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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

3 April Sunday, 6pm

Behind Closed Doors is a collection of short “documentary” style films that lifts the curtain and shows the exciting, witty, often poignant “behind the scenes” side of otherwise typical, everyday, ordinary lives.

Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
Sonali Gulati | 2005 | 27 min | video | USA
A documentary about the outsourcing of American jobs to India. Through a personal and political lens, an Indian American woman travels to her homeland to explore the lives of Indian telemarketers. Using humor and satire, we get a peek into the lives of these operators in the telephone support industry who undergo voice training to be able to speak to their US customers with the appropriate regional American accent. At the same time, we get to know who’s on the other end of the line.

Muslim Boarders
Omar Mendoza Mahmood | 2005 | 19 min | video | USA
Snowboarding is not haram. A unique intersection of Western culture and the Islamic world, Muslim American
snowboarders struggle to balance cultural identities, negotiating what is acceptable in their religious tradition and the need to express their extreme sides.

My Break Ups Into a Million Pieces
Amir Motlagh | 2006 |16 mins | video | USA
A young Filipina wanders through Southern California to deal with the death of her famous father, artist Santiago Bose. From an Asian perspective, she goes on an exploration
of personal and spiritual identity, death, separation, romantic relationships and the myth of Americana.

Comrade Dad
Karin Lee | 2005 | 27 min | video | CAN
Set around a small Communist bookstore within the political
landscape of Canada and China at the time of the cultural revolution, Comrade Dad tells the little known story about how a segment of Vancouver’s Chinese community embraced Socialism and how their idealism was affected by the changing politcial climate in China. In this unconventional documentary, director Karin Lee weaves together biographical, autobiographical and historical to tell the story about the ideological beliefs of her father and the effect it had on his family.

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