Interview:
Alka Bahnot,
Tripti Bhatnaga,
co-founders,
10th annual Indie Meme Film Festival
Celebrating 10 years of screening South Asian independent cinema for Austin audiences, the Indie Meme Film Festival runs in-person April 9-13 at the AFS Cinema and online May 2-4. The in-person festival’s soft opening begins at 6:30 p.m. April 9 with a members-only retrospective screening of the 1976 Indian drama Manthan (The Churning) followed at 6:30 p.m. April 10 with the Texas Shorts Program. The festival opens April 11 with the Indian thriller Kennedy and closes April 13 with the Indian family drama Boong. The festival also includes the animated drama The Glassworker; the narrative features Pooja, Sir, Little Jaffna, and Puratawn (The Ancient); and the documentaries And, Towards Happy Alleys, Back Then—The Story of Live Music in Bombay, and Agent of Happiness. Kennedy director Anurag Kashyap will also host the Indie Meme Master Class in filmmaking at 11 a.m. April 14 at the Rosette. The Indie Meme Virtual Film Festival runs May 2-4 and will feature And, Towards Happy Alleys, Back Then—The Story of Live Music in Bombay, and the online exclusives the documentary Land of Dreams and the narrative features Kherwal and Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman.
Aired: April 9, 2025. Web sites: http://www.indiememe.org https://www.facebook.com/indiememe/ |
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