SOMA GIRLS - Cineffable 2012

Nandini SIKAND

Born and raised in New Delhi, Nandini Sikand is an independent filmmaker and Odissi dancer based in New York City. Her films include The Bhangra Wrap (1995), Don't Fence Me In (1998), Amazonia (2001) and In Whose Name? (2004). All her films have won awards and have screened at over a hundred domestic and international film festivals. She also produced the documentary, Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer (2001). She served on the board of directors of Women Make Movies, a non-profit feminist, media distribution organization from 1997-2006. In television, she has worked on projects for Channel Four: UK, Rainbow Programming, Ovation: the Arts Network, HBO, Oxygen Media and The History Channel. She is also pursuing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY and has taught courses on production and film theory at Hunter College, Swarthmore College and Hofstra University. Nandini is also a dancer trained in Odissi and is the co-founder and co-director of the Odissi dance company, Sakshi Productions.

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Alexia PRICHARD

Alexia Prichard is an independent filmmaker, videographer and editor, based in Boston. Most recently she was Senior Video Producer/Editor for AOL web properties Propeller.com, Black Voices, AOL Latina, and Green Daily for whom she created and produced an online series on sustainability. Among her numerous editing credits, feature documentary work includes: Call Me Horacio, about the effects of Argentina's Dirty War on one young man; The Baja Wave Document, about the destructive development along the Baja CA coast; and Discovering: Shuktara, about a home for deaf and disabled boys and girls in Kolkata, India. Alexia is currently in production on The Dirty Truth About Coal, a feature length documentary about the health effects of coal production, and in pre-production on a documentary about a rare breed of cow. She is also partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a film about terrorism called Colossal Failures. She is the founder and executive producer of Closed Loop Films, a production company focused on issues of environmental and social justice.

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October 31st to November 4, 2012

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Partners 2012