yes madam, sir – LA Premier
yes madam, sir, the documentary on Kiran Bedi, is the Closing Night Gala film this year at IFFLA - the first documentary chosen as a Gala film at the fest!
Documentary filmmaker Megan Doneman was granted access to Ms Bedi for six years, and her film has won the Best Documentary film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Fund for Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, as well as the Peoples Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
From the IFFLA Web site:
Kiran Bedi, the first woman to join the Indian Police Service, is a controversial and inspiring figure in recent Indian history. A former professional athlete with interests in social issues, Bedi’s career has been marked by moments of physical courage, institutional innovation, and patriarchal prejudices. Given assignments by the male dominated leadership of the police service meant to marginalize and embarrass her, Bedi succeeded where others failed through her commitment to duty and social justice. From fighting back Sikh extremists, modernizing the notorious Tihar Jail, and reforming the corrupt Police Training Academy, Bedi’s work has been celebrated around the world and vilified by those threatened by a woman’s success in a male dominated field.
Sunday, April 26th, 2009, 7:00 PM
yes madam, sir
ArcLight Hollywood
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Awesome title for the documentary!
Yeah…funny and am sure somebody must have called her that, yes madam, sir.