The South Asian House initiative, which goals to focus on, acknowledge and admire South Asians in movie and tv, has partnered with the Islamic Scholarship Fund to current programming on the 2025 Tribeca Festival, marking a big collaboration for South Asian, Arab and Muslim illustration within the leisure business.
The partnership will current a collection of panels, mixers and cultural occasions throughout competition week, with assist from the Brown Girl Clubhouse, a neighborhood platform for South Asian girls. Programming is designed to champion illustration in movie, tv and media whereas creating areas for connection and inventive celebration.
Key occasions embrace a June 3 filmmakers occasion offered by the Arab Film and Media Institute at MadamJi, and a June 4 “Filmmakers & chai” gathering on the Brown Girl Clubhouse.
Industry talks will function South Asian House founder and Box Office Guru Media’s Rohi Mirza Pandya, Academy member Hemal Trivedi, leisure lawyer Maaha Khan, Arab Film and Media Institute managing director Maya Labban, musician-actor Samrat Chakrabarti, filmmaker-actor Aizzah Fatima, and comic Atheer Yacoub.
Spotlight conversations will embrace filmmakers from Tribeca-selected movies “Pinch,” directed by Uttera Singh, and “Poreless,” produced by and starring Akbar Hamid and co-written by Fawzia Mirza.
ISF, the primary U.S. grant-giving group supporting filmmakers telling Muslim tales, will curate a brief movie screening on the BG Clubhouse that includes work by Kausar Mohammad, Habib Yazdi, Fatimah Asghar and extra filmmakers to be introduced.
“We’re thrilled to partner with the BG Clubhouse, AFMI and ISF to create a home for South Asian, Arab and Muslim stories and storytellers during Tribeca,” stated Pandya. “This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to fostering community, breaking barriers, and celebrating the richness of our cultures.”
South Asian House will even return to the Tribeca Festival AT&T Untold Stories Lounge with a panel titled “Drafting Complex Stories in a Simplified World” on June 11. Pandya and ISF artist growth and partnerships supervisor Aizzah Fatima are producing the dialogue, which is able to concentrate on the rising significance of supporting complicated, female-driven narratives in movie and tv.
The panel goals to deal with how inclusive storytelling creates deeper viewers connections and fuels new media views, serving as a name to motion for extra significant illustration and better alternatives for girls in filmmaking.
Founded by Pandya and Monika Samtani, South Asian House creates celebratory areas for South Asian communities at main festivals and cultural occasions. ISF, established in 2009, works to raise American Muslim storytelling in media and increase entry to justice and illustration for underrepresented communities.
