Join us for the latest Indie Lens Pop-Up documentary series event with MEET THE PA at Tim Gill Center for Public Media. Brought to you by Rocky Mountain PBS and Independent Film Society of Colorado.
Join us for a short discussion afterward.
Meet the Patels
(2015, rated PG, 1h 28m)
Directed by siblings Ravi Patel and Geeta Patel, this award-winning film comes to you from Producer Janet Eckholm (AMERICAN SPLENDOR) and Academy Award Winning Executive Producer Geralyn Dreyfous (BORN INTO BROTHELS/THE SQUARE) and PBS. Meet the Patels is about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American actor who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams and his parents. Meet the Patels uses humor to address a timely social issue: In early 2009, directors, sister and brother team, Geeta and Ravi Patel began to explore and document the societal pressures of marriage in their first-generation Indian-American family. Through research in India and America, they discovered that their “Indian Issue” was more of an “American Issue”: the majority of Americans with strong cultural and religious roots shared a serious psychological conflict when it came to dating (and marrying) outside of their skin color, culture, religion, and ethnicity.
IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2378401/