South Asian art and fashion are set to be featured at the SXSW festival in Austin in March 2023. It is for the first time in its 37-year history that an initiative of this sort has been designed to discuss art, fashion, and climate change at such an important international forum.
A large number of filmmakers and fashion designers from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives are invited to the event, scheduled for March 11 and 12, 2023.
The purpose is to recognize South Asian talent and filmmakers who have been featured at past SXSW festivals, as well as those nominated for the 2022 Oscars.
Veteran producers, curators, and programmers Rohi Mirza Pandya (Box Office Guru Media and Desipina), Monika Samtani (Ms. Media and The Fem Word), Jitin Hingorani (Jingo Media and DFW South Asian Film Festival), and Kirtana Banskota (Banskota Productions and Nepal America Film Society) are behind the idea to celebrate the event in an innovative way
SXSW director of global sales, Neil Minocha, said: “South Asians are one of the most accomplished minority groups living and working in the U.S. As a proud South Asian, I have been working towards this kind of programming for years.
I look forward to paying tribute to the vast contributions the diaspora has made in almost every major industry through the establishment of the South Asian House.”
