Bite-sized blog post: Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha

GURINDER CHADA was a BBC news reporter who made award winning documentaries in England before her fiction feature film Bend It Like Beckham (2002) became a US (and international) success.

She continues to direct for the screen and has recently turned Bend It Like Beckham into a stage musical.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

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The Guardian Articles
British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha to make film on events leading to Partition
Telegraph interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2006Paris, je t’aime (segment “Quais de Seine”)
 1995Rich Deceiver (TV Movie)
 1994A Nice Arrangement (Short)
 1992Acting Our Age (Short)
 1992Pain, Passion and Profit (Video documentary)
 1990I’m British But… (TV Short documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Mira Nair

Mira Nair

MIRA NAIR began her career as a documentarian and then went on to make fiction films including one of Denzel Washington’s first features Mississippi Masala (1991).

Born and raised in India, Nair moved to the United States to study on a scholarship at Harvard before embarking on her film career.

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Where to watch her films:

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HULU

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Encyclopedia Britannica
Lupita Nyong’o Will Star in Mira Nair’s ‘Queen of Katwe’ Film Adaptation (On Ugandan Chess Prodigy Phiona Mutesi)
MOVIE REVIEW: MIRA NAIR’S THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014Words with Gods (segment “God Room”)
 2009Amelia
 20088 (segment “How can it be?”)
 2008New York, I Love You (segment “Mira Nair”)
 2008/IMigration (Short)
 2002September 11 (segment “India”)
 2002Hysterical Blindness (TV Movie)
 2001The Laughing Club of India (TV Short documentary)
 1998My Own Country (TV Movie)
 1987Children of a Desired Sex (TV Movie documentary)
 1985India Cabaret (TV Movie documentary)
 1983So Far from India (Documentary)
 1979Jama Masjid Street Journal (Documentary)