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NISA wins at The Writers Ink Screenwriting Lab
My feature length screenplay - Nisa (Woman) won The Emerging Voice in Indian Cinema Award -"With her film Nisa, Ambarien takes us through...
ambarien
Apr 18, 20241 min read
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The Calligrapher at Penn Museum, Wolf Humanities Center, Philadelphia
Filmed over two days while visiting family in Old Delhi, The Calligrapher is a sensory experience in the studio of one of the few...
ambarien
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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1497 Unveils Finalists For Features Lab To Bolster South Asian Voices
My magic-realist, feature length narrative screenplay- Bird Woman, is a finalist at the 1497 Screenwriting Lab. Read More: Diaspora Coverfly
ambarien
Feb 2, 20221 min read
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Bird Woman at Stowe Story Labs
My feature length screenplay- Bird Woman; the story of a far away father, a daughter and a magical creature from their past; is a...
ambarien
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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Frank J. Romano Endowed Prize
Thrilled that our work on Sultana's Dream won The Frank J. Romano Endowed Prize, Rochester Institute of Technology.
ambarien
May 22, 20211 min read
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Sultana's Dream
Sultana’s Dream is a speculative fiction film based on a 1905 feminist utopia story written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a Muslim...
ambarien
May 22, 20211 min read
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SAGindie Finalist
Bird Woman (Feature Length, Narrative) is a SAGindie finalist at The Stowe Story Labs! This is truly an honor since I've really admired...
ambarien
Apr 5, 20211 min read
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Loss and Transience: An Exhibition of Moving Image Artworks and Documentary Films from India
Film Still: The Ghetto Girl. India-USA 2013 The Ghetto Girl is part of an Exhibition at The Hong-Gah-Museum, Taiwan, that brings a...
ambarien
Feb 27, 20212 min read
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Film Screening
Three of my recent films- Ayesha, The Ghetto Girl and Who Can Speak of Men? are screening at The I View World Human Rights Film Festival....
ambarien
Dec 12, 20201 min read
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Farsight Fridays with Farah Bala
The South Asian diaspora refers to the people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, who,...
ambarien
Nov 21, 20201 min read
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International Documentary Association, Getting Real '20
Thanks to the wonderful Anam Abbas, Filmmaker, Producer and Co-Founder of Documentary Association of Pakistan who invited me onto this...
ambarien
Oct 16, 20201 min read
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What does it mean to live under the constant fear of being declared a foreigner in your own country?
Read article published on The Polis Project
ambarien
Jul 27, 20201 min read
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Mentoring Women Filmmakers in India
Through this first of its kind Harvard University supported leadership incubator for Muslim women, am Advisor-in-Residence, mentoring...
ambarien
Jul 8, 20201 min read
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Filmmaking and Activism
I had an engaging conversation about my work with the Rochester Documentary Filmmakers' Group. Featuring some wonderful projects and...
ambarien
Jun 20, 20201 min read
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Filmmaking as Art & Activism
Join me for a panel on presenting my work in progress on the surveillance of Muslim communities of color.
ambarien
Jun 17, 20201 min read
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Selected to The Athena Screenwriting Lab, NYC!
My work in progress screenplay has been selected to The Athena Screenwriters Lab NYC 2019! It will be mentored by writer-producer Ligiah...
ambarien
Jun 9, 20201 min read
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Shortlisted at Sundance!
My work in progress screenplay is shortlisted at The Sundance Screenwriters' Lab 2018!
ambarien
Jun 9, 20201 min read
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Artist Talk at The Frameless Labs, Magic Spell Studios
Presenting Experiments in Transmedia Storytelling at The Frameless Labs Symposium MAGIC Spell Studios, 2018.
ambarien
Jun 9, 20201 min read
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Selected as a Mid Atlantic Creative Arts Fellow
Selected as a Mid Atlantic Creative Arts Fellow 2017!
ambarien
Jun 9, 20201 min read
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Artist Residency at The Virginia Center for The Creative Arts
Headed to The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for a three-week, fully supported summer residency to work on a feature adaptation of...
ambarien
Jun 9, 20201 min read
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