Behind the Screen: All We Imagine as Light
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Join us for a Behind the Screen look at All We Imagine as Light.The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.
All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
About the Speakers
Priya Giri Desai is a producer and director of documentary films and television, including Emmy-nominated children’s series Postcards From Buster, Lovesick, an award-winning, feature-length documentary film set in India that had its world premiere at DOCNYC in 2017.
She now produces as a part of Prism Entertainment and current projects include the Oscar nominated documentary, To Kill a Tiger.
Priya co-founded The India Center Foundation and sits on the boards of the New York International Children’s Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles.
Sarah Pinto, a professor of anthropology at Tufts University, is a scholar of medical histories and cultures, focusing on how gender, kinship, caste, law, and everyday life intersect with medicine in South Asia.
Her most recent book, The Doctor and Mrs. A (Women Unlimited 2019/Fordham University Press 2020), describes the remarkable encounter between a young Punjabi woman and her psychoanalyst, Dev Satya Nand, in the years leading up to Independence and Partition.
Sarah earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College and her MA and PhD from Princeton University.
Smitha Radhakrishnan, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College, researches the everyday lives of women in India through ethnography and interviews, focusing on how especially marginalized women manage work, debt, and care.
Her book, Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India, received the 2023 Honorable Mention from the ASA Sex and Gender Section and the 2024 Alice Amsden Distinguished Book Honorable Mention.
She holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Erin Trahan is a filmmaker, reporter, critic, and educator specializing in independent film.
She has been a regular contributor to WBUR for more than a decade and recently released a short documentary about Massachusetts’ longest-serving governor, “Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy,” which will screen at the West Newton on March 26, 2025.
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$20
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