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SHOT IN BOMBAY
Liz Mermin, USA, 2007; 99 min. NY festival premiere |
Synopsis:
In the summer of 2006, an ambitious but unproven Bollywood director started filming Shootout at Lokhandwala, a movie based on an encounter between the police and gangsters in Bombay in 1991. With a star-studded cast and a true-life story, the film’s release was highly anticipated. In the lead role, playing a famous vigilante cop, was superstar Sanjay Dutt. Unfortunately, Dutt was also involved in a terrorist trial that had been going on since 1993, and the case came to a head just as filming began. Shot in Bombay joins the filmmaking team on the last leg of shooting in January 2007, as they try to finish the film before their lead actor is sentenced. With Aproova Lakhia |
Director: Liz Mermin is a London-based filmmaker from New York. Shot in Bombay, a BBC/Storyville - Sundance Channel commission, was released theatrically at London's ICA in 2008.
Several of her other films are Office Tigers, (premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and broadcast as a mini-series; The Beauty Academy of Kabul (a rare window into Afghan women's lives and American efforts abroad through the story of a unique development initiative, premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival); and On Hostile Ground (2001), deals with the stories of three US abortion providers at the end of a decade of extreme anti-abortion violence and was used by Working Films to promote discussion about abortion access in the Southern US.
As a freelance television director/producer, Ms. Mermin has made work for PBS, ABC, Discovery, Court TV, Trio/Bravo, and Oxygen, and directed an award-winning series of public service announcements profiling human rights activists for Court TV and the NGO Speak Truth to Power.
Ms. Mermin is a 2006 ReNew Media (formerly Rockefeller) Program for Media Artists Fellow. She has two feature documentaries currently in development- one on Afghan pop-legend Ahmad Zahir, and another on the mind of the horse. |
Screening Venue:
The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Saturday, November 8 at 3 PM.
Tickets for Jazz at Lincoln Center |
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