Bollywood Terror played at the South Side Film Festival in Bethlehem, PA, last June. Now, the town of Bethlehem is holding an ArtsFest with art, music, installations and films. Hence the re-screening.

Thursday April 7th 7:45pm to 10pm
Packard Lab Auditorium, Lehigh University
Behtlehem, PA.

Bollywood Terror and Acting Like a Thief are being screened as part of MS Films Festival in Durham, North Carolina. On Friday, February 23.

Niku Arbabi, the festival director was interviewed on NPR regarding the festival. There are nice articles in the News Observer, and the Venus Magazine.

Bollywood Terror will be screening as part of the opening of the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art here in New York City. If you plan to attend please say hello, I will be attending the February 9 screening.

Thursday, February 9, 6pm
Saturday March 11 at 4:00pm

Roy and Niuta Titus Theater at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497

Click here for ticketing information. And here for directions.

Acting Like a Thief is being screened in several cities as part of the Tri Continental Film Festival. Journalist Dilip D’Souza and author of Branded By Law: Looking at India’s Denotified Tribes will be available for discussion in Mumbai, and playwright Dakxin Bajrange will be attending the screening in Bangalore.

Jan. 27, 10:30 am, Little Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai
Jan. 31, 10:30 am, Alliance Francaise, Bangalore
Feb. 1, 9:15 pm, South Indian Film Chamber Theatre, Chennai

We are very pleased to announce that Kurt Engfehr has agreed to be an advisor on the film. Kurt was co-producer and editor on both Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 911. Not only did those two films win an Oscar and a Golden Palm, but Kurt’s editing work on Columbine also earned him the American Cinema Editors’ Eddie award. His support and advice means a lot to us. His critical eye will help us keep Hooch And Hamlet In Chharanagar clear, honest, and engaging.

Almost Half Way There!

We’ve raised $6,816 so far! Thank you everyone. That puts us about a grand shy of the half way mark as we move towards our $15,000 budget. If you haven’t given yet, we’ve made it even easier to donate. You can now make a secure, tax-deductible, donation with your credit card online! ($20 min.)

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Sonia Faleiro of Tehelka has written a very good essay on Chharanagar, where we are quoted and our film project gets a plug! You can read the article on her blog. If you get hold of the print edition, the lead photo is by Kerim.

Tarun Jain has written an article for India Together on Budhan Theatre and our film project, Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar. Check it out!

Announcing Acting Like a Thief! Now available as a free BitTorrent download or, for a $50 donation, as a DVD.

Acting Like a Thief is a short film about the Budhan Theatre of Chharanagar. Starting with playwright Dakxin Bajrange discussing his arrest , the film brings us inside the lives of a dedicated group of young actors and their families as they discuss what it means to be a “born criminal” and how theater changed their lives.

More to Come!

Although we are releasing it as a self-contained movie, Acting Like a Thief is a preview of a larger project: Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar. We are raising funds to go back to India and film more so that we can get this story out to a wider audience.

If you like Acting Like a Thief, please help support Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar.

Kerim redesigned the Hooch and Hamlet website.

For those who don’t know, this is for our documentary project in Ahmedabad, India. Check it out.

Writing has been spotty on the blog for a while and here is the reason. This December, Kerim and I are going to India to shoot a documentary film about the residents of one city’s slum who are using theatre to fight back against decades of prejudice and police oppression.

Help us tell their story.

Even though we are paying our own way to India, we need to raise $15,000 to cover expenses for the shoot: transportation in India, accommodation, salaries for the people who will help us on the shoot, equipment rentals, etc. We’ve already raised $3,000, but we need to do much more.

Kerim wrote about the people of Chharanager after our last trip. You can read more about the film, the people and organizations involved, and how to give money, or the film’s web site. And here is a Flickr photo gallery of Chharanager pics.

Thank you.

PS: If you can offer support in the way of help with web/graphic design, promotion, advertising, or just posting this information on your own blog, that will be much appreciated as well!