Monthly Archives: December 2005

Labor of Birth

December 25th, 2005 | 8 Comments

It is Christmas Eve in the world. I am at home with my family after many months. I finally have a moment to reflect.

Since September, I have lived a split life. On weekdays, I am in Boston keeping up appearances as a graduate student at Harvard Divinity, and on weekends, I am a filmmaker in Los Angeles, working in a tiny editing room on our documentary. We are in the final phase… Continue Reading

 

Sneak Preview, California

December 18th, 2005 | Leave a comment

Today, California’s first Spinning Wheel Film Festival was held in Orange County, California. On the eve of the festival, the Sikh Center of Orange County held a gala banquet and organizer Bicky Singh invited us to offer a SNEAK PREVIEW of Divided We Fall. Our director/editor/producer extraordinaire Sharat Raju cut together a brand-new seven-minute trailer, weaving together voices and faces from the film with music from the film’s original score created by composer… Continue Reading

 

First Draft at Harvard

December 9th, 2005 | 2 Comments


Today Dr. Diana Eck and the Harvard Pluralism Project hosted a screening of the rough cut of the documentary at Harvard University (pictured above). We first screened the rough cut to a Sikh audience at the Spinning Wheel Film Festival in Toronto. This screening would be different. At an invitation-only event, we gathered classmates, friends, professors, and staff at Harvard to watch the cut and offer feedback.

When introducing theContinue Reading