<\/a>Meera Menon’s film ‘Farah Goes Bang’, showing in festival’s Viewpoints section, follows an awkward twenty-something trying to lose her virginity while campaigning for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nNEW YORK – Meera Menon, a first time writer-director of Indian origin, has won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the 12th annual Tribeca film festival here.<\/p>\n
She was chosen from eight contenders for the USD 25,000 prize, constituted in honour of the late writer-filmmaker of iconic movies like ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and ‘Julie & Julia’.<\/p>\n
Menon’s film ‘Farah Goes Bang’, showing in festival’s Viewpoints section, follows an awkward twenty-something trying to lose her virginity while campaigning for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.<\/p>\n
“As a filmmaker I had always been inspired by Nora, she emblematized how to take pain and suffering and turn them into laughter and joy. Those qualities inspired me and my co-filmmakers.<\/p>\n
“Receiving this incredible honor in her name means more than I could ever articulate,” said Menon after being presented with the prize by TFF co-founder Jane Rosenthal and Sally Singer, Vogue’s creative digital director at the annual Women’s Filmmaker Brunch here.<\/p>\n
Rosenthal said Menon’s debut film “captures the spirit and themes of Nora’s work”.<\/p>\n
Singer was impressed by the use of humour in Menon’s film to address questions related to cultural rifts.<\/p>\n
“To me, this is a film that gives voice to deep emotions and cultural rifts with wry humour. Like the body of Nora’s work, Meera’s film is both immensely clever and compassionate,” said Singer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Meera Menon’s film ‘Farah Goes Bang’, showing in festival’s Viewpoints section, follows an awkward twenty-something trying to lose her virginity while campaigning for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. NEW YORK – Meera Menon, a first time writer-director of Indian origin, has won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the 12th annual Tribeca film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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