{"id":428,"date":"2004-09-24T20:23:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T01:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=428"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"dueling_film_fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/dueling_film_fe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dueling film festivals in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indo-American Arts Council is opening its annual film festival with a swank cocktail party and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000345.html\"><i>Bride and Prejudice<\/i><\/a> screening at Lincoln Center <a href=\"http:\/\/iaac.us\/Indian%20Diaspora%20Film%20Festival%202004\/home.htm\">on Nov. 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"SAIFF.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/SAIFF.gif\" width=\"137\" height=\"77\" border=\"0\" align=left hspace=20 \/>But, an upstart challenger with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saiff.org\/program.html\">a slick Web site<\/a> and little by way of details, the South Asian International Film Festival, is <i>also<\/i> opening with that film on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n\n<p>Be still my beating heart, &#8217;tis desi indie overdose. And that&#8217;s not even including the regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdi.org\/~ny\">Third I<\/a> screenings. But can anyone shed light on the SAIFF: does it have a different mission than IAAC&#8217;s film fest, is it a desi version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiancinevision.org\/\">Asian-American<\/a> one? Or is this yet another internecine schism, like the duplicate, competing Indian Independence Day celebrations all over the country?<\/p>\n\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> I emailed the SAIFF organizers. Heard back from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somanchainani.com\/\">Soman Chainani<\/a>, who used to work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirabaifilms.com\">Mira Nair&#8217;s production company<\/a>. He says the festival is focused on films about South Asia, while the IAAC focuses on the diaspora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indo-American Arts Council is opening its annual film festival with a swank cocktail party and a Bride and Prejudice screening at Lincoln Center on Nov. 4. But, an upstart challenger with a slick Web site and little by way &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/dueling_film_fe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}