A 3-day festival showcasing the best independent films from the South Asian Diaspora.

The ISAFF website is here!

http://www.tasveer.org

Now you can check our full schedule! Buy your tickets today! Our FULL Festival Pass is only $50. Its a steal! Student/Senior is only $35. Buy in advance and support us so that you don't wait in line at the ticket window. Also, tell your friends about our website. We have an amazing Lineup. We have the volunteers favorite corner which we will update it in every newsletter. Send the link to your friends. 

**Please note that we have tons of schedule changes in our lineup. Please visit our website before you buy the ticket or come to the festival.**

Volunteer Corner

Let's find out what each volunteer is most looking forward to seeing with you.

Rita Meher, Festival Director
Gabricha Paus:The Damned Rain: When I previewed this film, I was simply blown away by the beauty of this film, with perfect cinematography, story line, acting, and simplicity- no frills film. If there is one perfect film to watch, this is the one!!! "Gabricha Paus is a tale of a frightened wife’s attempts to save her husband from the clutches of death. The plot revolves around the counsels she receives from her recently widowed friend whose husband commits suicide due to mounting debts."  The dark comedy of the film will suck you in and make you leave the theater in utter shock , a satisfactory one!

The Living Ghost: My personal favorite. Being an Oriya, I am so excited to see this beautiful film about a tribe, their love and struggle, where my family tends to come from. It is a special tribute to my family! "On one level it is the story of a simple villager Bangaru, of the Dongriya tribe who lives in up in the hills. Yet on another level, it also succeeds in capturing the pain of all that is good and innocent in this tribal community, as their way of life is steadily eroded by outside influences. All under the guise of ‘modernization'." - Sunaina Serna Ahluwalia

Special Acknowledgement

We also want to thank Zaara Kittenchops for designing our beautiful posters and fliers. Wherever we go and give our fliers and posters, people have been extra enthusiastic about our festival.  Thanks to hard work of Navin Kulshreshtha to design our website. He has created a wonderful website in a short time. To check his work out please visit his website DeviStudios.com 

Also this festival would not be possible without our core team:  Alisha Damodaran, Ankur Kalra, Kruti Vora, Mridula Bhatia, Matrayi Joneja, Navin Kulshreshtha, Prachi Vora, Rita Meher, Sandeep Mohan, Sanjay Beery. If you like our festival, please don't forget to thank them for their hard work when you see them.

ISAFF Production Note

So, Day 2 of our promotional work for ISAFF 2009 kicked off with an utterly jarring and uncomfortable event. We were circulating our fabulous fliers and posters around Bellevue and took another halt at a South-Indian restaurant at Crossroads. While we (Rita and Matrayi) were chatting with the management there and sharing info about ISAFF, this gentleman comes up to the counter to pay his bill. A middle-aged guy of average built, wearing round spectacles and sporting desi kurta pajama, he asked us about ISAFF 2009, out of curiosity.

When we told him that this is a 'South Asian' event, he lost his cool and accused us of being the reason behind all the terrorist attacks that have happened in our part of the world. He also didn't mince any words when he said that 'we' had made our country the laughing stock of the world because of our peace-loving theme and attitude. According to him, we were being naive in our pursuit of a UNITED South Asia. We stood there, left agape with shock and anger. We fumbled with a good response, but clearly this person had a set agenda on his mind and no amount of reasoning would have worked with him. He seemed pre-conditioned and determined to believe in his ideology of hatred.

In a matter of five minutes, a non-event became an event and we found ourselves facing a hardcore Hindu zealot in the guise of a successful techie from Bellevue.

Call for Volunteers

Do you want to see the film festival for FREE? Come join our fun team on the days of the festival. Orientation will be September 30th, 7pm. Location to be determined. You will have a blast and get to meet some independent South Asian Filmmakers. For that write to info@tasveer.org

Free Childcare at ISAFF!

We have a FREE Kids Play Room. Tips for babysitters are appreciated.

Community Corner

"Raag-Samay:" Ancient melodies evoking moods of the day. Sarodist Brandon McIntosh and Tabla Maestro Kuntal Roy will describe and demonstrate the ancient concept of Samay (Sanskrit: "time"), evoking the different moods of dawn through dusk with with melody.

Sep. 18, 7-9pm, Eastwest Bookstore, 6500 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, $15 / children under 12 FREE!

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