Date: June 10th 2008

3rd i Films --Wed June 11 evening event & much more


1. Wed June 11, 7:30PM - Bollywood Sound and Image seminar
2. The Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
3. 3rd I Co-Presents ‘’The World Unseen’’at Frameline’s SF LGBT Festival
4. Actress Shetal Sheth in person
5. 3rd I presents at the Asha festival of Hope: The New Heroes: India
6. The second part in this AIDS and Sexuality series is: Saturday.

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1) 3rd I presents Bollywood Sound & Image Part 2: June 11 @ 7:30 pm at Bollyhood Cafe

3rd I proudly presents a three-part series of seminars focused on the sound and music of Bollywood throughout the decades. The seminar on June 11th is the second in the series but also independent of the first event. The seminar will deal with Bollywood Sound & Image: 1980s through the present - RD Burman, Anandji & Kalyanji, AR Rahman, and more Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghosal, KK, and more.

The seminar will be presented by Robin Sukhadia (California Institute of the Arts and Ali Akbar College of Music). The program will include music videos and clips from Bollywood films projected on the big screen, with historical/political insights and performance demonstrations by Robin Sukhadia.

Learn about Bollywood’s famed film composers, playback singers, arrangers, and it’s steeped-with-glamour musical history. We promise song and dance, whimsical musical arrangements, gaudy colors and melodramatic love scenes -- all of this, of course, without any kissing on screen!

Date: 7:30-9:00 pm, Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Place: Bollyhood Café, 3372 19th Street at Mission, San Francisco http://bollyhood.org/
Admission: $5 at the door (limited seating come early)

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2.) 3rd I supports the 4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
with a focus on Pratibha Parmar on
Saturday, June 14 - 2:00 pm ; Brava Theater

PANEL & RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING: Pratibha Parmar
Panel Discussion: Representations of Queer API Women in the Media
Doors Open: 1:00 pm
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar has deeply influenced mixed-genre filmmaking since the 80's and continues to bring fresh representations of queer women of color to the screen. Our Retrospective Screening highlights three influential films: Khush, Bhangra Jig and Wavelengths.

Retrospective & Panel: $10-$20
Running Time: 90 minutes
Followed by Featured Q&A Panel with Pratibha Parma

http://www.qwocmap.org/festival2008/sched_date.html

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3.) 3rd I Co-presents at Frameline’s San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.: The World Unseen
Castro Theater, Fri- June 20, 6:30

The World Unseen
UK, 2007, 94 Minute Running Time
DIRECTOR: Shamim Sarif

The World Unseen
In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just beginning. Free-spirited Amina (Sheetal Sheth) has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a cafe with Jacob her Black business partner. When she meets Miriam (Lisa Ray), a young traditional wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind her. When Amina helps Miriam’s sister-in-law to hide from the police, a chain of events is set in motion that changes both women. From overcoming oppression to finding personal freedom, from the hardships of a loveless marriage to the hesitant joy of an unexpected love affair, The World Unseen transports the viewer to a vibrant, colourful world that is universal in its themes.

Sponsored by : www.deloitte.com

http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1334&FID=42
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4.) *Shetal Sheth in person.
Following the screening of The World Unseen
(as a 3rd I event ), there will an informal get together with actress
*Shetal Sheth www.sheetalsheth.com/

at Bollyhood café at 8:30pm.
, 3372 19th Street at Mission, San Francisco

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5.) 3rd I presents at the Asha festival of Hope:
The New Heroes: India

Kailash Satyarthi is determined to free millions of children from bonded labor, a form of slavery where a desperate family borrows money from a lender and is hands over a child as surety for funds that often cannot be repaid. Inderjit Khurana has established schools in the middle of crowded train platforms to reach poor children with no other access to education. Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and David Green make it possible for over two hundred thousand people a year to access free eye-surgery to prevent blindness.

June 21st, 4pm Bollyhood Café
Bollyhood Café, 3372 19th Street at Mission, San Francisco


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6.) 3rd I & API Wellness Center & Trikone will be jointly presenting a three-part series of film and discussion on AIDS and Sexuality in the South Asian Community: This is the second in a three-part series focused on AIDS and Sexuality.

July ,16th, (changed from June 28th) 7:00pm @ Bollyhood Café
Bollyhood Café, 3372 19th Street at Mission, San Francisco


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3rd I

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