Mira Nair

Mira Nair

Born: October 15, 1957
in Rourkela, Orissa, India
Mira Nair (born October 15, 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 film, 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. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization 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.

She 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.

Her most recent films included Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon, The Namesake, and Amelia.

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This Changes Everything
Title: This Changes Everything
Character: Self
Released: June 28, 2019
Type: Movie
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Title: Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema.
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Les réalisatrices contemporaines:  l'état des choses
Title: Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Character: Self
Released: July 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
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The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Title: The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
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Restoring the Apu Trilogy
Title: Restoring the Apu Trilogy
Character: Self
Released: November 17, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though there were no technologies available at the time capable of fully restoring such badly damaged film elements, the Academy Film Archive held on to them. And now times have changed.
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Title: Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Character: Self
Released: August 2, 2015
Type: TV
Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.
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Femme
Title: Femme
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 2013
Type: Movie
A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.
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Solace in the Dark
Title: Solace in the Dark
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Title: Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Character: Herself
Released: March 12, 2011
Type: Movie
A sequel to the 1988 award winning documentary, "Slaying the Dragon," this film looks at the past 25 years of representation of Asian and Asian American women in U.S. visual media -- from blockbuster films and network television to Asian American cinema and YouTube -- to explore what's changed, what's been recycled, and what we can hope for in the future.
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Lights, Action, Music
Title: Lights, Action, Music
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern greats.
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Title: Koffee with Karan
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: TV
Celebrity host Karan Johar gets up close and personal with various Bollywood personalities and discusses their major career milestones.
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Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Title: Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2004
Type: Movie
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
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Bollywood Calling
Title: Bollywood Calling
Character: Mira
Released: November 23, 2001
Type: Movie
An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.
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The Perez Family
Title: The Perez Family
Character: Woman buying Flowers
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.
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Mississippi Masala
Title: Mississippi Masala
Character: Gossip Aunty #1
Released: September 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
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India Cabaret
Title: India Cabaret
Character: Interviewer
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay.
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The Many Miracles Of Household Saints
Title: The Many Miracles Of Household Saints
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Household Saints.