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

LONG DISTANCE

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.
"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)



