Film Festivals, Awards, and Screenings

Kumbharwada, Bombay (Potters’ Colony)



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• AFI (American Film Institute) LA International Film & Video Festival


• Arizona Cinema Shorts Film & Video Festival


• Best Documentary Award at the Stark Film & Video Festival, Wisconsin


• Finalist Award in the New York Festivals’ non-broadcast category


• Finalist Award at the VITAS Festival of Folklore and Popular Culture, UCLA


• Telluride IndieFest ’97, Colorado


• Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois


• Director’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey


• Second Prize at the New Arts Program Video Festival ’97, Pennsylvania


• Juror’s Award (Gold Shortie) at Victoria Independent Short Film & Video Festival, Canada


• The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival


• Honorable Mention at the Rochester International Film Festival


• Women of Color Film & Video Festival, Santa Cruz, California


• Curators’ Citation for Best of Program at Windy City International Documentary Festival, Illinois


• Golden Calf Awards, Campus Cinema, Davis, California


• City College of San Francisco International Short Cinema Festival, California


• Minsk International Women’s Festival, Republic of Belarus


• Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Georgia


• Cinema Arts Centre International Film Festival, Huntington, New York


• International Visual Anthropology Festival, Parnu, Estonia


• Philafilm – The Philadelphia International Film Festival, Pennsylvania


• Second Place winner in the Riverwalk Arts Festival, Pennsylvania


• “Through the Lens” WYBE TV-35, Pennsylvania


• TTAFF – Tacoma Tortured Artist Film Fest, Washington


• Highly Commended by the Judges at the Guernsey Lily


• International Amateur Film & Video Festival, Channel Islands


• The Hungarian Multicultural Center’s HMC Film/Video Fest Budapest, Hungary


• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Arkansas


• Honorable Mention at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Ohio


• International Leipzig Festival for Documentary & Animated Films, Germany


• Second Best Student Documentary at the Canadian International Film & Video Festival


• “No TV • No Movies”, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester


• Honorable Mention at the Missouri Video Festival, Missouri


• National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai


• Mumbai International Film Festival


• The American Museum of Natural History, New York City

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