VIDEO: Zoom Live with the Makers of A Thin Wall
Kriti Film Club organized a Zoom Q&A as part of their 'Weekend Watch' streaming of A THIN WALL with filmmakers Mara Ahmed and Surbhi Dewan, on Sunday August 16, 2020.
Dividing the Indivisible: Revisiting Partition
Namrata Joshi: There is a poignant moment in Pakistani-American filmmaker Mara Ahmed’s documentary, A Thin Wall, when Jitender Sethi, grand aunt of the film’s Indian co-producer, Surbhi Dewan, talks about...
Negative Portrayals of American Muslims in Mainstream Media
Since 9/11, American Muslims face increasing stigmatization and may be subject to a growing backlash from American news media and the broader public. New findings indicate that media coverage of...
Borderless: A Conversation with Mara Ahmed – Part 2
Ahmed’s “The Injured Body” is now set to be completed amid one of the largest racial protest movements in recent history. She says it “is a response to this political...
Borderless: A Conversation with Mara Ahmed – Part 1
What does home mean to Mara Ahmed and where does she feel most at home were the first questions that came to my mind. “The idea of ‘home’ and what...
List of Alternative Media
The concentration of corporate media ownership in the US, has made it more important than ever to consult alternative, non-mainstream media in order to be well-informed about what’s going on...
Mara Ahmed’s Unwavering Lens by E. C. Salibian
Ahmed today is making a new documentary with the working title “The Injured Body.” The film was inspired by the book “Citizen: An American Lyric,” by the poet Claudia Rankine....
Reilly Hirst on A Thin Wall
Poet, philosopher and Rochester-based activist Reilly Hirst pens a review of A Thin Wall: A Thin Wall is a lush and important documentary. Deftly and tenderly handled, it is a...
Indian, Pakistani: Why Two Women Felt Compelled To Make This Partition Documentary
Many people have asked me over the years how Surbhi Dewan and I came together to make A Thin Wall, an intensely personal film about the partition of India. Here...
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Connections with Evan Dawson: Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on Borders and Nationalism
A poll conducted in the aftermath of the Charlottesville rallies found that while few Americans will outwardly express support for white nationalism or racially-charged ideas, more than 30 percent say...