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Mahesh Pailoor’s poignant and uplifting “Brahmin Bulls,” will open the inaugural Dallas/Fort Worth South Asian Film Festival (DFW SAFF) Feb. 27 at the Angelika Film Center in Plano. The father and son drama set in Los Angeles, stars Roshan Seth and Sendhil Ramamurthy.
The festival, which runs through March 1, will showcase 14 films exploring the unique circumstances and complex stories of South Asians living in America, India, Nepal, Australia and Singapore.
Emma Thompson-produced and Academy Award-Winner Jeffrey D. Brown-directed “Sold” is the festival’s centerpiece film about a Nepali girl sex trafficked in India and rescued by a team of Americans journalists, played by Gillian Anderson and David Arquette.
The festival closes with the world premiere of “Rough Book,” a controversial look at India’s current education system and how a renegade teacher rebels against rote classroom learning by encouraging her students to think outside the box. Directed by Ananth Mahadevan, produced by Viveck Vaswani and starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, this though provoking drama has already been endorsed by India’s Education Minister and will be offered ta-free to Indian audiences upon its theatrical release.
The festival also boasts compelling shorts and documentaries, women’s, LGBT and family programming, including an animated children’s film and youth-focused movies. Some of the films to be screened are “Katiyabaaz”, “Asian Pride Project”, “Fire in the Blood”, “Tomorrow We Disappear”, “Blouse”, “Happy Raksha Bandhan”, and “Ravi and Jane,” among others.
Produced by JINGO Media, a Dallas and New York City-based PR and events management boutique firm, Etihad Airways, Jet Airways, Cambria Hotels & Suites, and Crow Collection of Asian Art, the festival will bring together directors, actors, producers, community organizations, corporate brands and South Asian cinephiles, over a three-day period.
“We are so proud and humbled that 30 different community organizations and brands are coming together to support our first-time festival,” said Jitin Hingorani, festival director and principal/CEO of JINGO Media. “We are certain that North Texas audiences will embrace this festival by giving all our international guests a warm Texas welcome and, hopefully, a few standing ovations,” he added.
