Mira Nair
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mira Nair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Bollywood Calling
(Mira)
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
(Self)
India Cabaret
(Interviewer)
Mississippi Masala
(Gossip Aunty #1)
Femme
(Self)
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
(Self)
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
(Self)
Solace in the Dark
(Self)
The Perez Family
(Woman buying Flowers)
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
(Self)
This Changes Everything
(Self)
Lights, Action, Music
(Self)
Restoring the Apu Trilogy
(Self)
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
(Herself)
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
(Self)
Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
(Self)
Koffee with Karan
(Self)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Monsoon Wedding
(Director)
Monsoon Wedding
(Producer)
11’09”01—September 11
(Director)
Vanity Fair
(Director)
Amelia
(Director)
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
(Writer)
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
(Director)
Mississippi Masala
(Director)
The Perez Family
(Director)
The Namesake
(Director)
Hysterical Blindness
(Director)
Salaam Bombay!
(Director)
8
(Director)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(Director)
My Own Country
(Director)
My Own Country
(Producer)
So Far from India
(Director)
India Cabaret
(Director)
The Laughing Club of India
(Director)
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
(Director)
Migration
(Director)
Words with Gods
(Director)
A Fork, A Spoon & A Knight
(Director)
A Fork, A Spoon & A Knight
(Writer)
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
(Writer)
Queen of Katwe
(Director)
New York, I Love You
(Director)
Salaam Bombay!
(Story)
Salaam Bombay!
(Producer)
The Namesake
(Producer)
Mississippi Masala
(Producer)
8
(Producer)
How Can It Be
(Director)
Migration
(Executive Producer)
11’09”01—September 11: India
(Director)
The Bengali Detective
(Director)
Positive
(Executive Producer)
Jama Masjid Street Journal
(Director)
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
(Producer)
A Suitable Boy
(Director)
National Treasure: Edge of History
(Director)
National Treasure: Edge of History
(Executive Producer)