Portfolio

  • Attic Boys

    “Attic Boys” Screenplay of a 30-minute narrative. The film script of Attic Boys presents an opportunity for the writer/director to examine the screenplay and the shooting process from a creative research perspective, tying filmmaking practice to interdisciplinary theory… Read More

  • Anglo-Indians: Betwixt and Between

    “Anglo-Indians: Betwixt and Between” is a 28-minute documentary film.  The “Anglo-Indian” community is a unique but fading community and culture in India. At the time of India’s independence in 1947, half a million Anglo-Indians were in India. An… Read More

  • An Gorta Mór: Passage to India

    On a quest to discover why his Irish ancestors left in 1847 for a new life in India, Ian Michael uncovers a nearly 200-year-old story of his family’s struggle to persevere in the face of extreme adversity that resonates even today in contemporary stories of the migrant experience

  • All Alone and Lonely

    Documentary on the widows and orphans of Kashmir (2009). Official selection at Mumbai International Film Festival; Golden Gate Fiction and Documentary Film Festival; San Francisco Film Festival; International Children’s Film Festival and Delhi International Film Festival. Film

  • Children of God

    People with special needs have always been there but it wasn’t that long ago that they were held back, set aside, hidden away or held up to ridicule.

  • Other Projects

    Ostrich: A Great Bird (2005)
    Story of Laxmi (2002)
    Little People on the Move (2001)
    Pill Poppers Beware

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