MISS INDIA GEORGIA (56:40)

Produced and directed by Daniel Friedman & Sharon Grimberg

Miss India Georgia follows four contestants during the hectic weeks lleading up to Atlanta's annual South Asian beauty pageant. In discussions with their grandparents about arranged marriages, in quarrels with their boyfriends, and in revealing conversations with Indian and non-Indian friends, these young women disclose the complexity of their feelings about growing up in the US as children of immigrant parents. Sometimes funny and sometimes sad, the stories of these resilient teenagers teach us that each individual's experience of "Americanization" is unique.

SHOWINGS:

• PBS National Broadcast - Primetime Schedule
• American Anthropological Association
• American Sociological Association
• Society for the Study of Social Problems
• South Asian Studies Asssociation
• National Association for Ethnic Studies
• Double Take Documentary Festival
• Robert Flaherty Memorial Film Seminar
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Athens International Film & Video Festival
• Atlanta Film & Video Festival
• Victoria (BC) Independent Film Festival
• Johns Hopkins Film Festival
• San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival
• Wexner Center for the Arts
• New England Film & Video Festival

 

 


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