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 F3 - Hiding Divya, Gandhi at the Bat
Synopsis F3 - FEATURE -Hiding Divya - 88 Mins; Gandhi at th e Bat -11 Mins
Hiding Divya (Narrative Feature)
88 mins, 2006, English
Screening: Friday, Nov 3, 6pm
Courthouse, Anthology Film Archives
3 2 East 2nd Street (corner of 2nd Avenue) New York City
Cast: Madhur Jaffrey, Pooja Kumar
Synopsis: Upon the death of her uncle John, Palini "Linny" Shah (33) returns home with her daughter Jia (16) to attend his funeral. Estranged from her mother Divya Shah since her teenage pregnancy, Linny, until now, has resisted being pulled into painful memories of her mother's mental illness during her youth. Upon arriving at her childhood home Linny discovers that she is entitled to an inheritance of $20,000, but she must wait two weeks before she can collect. Otherwise penniless, Linny has no choice but to wait it out at her mother's home. The two women, Divya and Linny, fall into their old routine of concerned mother and rebellious daughter. But soon things go from ordinary to extraordinary as Divya exhibits signs of serious mental illness. Jia tries to gain an understanding of her grandmother's illness, while Linny tries to shelter her daughter from it. Soon the dynamic of disappointment and mistrust that is ever present between Divya and Linny replicates itself between Linny and Jia. And it is only when her own daughter Jia begins to show signs of self-mutilation, that Linny is forced to confront her past in the context of her horrifying present. With the help of an old family friend, Ravi Das (35), Linny begins to accept the responsibilities of being a daughter and as a consequence learns what it is to be a mother. In taking on her past, Linny discovers her future.
Director: Rehana Mirza
Mirza, who is currently an MFA Candidate in Playwriting at Columbia University, is also a Leopold Schepp Scholar, an LMCC Artist Grant Recipient, and a member of the Ma-Yi Writer's Lab. She has many film direction and screenwriting projects to her credit and is best known for her play, ‘ Barriers’ and her script, 'Quarter Life Crisis'.
Gandhi at the Bat (Narrative Short)
11 mins, 2006, English
Screening: Friday, Nov 3, 6pm
Courthouse, Anthology Film Archives
32 East 2nd Street (corner of 2nd Avenue) New York City
Cast: Delfin Labao,Lee Perkins, David Ross Paterson
Synopsis: Gandhi at the Bat is a newsree-style account of the little known (and totally fictional) incident when Mohandas K. Gandhi pinch-hit for the New York Yankees in 1933. Based on a short story by Chet Wiliamson that originally appeared in the New Yorker in 1983, Gandhi at the Bat is a faifthful recreation of a 1930s-style newsreel. The 110minute movie includes over 75 effects shots, done by the directors themselves which transform the actual shooting location (a minor league ballpark in Bakersfield, California) into a faifthful recreation of Yankee Stadium as it was over seventy years ago.
Director: Stephanie Argy/Alec Boehm
Argy and Boehm have recently completed the short film, 'Scene', and are in pre-production on their first feature, a caper movie set in 1937 called ‘Red Machine’. While Argy has written for movie trade magazines and websites, Boehm has worked as a cameraman on numerous commercials, short films and a feature documentary.
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