Join us to see “Seat at the Table” and hear from the filmmakers and others on rise of South Asians in this arena.

The film follows several prominent South Asian political candidates during the 2024 election cycle, alongside a community galvanized by the groundbreaking campaign of the first South Asian presidential candidate. Within a hundred years, South Asians in America have gone from being disenfranchised, to seeing the first South Asian presidential candidate on a major party’s ticket.

Join us to see thsi film and hear from the filmmakers and others on rise of South Asians in this arena.

When: Thursday, Nov 19th at 6 PM
Where: City College of NY, Shepard Hall, Room 291 (second floor), 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street (SE Corner)

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Presented by Third World Newsrteel, the Documentary Forum at CCNY and AAARI (Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY)

Director/ Producer

SARITA KHURANA is an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes A SUITABLE GIRL (2017 Best New Documentary Director at Tribeca Film Festival, Netflix, Amazon); THE LAST RESORT (2025, Best Documentary at ISAFF Canada); and CROSSROADS (2022, Emmy Nominee as part of the series ASIAN AMERICAN STORIES OF RESILIENCE AND BEYOND; Winner Best Documentary, Chicago SAFF). Sarita’s films have been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the International Documentary Association, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Women’s Giving Circle, Women in Film, PBS/World Channel and the Center for Asian American Media among others. Sarita holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University.

Director/ Executive Producer

YOAV ATTIAS is an award-winning filmmaker and creative director. He is the co-director of FAULT LINES, a feature documentary about the housing crisis that premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2024. He was a producer for the Peabody Award-winning docu-series BRICK CITY featuring Cory Booker as the mayor of Newark. He served as the showrunner on CHICAGOLAND, an 8-hour docu-series for CNN, which was Executive Produced by Robert Redford and received widespread critical acclaim. He was also co-creator of the TV docu-soap GAINESVILLE on CMT/Viacom, and supervising producer on OCEAN WARRIORS, which was produced for Animal Planet and Paul Allen’s production company, Vulcan.