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Femme (2013)
Character: Self
A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.
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Lights, Action, Music (2007)
Character: Self
A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern greats.
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The 4%: Film's Gender Problem (2016)
Character: Self
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
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Solace in the Dark (2011)
Character: Self
A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses (2016)
Character: Self
Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
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Restoring the Apu Trilogy (2015)
Character: Self
In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though there were no technologies available at the time capable of fully restoring such badly damaged film elements, the Academy Film Archive held on to them. And now times have changed.
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Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded (2011)
Character: Herself
A sequel to the 1988 award winning documentary, "Slaying the Dragon," this film looks at the past 25 years of representation of Asian and Asian American women in U.S. visual media -- from blockbuster films and network television to Asian American cinema and YouTube -- to explore what's changed, what's been recycled, and what we can hope for in the future.
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The Many Miracles of Household Saints (2024)
Character: Self
In keeping with the intergenerational magic of 'Household Saints', filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling new documentary, 'The Many Miracles of Household Saints', revealing the improbable story behind the making of the film.
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India Cabaret (1985)
Character: Interviewer
An exploration of the 'respectable' and 'immoral' stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of two striptease dancers in a Bombay cabaret.
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The Perez Family (1995)
Character: Woman buying Flowers
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.
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This Changes Everything (2019)
Character: Self
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
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Mississippi Masala (1991)
Character: Gossip Aunty #1
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African-American communities.
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So Far from India (1983)
Character: Interviewer/Narrator
Two years after his arranged marriage and emigration to the United States, a young husband returns to India to reunite with his wife, meet his infant son, and visit his family and in-laws before going back to New York City.
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My Own Country (1998)
Character: N/A
In 1985, East Indian disease specialist Abraham Verghese settles in Johnson City, TN, where his compassion and nonjudgmental treatment brings a sense of comfort to those living with AIDS.
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Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers (2004)
Character: Self
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
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Bollywood Calling (2001)
Character: Mira
An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.
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