Ava DuVernay to Sit Down With Filmmaker Mira Nair Throughout Double Fair Event

Array is opening up its Los Angeles campus on Oct. 31 to host filmmaker Mira Nair as segment of a double characteristic screening tournament that would possibly showcase her motion photographs Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Marriage ceremony. The latter film will show first and be followed by a varied conversation between Nair and Array founder Ava DuVernay.

The tournament is available in the center of a yr with milestone anniversaries for Nair’s pics. Mississippi Masala — starring Denzel Washington opposite Sarita Choudhury in the story of a couple that falls in comprise in the relate where her family settles after being expelled from Uganda — celebrates a 30th anniversary with a 4K restoration and is being presented courtesy of Janus Movies. Monsoon Marriage ceremony, which follows the preparations surrounding an arranged marriage, marks its 20th anniversary.

Free tickets to both screenings are readily available at arrayplay.com. Additionally expected to again the tournament would possibly be Tilane Jones, president of Array, the Peabody Award-profitable multi-platform media firm and humanities collective.

The Nair tournament marks Array’s 2d filmmaker occasion after now not too long prior to now internet webhosting Haile Gerima for the launch of his film Sankofa. Nair’s other credits consist of Hysterical Blindness, Arrogance Gorgeous, The Namesake, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Queen of Katwe and A Correct Boy. Currently, Nair is directing the pilot of the sequence National Take care of for DisneyPlus and JBTV.