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Kabir Cultural Centre collection ➔ [Poster detailing the screening of My Mother India at Kabir Cultural Centre's Inaugural Film Show, Montreal, Quebec]

Item
Identifier:
2023_01_01_001
Repository
Repository Web Site
https://www.centrekabir.com/en/
Repository Identifier
Film My Mother India 7th July 2004
Date
July 7 2004;Date(s) of creation
Creator
Extent
1 poster
Format
ephemera
Description
Poster detailing the screening of Safina Uberoi's 2001 documentary My Mother India at Kabir Cultural Centre's Inaugural Film Show in Montreal, Quebec. My Mother India is a documentary film about Patricia Uberoi, an Australian woman who moved to India with her Indian husband and started a multi-cultural family before anti-Sikh tensions pushed her leave with her family to Australia. Safina Uberoi is an Australian-Indian filmmaker known for directing documentaries. She has been active since 2001.
Location
Canada;Quebec;Montreal
Language
English
Notes
Film is in English. 52 mins. Screening was followed by a panel discussion. "Patricia Uberoi, an Australian woman, married an Indian professor in the 60s and moved to his home in New Delhi. They raised three children there, but the riots and the anti-Sikh feelings led to her encouraging her children to move to Australia. A documentary about a multicultural family becomes a commentary on the events surrounding the anti-Sikh riots of 1984." - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307206/ "Safina Uberoi is known for My Mother India (2001), A Good Man (2009) and Hybrid Life (2001)." - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119903/?ref_=tt_ov_dr "Vijaya Mulay is a veteran in the field of Educational Documentary films in her native India. She taught Education in Patna University and subsequently worked in the Ministry of Education. She retired as the Head of the Centre for Educational Technology where she did pioneering work in using satellite communication to reach backward areas. She is the recepient of many national and international awards for her films and has been honoured with two lifetime achievement awards. Currently she is doing research for the National Film Archive of India." -Kabir Cultural Centre "Dr. Jaswant Guzder is a third generation Sikh in Canada. She grew up on the Vancouver Island on the West Coast and studied Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Montreal as well as Medicine at McGill. As an artist, her works are inspired, among others, by working with refugees and migrants and the theme of family reunification. In the field of Medicine, she is curently the Head of Child Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital and Associate Professor at McGill in Psychiatry affiliated with divisions of Child and Transcultural Pyschiatry." -Kabir Cultural Centre "Thomas Waugh is a Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. He is also involved in the programme in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality. An expert on sexual representation as well as on documentary and Canadian cinema, he has been researching and teaching Indian Cinema as well as lecturing in India since the 1980s. His publications on Indian and diasporic cinema cover such wide-ranging themes as the cultural and political inflections of Direct Cinema in Indian Independent Documentary, male ‘homosociality’ in Indian parallel cinema and ‘patterns of sexual subversion’ in Indian Cinema." -Kabir Cultural Centre *Date listed refers to date of performance.
Rights Statement
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Subject Headings - Library of Congress
Documentary films [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088115];Posters [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001723]