2007 South Asian International Film Festival with Official Founding Sponsor – SANA, from October 3-9 in New York City.SAIFF will host over 50 of the latest and most celebrated short, documentary and feature films from the South Asian subcontinent. The weeklong film festival continues SAIFF's mission to present the best and brightest emerging talent in South Asian cinema from across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.This year's festival will include 17 World Premieres and 13 Nor...
The fourth annual 2007 South Asian International Film Festival will be held from October 3-9, 2007 in New York City.The festival will present the North American Premiere of Rajshree Ojha's CHAURAHEN (Crossroads) at the Clearview Cinema at Lincoln Square on October 6, 2007. The film, almost like snippets of collected photographs, brings together similar disconnected people in search forsomething to overcome the mundane of reality. It is a film, which isvery different from anything seen in moder...
The fourth annual 2007 South Asian International Film Festival will be held from October 3-9, 2007 in New York City.The festival will present John Jeffcoat's OUTSOURCED at the Loews Cineplex in Greenwich Village on October 4, 2007. The film is a modern day comedy of cross-cultural conflict and romance that crosses the globe. Todd Anderson spends his days managing a customer call center in Seattle until his job, along with those of the entire office, are outsourced to India. Adding insult to in...
The fourth annual 2007 South Asian International Film Festival will be held from October 3-9, 2007 in New York City.The festival will close with Bhavna Talwar's directorial debut DHARM at Loews Cineplex in Lincoln Square on October 9, 2007. Set in the oldest and holiest city of India, Varanasi, Pundit Ram Narayan Chaturvedi is a Hindu Brahmin priest who lives by his belief in the 'true Hindu way of life'. One day an abandoned infant comes into the Priest's life and home. He adopts the child and...
The 2007 South Asian International Film Festival will be held from October 3-9, 2007 in New York City.The festival will open with Manish Acharya's LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS at Loews Cineplex in Lincoln Square on October 3, 2007. Walking the red carpet will be the full cast and crew including, Shabana Azmi and Ajay Naidu. A film set over three days, in Edison, New Jersey, where five Indian-Americans and one Jewish Indophile participate in the first DESI IDOL, a Bollywood-style singing contest spo...
NY 2006 South Asian International Film Festival will run from October 4-8 in New York City. SAIFF will host over 50 of the latest and most celebrated short, documentary and feature films from the South Asian subcontinent. The five-day film festival continues SAIFF's mission to present the best in South Asian cinema from across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This year's festival will include 21 World Premieres and 11 North American premieres. "We had an overwhelming numb...