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Sarita Khurana is a director, producer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Khurana's films explore South Asian stories from female perspectives. Migration, memory, culture, gender, and sexuality are common themes throughout her work.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Early life and Education

Sarita Khurana was born in London, England in 1970, and grew up in New York City.[6][4]

While growing up in New York she became interested the arts, and in film in particular.[6]

She felt frustrated at the lack of representation or the misrepresentation of Asian women and immigrants in film.[6]

Khurana was part of an influential group of South Asian academics and activists working in New York in the mid-1990s.[8]

Khurana holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an Master of Education from Harvard University, a Master in Fine Arts in Film from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.[1][3][6][4][9]

Career

Sarita Khurana is a filmmaker and cultural producer. Khurana's work in narrative, documentary and experimental film has been screened and exhibited internationally at the Tribeca Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, BFI London Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, and at the American Film Institute Docs Festival. Khurana has received numerous awards, and fellowships over her career including the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. Her work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, Asian American Documentary Network, the International Documentary Association, the Center for Asian American Media, NALIP-Diverse Women in Media, the National Film Development Corp of India, Women in Film, Film Independent, NY Women in Film & Television, the New York Times, and the Asian Women's Giving Circle.[1][3][5][6][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Films

A Suitable Girl (2017) 1hr 30 minutes

A Suitable Girl follows three young women in India as they struggle to follow their dreams amid familial and cultural pressures to get married. Ritu, Dipti and Amrita are educated, financially stable contemporary middle-class women living in Mumbai and New Delhi. Yet their lives take a dramatic turn when the pressure to settle down and get married hits. Documenting the matchmaking process in vérité over four years, A Suitable Girl examines the complex relationships between marriage, family, and culture.

A Suitable Girl was co-directed by Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra. They met in film school at Columbia University connecting over their similar Indian backgrounds and wanted to create a film that explored the complexities of arranged marriages. They followed Dipti, Amrita, and Ritu over four years as they navigated their daily lives, careers, families, and friends.

A Suitable Girl, premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017 and won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award. Khurana and Mundra were the first Desi women to earn the New Documentary Director Award. [1][2][3][9][13][14][15][16][18]

What Remains (2010) 14min

What Remains follows the story of a woman who returns to her childhood home only to discover an unsettling past. This experimental film written and directed in collaboration with contemporary visual artist Chitra Ganesh.[5][19][20]

B.E.S. (Bangla East Side) (2004) 45 minutes

B.E.S. is a documentary that focuses that ways working-class Bangladeshi immigrant youth remap the geography of downtown Manhattan and create new spaces that link their memories of Dhaka with their everyday realities living in New York City. This documentary film was directed in Collaboration with Fariba Alam.[21] B.E.S. documents the lives of four Bangladeshi Muslim teenagers living in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Mahfuja, Maroofa, Saleh and Jemi immigrated to New York as children, and as all four of them are juniors and seniors at a public high school. The directors, came to the school to videotape the students, but also gave the students cameras to film each other. Living in a post-911 New York, these young immigrants are acutely conscious of their embodiment of racial and religious difference.[21][22][23]

Cine Qua Non Lab

Sarita Khurana is the co-founder of Cine Qua Non Lab, an international development lab for narrative feature films, based in Mexico and the U.S.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bender, Abbey (2018). "A Suitable Girl". Pine Magazine. No 2: 108–110. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ a b Rao, Sameer (2017-04-28). "Award-Winning Desi Directors Tackle Arranged Marriage Stigma in 'A Suitable Girl'". COLORLINES. Retrieved 2020-05-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b c d Hubbard, Sally (2018-10-23). "Women Killing It". Women You Should Know®. Retrieved 2020-04-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b c Hammonds, Loren. "A Suitable Girl". Tribeca Film Festival.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b c "Tribeca 2017 Women Directors". womenandhollywood.com. Retrieved 2020-01-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Cultural Journey Spotlight". Heartland Film. 2017-08-14. Retrieved 2018-10-19.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Sarita Khurana". Columbia University.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Khandelwal, Madhulika S. (Aug 6, 2018). Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801440432.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  9. ^ a b ""A Suitable Girl"". MIT.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ September 25, Nalip on; 2015. "NALIP Announces 10 Selected Projects for 2015 Diverse Women in Media Residency Lab at Artist Retreat Center in Vermont, October 3-11". NALIP. Retrieved 2020-05-20. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "2020 CAAM FELLOWS". CAAM Home. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  12. ^ "Asian Women Giving Circle Gives $78,000 in Grants to Nine NYC-Based Artists and Projects". Ms. Foundation for Women. 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  13. ^ a b Choudhury, Bedatri Datta (2018-05-28). "Three Weddings and a Documentary". Vice. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  14. ^ a b "Heart of the Matter". The Indian Express. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  15. ^ a b Shattuck, Kathryn (April 6, 2018). "Film: 'A Suitable Girl'". New York Times.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ a b Das, Kavita (May 2, 2017). "India has changed a lot in 70 years. But arranged marriage remains the norm". The Washington Post.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "Asian American Documentary Network". A-DOC.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ "Directors use film to speak on social issues at 2017 Tribeca Film Festival". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  19. ^ "Brooklyn Museum: Art Off the Wall: Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  20. ^ "What Remains (2010)". imdb.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ a b Shankar, Lavina Dhingra; Dhingra, Lavina; Cheung, Floyd (2012). Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Canons and Controversies. Lexington Books. p. 89. ISBN 9780739169971.
  22. ^ Bakirathi, Dr. Mani. "Becoming South Asian in America". Swarthmore College.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ^ "Critically-acclaimed Documentary on Arranged Marriage". www.twn.org. Retrieved 2018-10-19. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)


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