Mohammed to Maya

Filmmakers in Person!
Journey across the gender lines with these two intimate docs that offer engaging accounts of the challenges and joys of the transformative process. The feature presentation follows one year in the life of Maya (formerly Mohammed), a Tamil Muslim, as she journeys to Singapore to have sexual reassignment surgery. With short: Performing Girl

The Revolutionary Optimists

Filmmakers in person!
Emmy-nominated Bay Area filmmakers Monsen-Grainger and Newnham capture the inspiring stories of young South Asians as trail-blazing agents of change. The doc follows Amlan Ganguly as he mentors three children towards transforming lives in the slums of Calcutta. With short: Bhiwani Junction

Deewaar: Bollywood Under the Stars

India Community Center Lotus Room, 556 Los Coches St, Milpitas, CA, United States

Join 3rd i Films and ICC, Milpitas for an outdoor screening of Yash Chopra's classic Deewaar. The story of two brothers, one a criminal (Amitabh Bachchan) and the other a police officer (Shashi Kapoor), who come head-to-head in a quintessential Bollywood style face off between good and bad.

Free

3rd i co-presents at CAAM Festival in San Jose

Camera 3 288 S 2nd St., San Jose, CA, United States

"Let's Be Out, the Sun is Shining" is about a mismatched couple in a world of actors/musicians/artists who live potentially displaced in Bushwick, a Latino immigrant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

$11 – $12

3rd i Co-presents at Laborfest

Unnamed Venue 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco

3rd iFilms co-presents at Laborfest, the FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival: The Machinist (Directed by Hannan Majid & Richard York) and Bhopali (Directed by Van Maximilian Carlson).

Donation

3rd i is pleased to co-present “The Ode”

Delancey Street Screening Room 600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, United States

Screening of "The Ode," based on the novel Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, starring Sachin Bhatt (Bombay Dreams), Wilson Cruz and Sakina Jaffrey.

3rd i is pleased to support the SF Ethnic Dance Festival

Lam Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

When: Saturday, June 15th, 8pm Where: Lam Research Theater Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco    

3rd i presents “Bollywood Divas”

Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

An evening of satire, comedy and drop-down drag Bollywood 'ishtyle', featuring Kareem Khubhchandani's LESSONS IN DRAG, and Anuj Vaidya's BAD GIRL WITH A HEART OF GOLD. Presented in collaboration with the APICC's United States of Asian America Festival and QCC's National Queer Arts Festival.

3rd i Films co-presents at the SF Green Film Festival

"Powerless" asks, "would you risk your life to flip a switch?" In Kanpur, India, putting oneself in harm's way to deliver electrical power is all too common. This vibrant exposé gives a whole new meaning to the words "power struggle."

3rd i co-presents “The Island President” at the EPA

EPA Arizona-California Room, CA, United States

As part of The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency Region 9) Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage employment program, 3rd i co-presents The Island President at the EPA. May 21, 2013.  

3rd i co-presents at AHSC Cinema Showcase

Asian Art Museum Samsung Hall, 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

Admission to the museum will be free all day and there is no additional cost to watch the films! Click here for the full schedule of films.

3rd i presents “From Mutiny to Bengali Harlem: Stories of the Diaspora”

New People Cinema 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Vivek Bald, writer, filmmaker, and MIT professor, reads from his new book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America and presents clips from his work-in-progress, the film In Search of Bengali Harlem, and an excerpt from his rarely seen 2003 documentary Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music, about South Asian youth, music, and anti-racist activism in 1970s-90s Britain.

3rd i co-presents at SFIFF

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3rd i Films is pleased to co-present two films at the SF International Film Festival: Kim Longinotto's Salma, and Ali Mosaffa's The Last Step.

3rd i co-presents films at CAAMFest 2013

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3rd i is pleased to co-present the following films at CAAMFest in San Francisco: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Midnight's Children and Dosa Hunt.

3rd i co-presents CSAS’ presentation of “The Mahabharata”

Chevron Auditorium International House, UC Berkeley, Berkeley

A Re-Telling of the Indian Epic Poem by Jean-Claude Carriére, renowned French playwright, screenwriter, author, actor and raconteur par excellence who spent eleven years in India, tracing the Mahabaharata’s roots in civilization, geography and its relevance in modern India.

Special Screening: Ashim Ahluwalia’s “Miss Lovely”

New People Cinema 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Delving deep into the underbelly of India’s film industry, where back-alley producers churn out everything from pulpy horror movies to soft-core porn, Miss Lovely takes us back to Mumbai of the 1980s with lurid detail and intoxicating style.

Big in Bollywood

Camera 12 201 S 2nd Street, San Jose, CA, United States

Omi Vaidya in Person. This eye-opening documentary reveals the fascinating world of Indian cinema, and the culture around it, in a way you’ve never seen before.

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