2010 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund
LIST Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir!Category | PIFF Supporters Fund |
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Project | Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir! |
Director | Shashwati TALUKDAR & P. Kerim FRIEDMAN |
Country | India, USA, Taiwan |
Director's Profile |
Shashwati Talukdar, Director/Producer, began working in film and television as an assistant editor for a TV show by Michael Moore (1999). Since then she has worked on projects for HBO, BBC, Lifetime, Sundance and Cablevision. In 2001, she produced a documentary on Mahasweta Devi, an eminent writer and activist, who is revered by the Chhara community. Her films have screened at venues including the Margaret Mead Festival, Berlin and the Whitney Biennial. She has been supported by entities including the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, and IFP Project Involve Fellowship. P. Kerim Friedman, Director/Producer/Cameraman, has earned a PhD and taught in ethnographic film and photography since 1993. Currently, he is assistant professor of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. He divides his time between Taiwan and India. Please Don′t Beat Me, Sir! is his second documentary and first feature. |