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Films and Filmmakers Series

February 20, 2018, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location School of Communication and Media - Presentation Hall Room 1040
Posted InFilm Forum at Montclair State
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Following a screening of A Suitable Girl, Prof. Roberta Friedman will moderate a discussion with filmmaker Sarita Khurana.

Khurana’s feature film, A Suitable Girl, world premiered in the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Documentary Competition section, and won the Best New Documentary Director prize. Her critically acclaimed work in narrative, documentary, and experimental film has been screened and exhibited internationally. Her work often focuses on South Asian stories, and explores female subjectivities. Migration, memory, marginality, community, territory, gender and sexuality are common themes in her work.

Sarita Khurana was born in London, and immigrated with her family to New York City. She has lived and worked in NY primarily, in addition to frequently working in India and the U.K.

Sarita Khurana holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an Ed.M from Harvard University, and an M.F.A. in Film - Directing, from Columbia University's School of the Arts.  In 2009, she was named as one of NY Women in Film & Television’s “Emerging Female Directors.” Her work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the International Documentary Association, NALIP-Diverse Women in Film, Art in General, the National Film Development Corporation of India, Women in Film-Los Angeles, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Film Independent. Khurana is also the co-founder of Cine Qua Non Lab, an international development lab for narrative feature films, based in Mexico and the U.S.