We are pleased to announce that a generous sponsor has donated a limited number of tickets for students, seniors (75+), newcomers, and any others for whom cost is a barrier to Kiana Rawji’s Film Screening in the Nanji Family Foundation Auditorium at the Aga Khan Museum on Sunday, October 15, 2023. Those identifying with these categories may use the promo code KRFILMS2023. The link to obtain tickets is https://krfilms.eventbrite.com/. When the screen is displayed, click on the icon Get Tickets; it will take you to the check-out screen where you can enter the promo code KRFILMS2023. The cost of the ticket, CA$22.63, will be waived and you will get a free ticket provided tickets are still available.
The two films screening on October 15th are:
- Inside Job: A short fictional film about an Indian woman who, when preparing to leave her home in 1970s Kenya, loses a piece of jewelry and suspects one of her African domestic servants stole it; and
- Mama of Manyatta: A short documentary about an extraordinary woman fighting HIV and gender-based violence in a Kenyan slum.
Kiana recently gave us an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW where she told us about her work and what inspires her. We now invite you to watch her two short films at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto on Sunday, October 15.
Purchase Tickets at Eventbrite for Kiana Rawji’s Film Screening at the Aga Khan Museum, October 15, 2023, 11 AM – 1 PM
Click on https://krfilms.eventbrite.com/ or on the image below to obtain your tickets. If cost is a barrier, use the Promo Code KRFILMS2023 to acquire a free ticket; Kiana wants everyone who wants to attend to be able to attend the screening of her films. Tickets are limited!
Date posted: October 14, 2023.
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Kiana Rawji is an award-winning filmmaker from Calgary, Alberta, and daughter of South Asian immigrants from Kenya. She recently graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College studying Film and History & Literature. Through film, she tries to amplify social issues and drive cultural change; from independent theatres to Oscar-qualifying film festivals, her films have screened across Canada, the USA, and East Africa. Kiana’s TEDx talks on Islam and the Cosmopolitan Ethic have reached over 150,000 people worldwide. Please click https://krfilms.eventbrite.com/ to attend her two short film screenings at the Aga Khan Museum on Sunday, October 15, 2023.
Simerg - Insights from Around the World 
I saw these two short films at the AKM about two weeks ago. They were excellent. Inside Job captured the “bubble insular” life that ALL Asians, including the Ismaili Community, used to live in East Africa in the colonial period and than for the first 10-15 years after independence in the 1960’s. Mama of Manyatta reflected the lives of the African masses that all Asians were oblivious to!! Well portrayed and done Kiana!!