Mira Nair
Directing
Born October 15, 1957 in Rourkela, Orissa, India
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair used the proceeds to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.
Filmography
Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
Self - director
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
Self
National Treasure: Edge of History
A Suitable Boy
This Changes Everything
Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Queen of Katwe
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Self
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Self
Restoring the Apu Trilogy
Self
A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Words with Gods
Femme
Self
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Solace in the Dark
Self
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Herself
Amelia
8
How Can It Be
New York, I Love You
Migration
Lights, Action, Music
Self
The Namesake
Koffee with Karan
Self
Vanity Fair
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Self
11’09”01—September 11: India
September 11
Hysterical Blindness
Bollywood Calling
Mira
The Laughing Club of India
Monsoon Wedding
My Own Country
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
The Perez Family
Woman Buying Flowers
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
Mississippi Masala
Gossip Aunty #1
Salaam Bombay!
India Cabaret
Interviewer
So Far from India
Interviewer/Narrator
Jama Masjid Street Journal