Eisha Marjara

Eisha Marjara is a Canadian film director.

Career

Although her feature film "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" already achieved international recognition in 1994 and received an Honourable Mention at the Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, it was the feature documentary production "Desperately Seeking Helen" that put her name on a list of promising new talents to critics around the world. The movie shows the filmmaker on a journey to India, exploring her own Indian roots by following the career of acclaimed Bollywood movie star and vamp Helen Richardson Khan. The movie received the jury award of the Munich documentary film festival in 2000 as well as the Prix de La Semaine Critique at the Locarno International Film Festival the same year. Marjara's Canadian-German co-production "The Tourist" had its first showing at the 24th Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois in 2006.

Filmography

* "25 hrs." (1991)
* "SILO" (1993)
* "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1994)
* "Desperately Seeking Helen" (1999)
* "The Tourist" (2006)
* "Lolita Diaries" (2008)

ee also

*List of female directors

External links

*imdb name|id=0548205|name=Eisha Marjara
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwbGfSfTaA Eisha Marjara's director's reel]
* [http://www.meet-the-tourist.com Official Homepage of "The Tourist"]
* [http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=8389 Interview with Eisha Marjara on "The Tourist"]
* [http://www.nfb.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?id=33640&v=h&lg=en&exp=$%7BEisha%7D Official Site of the National Film Board of Canada on "Desperately seeking Helen"]
* [http://www.semainedelacritique.ch/1999/helen.html Article on "Desperately seeking Helen"]
* [http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/archives/desperate.html Article on "Desperately seeking Helen"]
* [http://www.rediff.com/us/2000/apr/24us1.htm Review of "Desperately seeking Helen"]
* [http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=33640&v=h&lg=en&exp=$%257BEisha%257D Marjara and "Desperately seeking Helen" at the NFB Canada]