Join LAVA for film screenings every 2nd Thursday! This summer’s focus is on local filmmakers. Aug. 14 will feature Abhi Indrekar and Brooklyn Demme.
Abhi Indrekar* is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker and editor raised in the traditions of street theatre activism and community-based art in India. He is a recipient of the prestigious Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship 2024-2025. Abhi has over a decade’s experience in documentary editing with some of India’s most respected and daring socio-political filmmakers, including Anand Patwardhan, Dakxin Chhara and Nakul Singh Sawhney. He has worked on documentary and fiction films. Since coming to the US, Abhi’s credits have included Trevor Noah’s Turning Point series for MSNBC and TIME Studios, the World Channel at GBH Boston and PBS, Untold: Netflix, Black Voters Matter documentary among other independent documentary projects.
*(pronunciation: uh-bee)|(pronouns: he/him)
Abhi will screen his new experimental documentary film, “I am grass.” A meditation on migration, “I am grass” links street theatre to street protest, witnesses police violence against one people duplicating itself across cultures and geography. It sees resistance persisting in traditional artistic livelihoods at the same time that adaptations of traditions create something new. View the “I am grass” trailer.
Brooklyn TrueHeart Demme learned filmmaking from his dad Jonathan, the celebrated filmmaker behind films including Philadelphia, Beloved, The Agronomist, and others. Brooklyn seeks to honor his dads legacy in the name of Truth 2 Power, an organization working towards unity at the intersection of community, education, and film.
The team’s first fictional film, Mountain Lion — produced in association with the Sand Hill Band of Lenape & Cherokee Indians of Scheyichbi — screened at the 2024 LAVA Film Festival.
Brooklyn will screen his father Jonathan Demme’s documentary, Cousin Bobby, and then have a Q&A about his experience of learning from his father in the field.
$1–5 suggested donation
