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INSIDE JOB

22 MIN | FICTION | 2023

LOGLINE: When preparing to leave her home in 1970s Nairobi, an Indian housewife loses a piece of jewelry and suspects one of her domestic workers stole it.

Official Selection, 2023 Chicago South Asian Film Festival

Screened at Nanji Foundation Auditorium at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

Screened at Unseen Nairobi theatre , Nairobi

Screened at The Cardel Theatre, Calgary

Awarded Harvard Film Department’s Arnheim Prize for most outstanding interdisciplinary project, merging historical research & visual communication

MAMA OF MANYATTA

33 MIN | DOCUMENTARY | 2023

An intimate look into the heart of an extraordinary woman who, every day, sets out to vitally transform the lives of her fellow community members living with HIV  and gender-based violence in a slum in Kisumu, Kenya.

Official Selection, 2023 Pan African Film Festival

Official Selection, 2023 Essence Film Festival

Special Jury Mention, 2023 Zanzibar International Film Festival

Screened at Nanji Foundation Auditorium at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

Screened at Unseen Nairobi theatre , Nairobi

Screened at The Cardel Theatre, Calgary

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LONG DISTANCE

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28 MIN | DOCUMENTARY | 2021

LOGLINE: A Filipino couple in Calgary, Alberta perseveres through a long-distance relationship redolent of the years they‬ ‭ spent apart in the past. While Roderick, a Cargill‬‭ meat plant worker, recovers in the hospital from a COVID-induced stroke, his wife, Norie, summons the strength‬ to support her family.‬‭

Calgary International Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize, Best Alberta Short Film

Canada Shorts Film Festival - Award of Distinction

The Workers Unite Film Festival - Honorable Mention

Venice Shorts

Hamilton Film Festival

Motion Pictures International Film Festival

Awarded $10,000 Calgary Arts Development Project Grant

THE MONUMENT PROJECT

ART INSTALLATION | 2022

The Monument Project was founded & directed by Harvard College students, Kiana Rawji '23 and Cecilia Zhou '23 to interrogate public memory, cultivate public imagination, and envision a more just future. Beginning as a 2020 social media initiative with creative challenges for multi-disciplinary artists. In 2022, The Monument Project produced Inclusions, the largest, longest-standing art installation in Harvard Yard, which engaged 200+ students across Harvard University in reflecting on both institutional memory & individual identity.

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"The red bricks that make up Harvard’s built environment have witnessed centuries of personal and public history, from individual transformation to societal upheaval. From 2021-2022, The Monument Project invited students to carve their own brick tiles, making visible the experiences and ideas that have defined what Harvard means to them. The markings on the brick faces register the presence of the students who carved them, testaments to formative encounters between institution and individual. They thus enable previously unknown events, names, and experiences to emerge from the brickwork and enter the public eye as a hidden history—a people’s history—of Harvard."​​ (https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/inclusions​​​​​​​)

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