Local Film Night: Abhi Indrekar + TBA

Join LAVA for film screenings every 2nd Thursday! This summer’s focus is on local filmmakers.

Abhi Indrekar is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker and editor raised in the traditions of street theatre activism and community-based art in India. He is a recipient of the prestigious Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship 2024-2025. Abhi has over a decade’s experience in documentary editing with some of India’s most respected and daring socio-political filmmakers, including Anand Patwardhan, Dakxin Chhara and Nakul Singh Sawhney. He has worked on documentary and fiction films. Since coming to the US, Abhi’s credits have included Trevor Noah’s Turning Point series for MSNBC and TIME Studios, the World Channel at GBH Boston and PBS, Untold: Netflix, Black Voters Matter documentary among other independent documentary projects.

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Abhi will screen his new experimental documentary film, “I am grass.” A meditation on migration, “I am grass” links street theatre to street protest, ​witnesses police violence against one people duplicating ​itself across cultures and geography. It sees resistance ​persisting in traditional artistic livelihoods at the same time ​that adaptations of traditions create something new.

View the “I am grass” trailer: https://vimeo.com/1042559729