu Films. Renzu is best known for directing and producing films like ''Half Widow'', '' The illegal'', and ''Songs of Paradise'' featuring Saba Azad, Soni Razdan, Lillete Dubey, among others. Renzu has received numerous accolades, his film '' The illegal'' as a writer and director was shortlisted for nominations for the Best Picture Category at the Academy Awards 2019. Early life and education Danish Renzu was born in Kashmir, India. In 2005, he shifted to Los Angeles for further studies, where he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and UCLA Writers' Program certification in screenwriting from the same University. Career Renzu started directing short movies in 2015. He directed two short films ''In Search of America, Inshallah'' (2014) and ''First Love'' (2015). His first feature film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi (born 18 September 1950) is an Indian actress of Hindi film, television and theatre. One of India's most acclaimed actresses, Azmi is known for her portrayals of distinctive, often unconventional female characters across several genres. She has won a record five National Film Awards for National Film Award for Best Actress, Best Actress, in addition to five Filmfare Awards and several international honours among other accolades. In 1998, she was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, the Indian honours system, fourth-highest civilian honour of the country, and in 2012, she was awarded Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour. The daughter of poet Kaifi Azmi and stage actress Shaukat Azmi, she is an alumna of Film and Television Institute of India of Pune. Azmi made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, a new-wave movement known for its serious content and neorealism and received government p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Price Of Free
''The Price of Free'' is a documentary about Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi. The film, formerly known as Kailash, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and debuted on YouTube in November 2018. ''The Price of Free'' was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary at the 40th News and Documentary Emmy Award The News & Documentary Emmy Awards, or News & Documentary Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Scien ...s. Synopsis The film depicts how Satyarthi left a career as an electrical engineer and started Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) to rescue children from slavery. In the decades since, he has rescued more than 87,000 children and built a global movement including one of the largest civil society movements, the Global March Against Child Labor t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Illegal (film)
''The Illegal'' is a 2019 Indian American English-language drama film written and directed by Danish Renzu. The film is produced by Tara Tucker, and Danish Renzu. Starring Suraj Sharma, Iqbal Theba and Shweta Tripathi in the lead roles, it is a story about a young film school student from middle-class India who is forced to drop out to support his family while staying in the United States as an undocumented worker. ''The Illegal'' premiered at the 2019 Austin Film Festival under the official feature narrative section. Plot The movie starts with Hassan (Suraj Sharma) recording farewell messages from his family - (Adil Hussain), (Neelima Azeem) and friends using his video camera. The last person he attempts many times to record is his sister and best friend Mahi (Shweta Tripathi). Soon after, Hassan heads to America in order to study at one of the top universities so that he can eventually become a director and whilst there he will stay with his mother's brother and their family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Osman Bajwa
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia and Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque of Kufa in 661 by the forces of Mu'awiya, who went on to found the Umayyad Caliphate. The Imam Ali Shrine and the city of Najaf were built around Ali's tomb and it is visited yearly by millions of devotees. Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, raised by him from the age of 5, and accepted his claim of divine revelation by age 11, being among the first to do so. Ali played a pivotal role in the early years of Islam while Muhammad was in Mecca and under severe persecution. After Muhammad's relocation to Medina in 622, Ali married his daughter Fatima and, among others, fathered Hasan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Pure Land
''My Pure Land'' is a 2017 Urdu-language British drama film directed by British Pakistani filmmaker Sarmad Masud. It was selected as the British entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It was the first time the United Kingdom had submitted an Urdu-language film. Inspiration British-Pakistani filmmaker Sarmad (Sam) Masud, born in Bradford to immigrant parents, based the film on the life of Nazo Dharejo, after reading a 2012 story in The Express Tribune that called her "the toughest woman in Sindh." Masud describes the film as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan, based on the extraordinary true story of one woman and her family who defended their home and land from 200 bandits." Plot Nazo Dharejo lives on a farm in rural Sindh, with her parents, two sisters, and an older brother. Early in the film, her father encourages his daughters as well as his son to value the land and be prepared to defend it: ""No matter wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarmad Masud
Sarmad Masud, also known as Sam Masud, is a British filmmaker whose 2017 movie ''My Pure Land'' was the first Urdu language film nominated by the UK for a Foreign Language Oscar award. Personal life Sarmad Masud was born in Bradford to immigrant parents from Pakistan. He grew up in Nottingham. He studied filmmaking at Hull School of Art and Design in Yorkshire. In 2012 he moved to London. In 2013 he married Caroline Bailey, a film art director and production designer. Career After graduation, Masud wrote and directed ''Adha Cup'' (2009), a short film in Urdu about two men ineptly trying to reunite the cast of a Bollywood musical. According to the ''Macau Daily Times'', it was "the first Urdu-language drama commissioned by British broadcaster Channel 4, which was later developed into a six-part series at the BBC." One reviewer called it "a delightful comedy adventure, a sort of bilingual Bollywood Blues Brothers by way of Nottingham." ''Two Dosas'' (2014) was Masud's second short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Price Of Forgiveness
''Ndeyssaan'' (''The Price of Forgiveness'') is a 2001 French / Senegalese film. Synopsis For too long, a strange mist has covered a fishing village. In this atmosphere, favorable to enhancing fear and superstitions, Yatma and Mbanick, two childhood friends, compete to seduce Maxoye. Mbanick, the son of a marabout, challenges the spirits and manages to make the mist disappear. The entire village honors him; the inhabitants revive under the sun's warm rays. The fishermen return to the sea, the market recovers its colors. Maxoye and Mbanick make their relationship public. However, Yatma does not accept Mbanick's newfound popularity. Cast * Hubert Koundé Hubert Koundé (born December 30, 1970) is a French actor and film director. Koundé is best known for his role as Hubert in the film ''La Haine'' by Mathieu Kassovitz. Background Koundé spent his childhood between Benin and France, where he was ... - Yatma * Rokhaya Niang - Maxoye * Gora Seck - Mbanik * Alioune Ndiaye - Amu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
