Mata Directed
by
William Graham U S A / 2006 / 11minutes In Hindi, and English
Screening
Times and Venues:
This film is one of many short films in the short program MOM?... POP?.
Upstate Films II
10/13/2006, 4:15PM
$5
Woodstock Community Center
10/15/2006, 1:00PM
$8
SYNOPSIS:
When a suburban Indian mother finds out her son has been brutalized at school, she takes matters into her own hands. In her sari and white sneakers, she lumbers to the bully's house and delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. At once a complex character study and an electric action dramedy, Kali Ma takes a profound look at the secrets that divide mothers and sons, and the love that ultimately brings them together.
BIO:
Will currently serves as the Creative Director of "The Onion," where he regularly directs long and short form web video. He served as the resident director for the Kumage Theater Company in Tanegashima, Japan, where he directed six productions in Japanese. He also served as the directing resident at the New York Theatre Workshop for one year, and his production of "Love and Happiness" received the Scotsman Fringe First award at the 2001 Edinborough Fringe Festival. Will is an advisor to PBS for an initiative to revolutionize the public school Civics curriculum. "Mata" is his first film.
MAIN CREDITS:
Cast/Featuring:
Anamika Sarkar, Neil Shastri, Ryan Nunn
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