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June 1 - 3 - South Asian Film Festival Wash DC Spotlight: Interview with Samrat Chakrabarti, award winning actor and composer
This weekend, Samrat Chakrabarti is one of the special guests at the inaugural Washington D.C. South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF 2012), sponsored by Ceasar Productions, which runs from Friday, June 1st, through Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 at the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland. The Festival brings together a wide variety of films from across South Asia and and includes films in Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali, and Telegu.
Samrat Chakrabarti Photo by Lia Chang
Samrat
Chakrabarti
is
featured
in
Ajay
Naidu’s Ashes which
screens
on
Saturday,
June
2
at
noon,
Italo
Spinelli’s
gritty
and
disturbing Gangor,
and
Shome
Banerjee’s
experimental
David
Lynchian
short Hotel
New
York
2012,
which
both
screen
on
Sunday,
June
3
at
noon.
Clickhere to
purchase
tickets.
Shyam Benegal (Director of Well Done Abba!, Zubeidaa, Kalyug), Ketan Mehta (Director of Mangal Pandey, Mirch Masala, Maya), Deepti Naval (Memories in March, Firaaq, Shakti), Rajit Kapur (Guzaarish, Well Done Abba!, Zubeidaa), and Raima Sen (Memories in March, The Japanese Wife, Teen Patti) are scheduled to attend.
KABC-TV's David Ono's "Witness: The Power of a Picture" 40th Anniversary of "Napalm Girl"
A
David
Ono
-
ABC7
Eyewitness
News
Special
KABC-TV
Los
Angeles
Travel with ABC7 Eyewitness News Anchor, David Ono to Vietnam on the 40th Anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize winning photo “Napalm Girl” which shows an innocent 9-year-old whose clothes were burned off her body by napalm during the Vietnam War.
Airing Saturday, June 2, at 6:30 p.m. PST
Highlights of David Ono's powerful documentary are online at KABC-TV's website. The documentary initially aired on KABC-TV June 2, at 630 p.m. PST.
A photograph allows us to deeply examine a split second in time. It’s an opportunity to freeze the world and absorb all the emotions, actions, consequences that are attached to that moment. Photographer Nick Ut’s “Napalm Girl” did exactly that. We saw an innocent child whose clothes were burned off her body, running naked, in seething pain. Children, caught in the cross fire, would forever have an indelible face - Kim Phuc.That moment changed us, providing a sobering clarity to how quickly innocent life can be shattered by war. KABC-TV's David Ono travels back to Trang Bang, where, 40 years ago, a 21 year old photographer and a 9 year old girl collide to create one of the most important images of the 20th
Jeremy Lin reports on his Facebook page his knee is healed and he's ready to start training again
Jeremy
Lin
reported
on
Saturday
June
2
on
his
Facebook
page
that
his
knee
is
healthy
and
he's
ready
to
start
training
again.
His
Facebook
page
shows
a
happy
Lin
holding
a
freshly
caught
marlin,
which
he
caught
and
released
on
a
vacation
in
Cabo
San
Lucas,
Mexico.
Photo
credit:
Jeremy
Lin's
Facebook
page
Jeremy Lin plays in-home scavenger hunt with Jimmy Kimmel via Skype
June 12, 2012
TV late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel sent NBA stars Jeremy Lin and Roy Hibbert on an in-home scavenger hunt via Skype. During the contest Lin confirmed his knee was "good to go" confirming his successful recovering from knee surgery. Click here to view the video excerpt from the Jimmy Kimmel Live talk show.