Please join us in the STUDIO on Wednesday April 3rd at 5pm for an exclusive screening of the award-winning short documentary “Suddenly TV”, followed by a talk and Q&A with director Roopa Gogineni.

This event is made possible through the generosity of the 2023-2024 Sylvia & David Steiner Speaker Series, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CAS – Center for Arts in Society, and The Askwith Kenner Global Languages & Cultures Room, Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics.

This event supports the course 82-265/76-207: Whispers & Echoes: Third Cinema, People, Language & Culture in Documentary Storytelling, a new course in LCAL exploring documentary filmmaking through the lens of Third Cinema theory, taught by Professors Candace Skibba and Stephan Caspar.

Roopa Gogineni is a filmmaker and photographer based in Paris. For a decade she lived in Nairobi where she developed a collaborative practice, working alongside communities of resistance across the region.

Her films, described as intimate and urgent, have premiered at festivals including IDFA, SXSW, Hot Docs, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. I AM BISHA, chronicling a satirical puppet show in rebel-held Sudan, received the Oscar-qualifying Full Frame Award for Best Short and a Rory Peck Award. SUDDENLY TV, her latest film about magical thinking and revolution, was nominated for the IDA Awards and earned jury prizes at SXSW, IndieLisboa, and Kasseler Dokfest.

As a curator and advisor for PASTRES, a program learning from pastoralists responding to uncertainty, she visually rendered research into a series of photography books and exhibitions that traveled widely, from COP26 in Glasgow to a horse festival on the Tibetan plateau.

She has directed documentaries for The New York Times, BBC, and Al Jazeera and has led projects supported by CatchLight, Logan Nonfiction, FRONTLINE/Firelight, and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Her current projects include a short documentary about empire, industry, and horses set in West Yorkshire and a visual memoir of her family’s ancestral village in southern India.

Learn more about Roopa here.