October 2022
Pratibha Parmar Loves The Power Of Storytelling
Pratibha recounts getting the call to direct Queen Sugar on her birthday and counts it as the gift that keeps on giving.
September 2021
Conversation: Pratibha Parmar and Leigh Raiford on A PLACE OF RAGE
On the occasion of BAMPFA’s presentation of Pratibha Parmar’s A PLACE OF RAGE and the UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies’s yearlong celebration of the life and legacy of writer, activist, and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member June Jordan, director Pratibha Parmar and UC Berkeley Associate Professor of African American Studies Leigh Raiford discuss A PLACE OF RAGE.
February 2021
Promising Young Woman – Q&A
Hosted by Pratibha Parmar for the Mill Valley Film Festival with actress Carey Mulligan & director Emerald Fennell of multi award nominated film, Promising Young Woman.
March 2020
Pratibha Parmar Reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer For The Apocalypse Reading Room
Pratibha Parmar was asked to do a reading from her chosen book for The Apocalypse Reading Room, an on-site library curated by Ama Josephine Budge: a world of talking stories in the face of environmental and social collapse, a gathering of all the books we might need to change the end of the world…Pratibha chose Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
March 2020
London Indian Film Festival – Pratibha Parmar in conversation with the legendary actress Shabana Azmi.
Shabana Azmi shares golden insights into her five decade long career, where she has essayed numerous roles to perfection, in films like The Chess Players, Madame Sousatzka and City of Joy. Winner of numerous awards in Bollywood, she made waves internationally, with Deepa Mehta’s Fire, as a mainstream Indian actress showcasing a bold, controversial, pivotal LGBTQ+ role, that is timeless. More recently, she has dazzled in films like A Decent Arrangement, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Midnight’s Children. This In Conversation event is a meeting of brilliant minds, with our 2017 ICON award winner, British Asian director Pratibha Parmar, at the helm, in a voyage of discovery, for film lovers.
March 2013
WOW Festival – World Premiere of Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
After the world premiere screening, Mariella Frostrup chaired a Q&A discussion with Alice Walker and director Pratibha Parmar.
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