Smriti Mundhra
Sound accompaniment: a child making noises, a cellphone text pings, paper rustling, birds singing outside
Drinks: Iced coffee
Some things that joined us in the conversation: St. Louis Superman MTV premiere, Witness Al Jazeera, Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs, Sheila Nevins, Oscar nomination, Sami Khan best dressed, Taika Waititi, Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla, Poh Si Teng, Black Lives Matter, Jay Z autobiography, Spike Jonze, Coen brothers, Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director, A Suitable Girl, Three Identical Strangers, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, A-Doc, Film Fatales, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program, collective trauma of this time, Hoop Dreams, Paul Thomas Anderson Junun, Jonny Greenwood, Barbara Kopple, Harlan County, USA, Mira Nair, Salaam Bombay!, Ava DuVernay “did not pick up a camera until 32”, Susan Seidelman, Smithereens, Kelly Reichardt, Daughters of the Dust, Meshell Ndegeocello, Flannery O’Connor, Zakir Hussain
Smriti interviewed in the article RACISM, VIOLENCE AND BAD COPS: BLACK LIVES MATTER FILMMAKERS DEBATE HOW WE CAN FIX OUR BROKEN POLICE DEPARTMENTS
Her project for Netflix, that was unmentionable during our conversation, is now watchable!
Indian Matchmaking