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International Premiere Screening Event and Filmmaker Conversation with Hank Willis Thomas

Celebrating a  new collaboration between Sundance Institute and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to use the power of creativity to create a golbal conversation about extreme hunger and poverty and the imaginative solutions people are creating to overcome these challenges. 

New works by Award-Winning Sundace Institute Alumni Filmmakers Ritesh Batra, Tod Lending, Mega Mylan, Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zama, and Hank Willis Thomas & Chris Mysers.

Tickets are available to all members. Send your requests for tickets to [email protected].  Seats will be issued on a 1st come 1st served basis. 

Sunday 27 April, 12.30pm - 1.30pm, Cineworld - O2 Arena

AFTER MY GARDEN GROWS
Director: Megan Mylan
India | Documentary
A young girl in rural India tills a small plot of land to feed her family and plant seeds of independence and financial freedom in her male dominated community. Director Megan Mylan directed and produced the Oscar-winning film Smile Pinki, which will broadcast on HBO and the Sundance Channel. Her film, Lost Boys of Sudan, had a 70-city theatrical release and a US television broadcast on PBS's POV.

AM I GOING TOO FAST?
Directors: Hank Willis Thomas, Christopher Myers
Kenya | Experimental Doc
Am I Going Too Fast? is a digital tapestry of the intersecting worlds and interactions of craftspeople, shopkeepers, and ordinary folks whose lives have been transformed by new technologies, cell phone banking, and micro-finance; threads that weave together to form a web of connection and possibility in contemporary Nairobi. Hank Willis Thomas is the creator of Question Bridge: Black Males, a non-fiction new media project and recipient of a New Media Fellowship, New Media Fund grant from the Tribeca Film Institute and Aperture West Book Prize. Co-Director Christopher Myers is an artist and writer best known for his books for young people which have garnered Caldecott Honors and been shortlisted for the National Book Award.

KOMBIT
Directors: Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman
Haiti | Documentary
Haiti's internally displaced people start a microgarden movement to combat post-earthquake hunger and despair.  Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman produced and directed the feature documentary Remote Area Medical, which premiered at the 2013 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and was supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Programme.

THE MASTERCHEF
Director: Ritesh Batra
India | Narrative
Akhil, a young shoeshine boy, dreams of becoming a gourmet chef when he has a chance encounter with India's most popular TV cuisiner. Director Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It won the Grand Rail d'Or at Cannes 2013 and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for North America. Batra also won the Best Director prize at the Odessa International Film Festival.

VEZO
Director: Tod Lending
Africa, Madagascar | Documentary
A 9-year-old girl tells a tale about how her family and village came back from near starvation after their fishing village adopted sustainable fishing practices. Director Tod Lending is an Academy Award-nominated and national Emmy-winning producer, director and  cinematographer whose work has aired on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, HBO, Al Jazeera.