Mira Nair
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Biography: Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard. She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006. Her most recent films included Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon, The Namesake, and Amelia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mira Nair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Rourkela, Orissa, India
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Birthday: October 15, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Female
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Bollywood Calling
Overview: An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-23
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The Many Miracles of Household Saints
Overview: In keeping with the intergenerational magic of 'Household Saints', filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling new documentary, 'The Many Miracles of Household Saints', revealing the improbable story behind the making of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-06
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India Cabaret
Overview: A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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Mississippi Masala
Overview: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-18
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Femme
Overview: A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Overview: Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-08
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Overview: An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Solace in the Dark
Overview: A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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The Perez Family
Overview: In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-12
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Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Overview: Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-18
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This Changes Everything
Overview: An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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Lights, Action, Music
Overview: A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern greats.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-06
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Restoring the Apu Trilogy
Overview: In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though there were no technologies available at the time capable of fully restoring such badly damaged film elements, the Academy Film Archive held on to them. And now times have changed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-17
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Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Overview: A sequel to the 1988 award winning documentary, "Slaying the Dragon," this film looks at the past 25 years of representation of Asian and Asian American women in U.S. visual media -- from blockbuster films and network television to Asian American cinema and YouTube -- to explore what's changed, what's been recycled, and what we can hope for in the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Overview: This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-01
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Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
Overview: A portrait of American actress Uma Thurman, muse of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and courageous voice for the many victims of despotic producer Harvey Weinstein.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-08-25
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My Own Country
Overview: An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-12
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