As a graduate student in New York, I lived in the International House, a house with 700 graduate students from all over the world. As part of my work-study, I worked as the videographer for the I-House, and shot the colorful cultural events and speakers who came to speak there. I also shot and edited the 2001 International House of New York Yearbook. The video features people as diverse as Fareed Zakaria, Bill Moyers, Gerry Adams, amongst others.

My documentary WATER was shown at the Flickerfest in Sydney in 2001.  F LiCKERFEST is  Australia’s leading and most respected short film festival, and is Australia’s only Academy® accredited and BAFTA recognised short film festival.  Here's Flickerfest's website : www.flickerfest.com.au Flickerfest is an Academy Accredited Short Film Festival & BAFTA recognised Film Festival

REVIEW: FILM SOUTH ASIA '01, Festival of South Asian Documentaries New Abilities REVIEW: FILM SOUTH ASIA '01, Festival of South Asian Documentaries By Sushma Joshi Nepal is a country known more for its mountains and trekking trips than for its film festivals. You'd imagine that budget travelers would be more likely to be seen downing an apple pie en route to Everest than catching the latest at a documentary festival. But Film South Asia, the film festival of South Asian documentaries, has been drawing an eclectic crowd of residents as well as travelers since its debut in Kathmandu in 1997. The first four-day film festival, held in the cosy new theatres of the Russian Cultural Center in downtown Kathmandu, drew crowds of people for the latest documentaries from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Fifty-five documentaries were shown at the first festival, including Nusrat Has Left the Building, But When? Pakistan's Farzad Nabi's experimental docu-dra...

PANI/Water is in the FSA film archive.

PANI (Water) was shown on the Q and A with Riz Khan on CNN International on October 2000. Here is the link to the show.  The Washington Speakers Bureau describes the show: Khan's acclaimed public visibility grew even more when CNN International hired him in 1993 as its leading news figure. In 1996, he launched his groundbreaking flagship interview show, Q&A with Riz Khan —featuring heads of state, celebrities and other leading figures taking calls from viewers around the world on live TV. The digitized interview will go up shortly! 

The Sound of Silence in the Yamagata Documentary Film festival