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Thursday, 23 April 2009

Award winning Australian-Indian filmmaker Safina Uberoi will visit The University of Western Australia on Tuesday 28 April to give a free public lecture on aspects of integrating biography into filmmaking.

The lecture will be preceded by a screening of her short film My Mother India, an autobiographical work that won 11 major international awards including the Australian Film Critics Circle Award for best Australian documentary.

Ms Uberoi also directed an episode about the British-Asian writer Meera Syal for the award winning BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? She wrote and directed 1800-India for PBS which won the Golden Eagle award.

Her new film, The Good Man , which premiered at the Adelaide Festival in March, will be shown on ABC television later this year.

WHAT: Public Lecture - "Self/Representation: Biography in Film".

WHEN: Tuesday, 28 April 2009, from 6pm to 8pm.

WHERE: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA. The nearest car park is P3 off Hackett Drive Entrance 1.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Media references

Audrey Barton (UWA Institute of Advanced Studies) (+61 8) 6488 1340
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs) (+61 8) 6488 5563 / (+61 4) 32 637 716

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