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After the death of her father, a biracial first generation American filmmaker travels to his ancestral home in Mumbai, India, to settle his affairs and discovers a memoir he had been writing about the violence of Partition, his own traumatic past, and his last summer in India before he moved to the U.S. in 1968. A story of familial bonds and family secrets, intergenerational trauma, and the meaning of home told across two continents and two timelines, the present day and the summer of 1968. Inspired by the director's own family history.
Bio
Tara Anaïse is an Indian American writer/director. She is a Sundance Feature Film Program Fellow, an alum of the Fox Diversity Writers Program, and an Emmy nominee. Her début feature, Dark Mountain, was released by Gravitas Ventures and peaked at number 8 in iTunes top horror. Her upcoming projects include the features Bombay Blood, which she workshopped at the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive in Los Angeles, and Wildcats, a dark coming-of-age crime drama set in the California desert. She holds an MFA in film production from USC's School of Cinematic Arts and a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
