Mira Nair

Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair used the proceeds to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard. Nair has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006. Nair is married to political scientist Mahmood Mamdani. Their son, Zohran Mamdani, is Mayor of New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mira Nair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

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Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior

Self - director

The Many Miracles of Household Saints

Self

This Changes Everything

Self

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

Self

Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses

Self

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

Self

Restoring the Apu Trilogy

Self

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Self

Femme

Self

Solace in the Dark

Self

Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded

Herself

Lights, Action, Music

Self

Koffee with Karan

Self

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

Self

Bollywood Calling

Mira

My Own Country

1998

The Perez Family

Woman Buying Flowers

Mississippi Masala

Gossip Aunty #1

India Cabaret

Interviewer

So Far from India

Interviewer/Narrator