An evening with celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair
Gardner Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts
March 27th, 5:30PM in Kingsbury Hall
Free and Open to the Public
Free Screenings of Nair's most Celebrated Films in Orson Spencer Hall 7:00PM
-March 22: THE NAMESAKE
-March 27: THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST **WORLD PREMIERE**
-March 29: MONSOON WEDDING
March 4, 2013-- The David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts is proud to present Mira Nair, celebrated filmmaker on March 27th at 5:30PM in Kingsbury Hall. One of Hollywood's brightest directors, Nair will reflect on her experiences as a filmmaker in both Hollywood and in independent cinema with a talk entitled “Between Two worlds: Creating Identity.”
Tickets are not required for the lecture. Tickets for the World Premiere will be given first come basis at the lecture.
Photo courtesy of the Lavin Agency
The College of Fine Arts will also be screening the world premiere of Mira’s newest film THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (2012) starring Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson and Keifer Sutherland, on the 27th after the lecture in the Orson Spencer Hall Auditorium. Two of Nair’s best-known films will be also screened in celebration of her visit to Salt Lake City- THE NAMESAKE (2006) on March 22nd and MONSOON WEDDING (2001) on March 29th. Both films will be screened at 7:00PM in Orson Spencer Hall on the U of U campus and are free and open to the public.
A skilled director, Mira Nair is equally adept talking to an audience; she began her career in front of the camera, not behind it. With sophistication, she discusses the craft of filmmaking as well as the issues she so passionately explores in her films: the tug of competing worlds felt by millions of immigrants, and ways to bridge the gap between cultures, races and genders. In the process, Nair shows you how film can challenge stereotypes and generational assumptions.
After several years of making documentary films, Mira Nair made a stunning entry on to the world stage with her first feature, SALAAM BOMBAY! (1988), now hailed as a classic. The film received more than 25 international awards, including an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film, BAFTA, and the Camera D’Or (for best first feature) and Prix du Publique (for most popular entry) at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988.
In the following decade, Nair directed four features: MISSISSIPPI MASALA (1991), THE PEREZ FAMILY (1995), KAMA SUTRA: A TALE of LOVE (1996), and MY OWN COUNTRY (1998). In 2001, Nair's MONSOON WEDDING won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA, becoming one of the highest grossing foreign films of all time. In 2002, Nair directed HYSTERICAL
winning the Golden Globe for star Uma Thurman, and 3 Emmy Awards for Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara and design. In 2004, Nair directed Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp in Focus Features' stunning adaptation of Thackeray's VANITY FAIR. A year later, Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's bestselling novel THE NAMESAKE became another critical and commercial success for the director.
About the Gardner Lecture:
The David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts is administered by the Tanner Humanities Center in collaboration with the College of Humanities, the College of Fine Arts, and the Graduate School. The Gardner Lecture was founded in the University of Utah Graduate School in honor of former President David Pierpont Gardner. The Gardner Lecture features distinguished scholars and artists from the humanities and the fine arts in alternating years. Each year this lecture series brings a lecturer in recognition of high scholarly achievement in the humanities and fine arts. Some of the esteemed lecturers include; Judith Jamison, Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Stephen Macedo who is a Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Bobbie McFerrin, musician, vocalist and conductor of New York City, and Robert Hughes the Art Editor for Time Magazine.
Nair’s lecture is on March 27th at 5:30PM and is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required for the lecture, but due to limited seating availability, there will be tickets given out at the lecture for the screening of THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (world premiere). There will be a Q&A following the screening. For more information on the screenings and the Garner Lecture Series go to www.finearts.utah.edu.
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