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Mara Ahmed, the Filmmaker Behind A THIN WALL by Carol White Llewellyn, RCTV

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January 9, 2016

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I had the wonderful fortune to screen the film, A Thin Wall, while on the programming committee for the High Falls Film Festival. It was a stunningly beautiful documentary about...

VIDEO: Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on Voice of America’s Cafe DC

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December 18, 2015

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“Meet Mara Ahmed, a filmmaker born in Lahore, now living in the US. She discusses her film “A Thin Wall” about the Partition of India and the personal impact on...

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Tasveer’s 10th film festival brings home South Asian geopolitics by Nabeeha Chaudhary, The Seattle Globalist

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October 12, 2015

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As we witness the current tragic Syrian refugee crisis, we are reminded of how significant physical space and man-made borders become in moments of crisis and how important it is...

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Upcoming Screenings of A Thin Wall on the West Coast

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October 10, 2015

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A THIN WALL is on the festival circuit. It will be shown at: The Seattle South Asian Film Festival on Oct 25th The 3rd i Film Festival in Palo Alto...

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A Thin Wall puts people’s stories at the forefront of history by Derek Scarlino, Love and Rage Media

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April 24, 2015

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Mara Ahmed, a Rochester-based filmmaker, has a small but notably socially conscious list of works. Her latest film, A Thin Wall, debuted at The Little Theatre in Rochester on April...

A Thin Wall – Review by Phil Ebersole

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April 24, 2015

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The movie is in three parts—interviews with their aging relatives and friends about the peaceful life in India before partition, then interviews about their terrible experiences during the massacres and...

VIDEO: A Thin Wall on Indymedia

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April 3, 2015

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Ted Forsyth from Rochester Indymedia sat down with filmmaker Mara Ahmed to discuss her new documentary "A Thin Wall" looking at the partition between Pakistan and India that was created...

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Film Review: A Thin Wall by Adam Lubitow, City Newspaper

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March 31, 2015

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In her lyrically non-linear documentary "A Thin Wall," local filmmaker Mara Ahmed focuses on the lingering effects of the partitioning of India in 1947. Filmed on each side of the...

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Documentary Filmmaking Is Now Investigative Journalism: Mara Ahmed

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August 23, 2014

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While most independent filmmakers consider documentary films as the poor cousins of commercial feature films, they use this format of filmmaking as a stepping stone to enter the larger film...

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Shadow lines by Swetha Ramakrishnan, The Indian Express

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June 26, 2014

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Surbhi Dewan was a film student at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, when she met Mara Ahmed, who was taking a part-time course at the university, in 2008. They...

Mara Ahmed, the Filmmaker Behind A THIN WALL by Carol White Llewellyn, RCTV

VIDEO: Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on Voice of America’s Cafe DC

Tasveer’s 10th film festival brings home South Asian geopolitics by Nabeeha Chaudhary, The Seattle Globalist

Upcoming Screenings of A Thin Wall on the West Coast

A Thin Wall puts people’s stories at the forefront of history by Derek Scarlino, Love and Rage Media

A Thin Wall – Review by Phil Ebersole

VIDEO: A Thin Wall on Indymedia

Film Review: A Thin Wall by Adam Lubitow, City Newspaper

Documentary Filmmaking Is Now Investigative Journalism: Mara Ahmed

Shadow lines by Swetha Ramakrishnan, The Indian Express

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