Eisha Marjara

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Eisha Marjara is a Canadian film director. With a background in photography, Montreal filmmaker Marjara has written and directed several award winning films, including the feature documentary Desperately Seeking Helen, The Incredible Shrinking Woman and the 2006 German-Canadian short The Tourist (The Tourist (2006)). House for Sale (2012) has won over six awards in its first year alone in various international film festivals. She is currently developing several feature films including Venus and Calorie.

Marjara, along with her family, is a Sikh.[1]

Career

Although her feature film The Incredible Shrinking Woman already achieved international recognition in 1994 and received an Honourable Mention at the Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, it was the feature documentary production Desperately Seeking Helen that put her name on a list of promising new talents to critics around the world. The movie shows the filmmaker on a journey to India, exploring her own Indian roots by following the career of acclaimed Bollywood movie star and vamp Helen Richardson Khan. The movie received the jury award of the Munich documentary film festival in 2000 as well as the Prix de La Semaine Critique at the Locarno International Film Festival the same year. Marjara's Canadian-German co-production The Tourist had its first showing at the 24th Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois in 2006.

Personal life

Marjara is the daughter of father Dr. Harinder Singh Marjara,[2] and mother Devinder. She had two sisters, Seema and Amita.[3] She grew up in Trois-Rivières, Quebec,[4] and she lived in Trois-Rivières, Sainte-Foy, and Montreal.[5] She attended Concordia University, enrolled in Communications Studies.[4]

Her mother and Seema died on Air India Flight 182.[6] Her family members were flying on Air India to visit relatives.[1] Seema had just graduated from Centennial Regional High School.[7] Eisha was not on board because she was being treated for anorexia nervosa, and her father was teaching a summer course at the time.[1] Both Eisha and Amita Marjara along with father Harinder were interview subjects of the documentary Air India 182.[3]

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Reinhart, Anthony. "Three relatives of Air India victims revisit lost innocence." The Globe and Mail. Wednesday June 16, 2010. Updated Thursday August 23, 2012. Retrieved on November 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ Badami, Anita Rau. Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? Penguin Books India, January 1, 2006. ISBN 0670999415, 9780670999415. p. 404.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Air India 182 Press Kit" (Archive). Air India 182 (film) official website. p. 11/12. Retrieved on October 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Black, Barbara. "Air India disaster hit Concordia hard" (Archive). Concordia's Thursday Report. April 21, 2005. Volume 29, No. 14. Retrieved on November 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Eisha Marjara" (Archive). Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (RVCQ). Retrieved on November 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ Reinhart, Anthony. "Three relatives of Air India victims revisit lost innocence" (Archive). The Globe and Mail. Wednesday June 16, 2010. Updated Thursday August 23, 2012. Retrieved on October 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ Semenak, Susan. "Happy honors grad left prom early to rest up for ill-fated flight to India." The Montreal Gazette. Wednesday June 26, 1985. p. A1. Retrieved on Google News (p. 1/111) on October 22, 2014.

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