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7 Days in Slow Motion Director: Umakanth Thumrugoti Cast: Teja, Kunal Sharma, Shiva Varma, Rajeshwari Sacdev, Ayesha Jaleel, etc Language: English Running Time: 100 mins Screening: 7:00 pm, January 22, 2010. 12:30 pm, January 23, 2010.	Amal Director: Richie Mehta Cast: Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koel Purie, Roshan Seth, Vik Sahay, etc Language: Hindi (with subtitles) Running Time: 101 mins Screening: 9:00pm, January 23, 2010.
Bombay Summer Director: Joseph Mathew Varghese Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Jatin Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Gaurav Dwivedi, etc Language: English/Hindi (with subtitles) Running Time: 105 Mins Screening: 5:30pm, January 24, 2010.	Little Zizou Director: Sooni Taraporevala Cast: Boman Irani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Zenobia Shroff, Shernaz Patel, Imaad Shah, John Abraham, etc Language: English, some Hindi/Gujarati (with subtitles) Running Time: 101 mins Screening: 6:00pm, January 23, 2010.
Tahaan Director: Santosh Sivan Cast: Purav Bhandare, Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rahul Bose, Victor Banerjee, Rahul Khanna, etc Language: Hindi (with subtitles) Running Time: 105 mins Screening: 7:00pm, January 23, 2010.	Gulabi Talkies Director: Girish Kasaravalli Cast: Umashree, K.G. Krishna Murthy, M.D. Pallavi, Poornima Mohan, Ashok Sandip etc Language: Kannada (with subtitles) Running Time: 122 mins Screening: 2:50pm, January 24, 2010.
Gabhricha Paus (The Damned Rain) Director: Satish Manwar Cast: Girish Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Jyoti Subhash, Veena Jamkar, Ammanul Attar, etc Language: Marathi (with subtitles) Running Time: 100 mins Screening: 5:00pm, January 24, 2010.	Kanchivaram Director: Priyadarshan Cast: Prakash Raj, Shriya Reddy, Shammu, Geetha Vijayan, etc Language: Tamil (with subtitles) Running Time: 117 mins Screening: 3:00pm, January 23, 2010.
Pazhassi Raja Director: T. Hariharan Cast: Mammootty, Sarath Kumar, Thilakan, Suresh Krishna, Manoj K Jayan, Kaniha, Padmapriya, etc Language: Malayalam (NO SUBTITLES) Running Time: 195 mins Screening: 10:45am, January 23, 2010.	The Salt Stories (Documentary) Direction/Story/Producer: Lalit Vachani Crew: Mrinal Desai, Anita Kushwaha, Lalit Vachani, Menno Boerema Language: Hindi, Gujarati & English Running Time: 84 mins Screening: 2:30pm, January 24, 2010.
Anything for You Director: Anand Alagappan Cast: Sam Ghosh, Julie Fine, Pooja Kumar, Aaron Mathias, etc Language: English Running Time: 90 mins Screening: 2:30pm, January 23, 2010.	Chath Director: Hyder Bilgrami & Tirthankar Das Cast: Sanjay Malhotra, Liyakat Khan, Charu Gupta, Sarah Tyler, Shayna Glassman Language: Hindi (with subtitles) Running Time: 97 mins Screening: 12:00pm, January 24, 2010. This film is intended for mature audiences only.
Wake up Sid Director: Ayan Mukherjee Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Namit Das, Rahul Khanna, Anupam Kher, Kainaz Motivala, Supriya Pathak, Kashmira Shah, etc Language: Hindi (with subtitles) Running Time: 138 mins Screening: 12:00pm, January 24, 2010.
SHORT FILMS
Kissing Miss Jones Writer/Producer/Director: Chandra Pemmaraju Cast: Lavrenti Lopes, Khushboo Shah, Christopher Peuler, Meredith Dillard, Julie Donahue, Kyle Donahue, Collin James, Aaron Katter, Nadia Rahman, Aditi P. Solanki Language: English Running Time: 23 mins A short Woody Allenesque comedy set in New York, Kissing Miss Jones is about Baal Pathak, a self doubting paranoid guy..Like Oscar Wilde's quote 'A Kiss may ruin a human life', the film Kissing Miss Jones is about how a kiss ruined Baal Pathak's life. Screening: 2:30pm & 7:00pm, January 23, 2010.	Sukrit's Sundays Writer/Producer/Director: Vasant Nath Language: Silent Movie Running Time: 8 mins A film about childhood memories, and how they lodge themselves permanently in our hearts very early in our lives. It is a very short, very sensitive silent film creating the atmosphere of all our childhoods gone by. Little Sukrit visits his grandfather every Sunday, only to learn the importance of this ritual later. Screening: 9:00 pm, January 23, 2010.
Ismael Writer/Producer/Director: Ambarish Manepalli Language: English/Hindi Running Time: 9 mins An Indian motel owner is forced to question his relationship with his Pakistani employee in the face of an investigation. Screening: 12:30 pm, January 23, 2010. 2:30 pm, January 24, 2010.	Kavi Writer/Producer/Director: Gregg Helvey Cast: Sagar Salunke, Ulhas Tayade, Rajesh Kumar, Madhavi Juvekar, Debu Bhattacharya, Rishi Raj Singh, Mukesh Barahti, etc Language: Hindi (with subtitles) Running Time: 19 mins Kavi is a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must either accept what he’s always been told, or fight for a different life even if he’s unsure of the ultimate outcome. Screening: 5:00pm & 5:30pm, January 24, 2010.
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Music Video Segment Programmed & Hosted by Deejay Ra(Raoul Juneja) Running Time: 60 Mins The IIFF Tampa Bay will be making history as the first South Asian film festival in the US to introduce a music video segment celebrating South Asian music videos as an exciting form of cinema. Programmed and hosted by well known music personality Raoul Juneja (a.k.a. Deejay Ra), the segment highlights the growing independent movement of South Asian music artists from around the world, representing genres of pop, rock, hip-hop, dance, and many more. Screening: 9:15pm, January 23, 2010.	Red, White and Brown (Presented by Russell Peters in person.) Performances: Russell Peters Running Time: 78 mins "Red, White & Brown" was recorded at The WAMU Theatre at Madison Square Garden on February 2nd, 2008 before a sold-out audience. Comedian Russell Peters is known for his skillful skewering of racial stereotypes and colorful descriptions of his childhood in South Asia, and as the cameras roll to capture every hilarious moment of Peters' stand up comedy special, the laughs don't stop until the house lights come up. Screening: 5:00pm, January 23, 2010.
When Art Meets Business: Filmmaking and Finance in the global market. When Art Meets Business Filmmaking and Finance in the Global Market. Panel: Lindsey Guthrie, Lawrence Haber, Tom Garrett, Prashant Shah, etc Time: 6:00pm, January 23, 2010.

3 Day Festival Pass ($50.00)

Admit one for the entire film festival for all three days. Includes Screening & After Party on Friday.

[Excludes VIP Reception on Friday and After Party on Saturday]

PLEASE NOTE THAT SEATS ARE NOT GUARANTEED WITH A FESTIVAL PASS. PLEASE BE IN YOUR SEAT 10 MINS BEFORE THE SCREENING.

VIP OPENING RECEPTION & SCREENING ($50.00)
Walk the red carpet with film-makers, industry professionals and local leaders and join us at the VIP reception, the opening feature screening and the After-Party. 1 drink ticket per pass. Pass admits one.

Opening Feature & After Party - Friday ($15.00)

Admit one for the Opening Feature Screening, Q&A session with film makers and the After Party.

Day Pass - Saturday ($25.00)

Admit one to all films and events on Saturday.

[Excludes After Party on Saturday]

PLEASE NOTE THAT SEATS ARE NOT GUARANTEED WITH A DAY PASS. PLEASE BE IN YOUR SEAT 10 MINS BEFORE THE SCREENING.

Day Pass - Sunday ($15.00)

Admit one to all films and events on Sunday.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SEATS ARE NOT GUARANTEED WITH A DAY PASS. PLEASE BE IN YOUR SEAT 10 MINS BEFORE THE SCREENING.

Individual Films ($10.00)

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Depending on availability, tickets for individual films will also be sold at Channelside Cinemas before the screening.


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