Date: July 7th 2008

3rd I Films present two July events


3rd I Bollywood Sound & Image, Part III
Wednesday, July 9, 7:30-9pm

3rd I presents the final presentation in its three-part series of lectures focused on the sound and music of Bollywood throughout the decades this coming Wednesday, July 9th, focusing on the music of three legendary music directors: Naushad, S.D. Burman and R.D. Burman.

Music videos and clips from Bollywood films will be shown, supplemented with historical & political insights & analysis, and tabla performances by Robin Sukhadia. There will be Q&A session after. Learn about Bollywood's famed film composers, playback singers, arrangers, and steeped musical history. There will be song and dance numbers, whimsical musical arrangements, gaudy colors, and melodramatic love scenes without any kissing on screen, of course.

Bollyhood Cafe
3372 19th Street at Mission Street, San Francisco
Cost: $5 at the door (limited seating so come early)
http://thirdi.org

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3rd I Films and Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center & Trikone

present two films on HIV and sexuality in the South Asian communities in the US and abroad. A Q&A will follow the films.

5:00pm Saturday, July 26th

– Migration, Mira Nair (India/2007/18 min).
Nair's film deals with AIDS as the great class leveler in society by following its transmission through interweaving stories linking urban and rural India. A rural laborer leaves his wife for work in Bombay, where he gets mixed up in a dangerous triangle with a frustrated wife and her closeted husband.

– Summer in My Veins by Nish Saran (USA, 1999, 41m).
A gay Indian filmmaker travels across American with his visiting family, as he struggles to come out to them. He was tested for HIV before undertaking this trip and will not receive his results until they return to India. Under the threat of terminal illness, made very real by an unsafe encounter with an HIV-positive man, the filmmaker explores the dynamics of secrecy and love that mark this very close family. Pushing the limits of personal documentary every moment, every achingly intimate moment including coming out to his mother -- is caught on tape.


Bollyhood Cafe
3372 19th Street at Mission Street, San Francisco
http://thirdi.org