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'Farah Goes Bang' Director Meera Menon Talks About Her Fresh Take on The Road Movie: Tribeca Film Festival
Date posted: April 15, 2013In her first in-depth interview about her film 'Farah Goes Bang,' director/co-writer Meera Menon explores ethnic, political and feminine identities in Bush-era America. Tribeca: Farah Goes Bang explores so many different genres: the road movie, the sexual coming of age movie, the political film...
Read moreMeet The Tribeca Filmmakers #10: Meera Menon Creates A Picture of Idealized Youth and Female Friendship in 'Farah Goes Bang'
Date posted: April 15, 2013After her family immigrated to the U.S. from India in the 1970s, Meera Menon split her time between Indian dance concerts, the mall and filming her friends in the backyard with her father's camcorders. She grew up in a house of artistsand now with "Farah Goes Bang," has finally finished her first fe...
Read moreHOT TRIBECA TRAILER: FGB on Deadline.com
Date posted: April 15, 2013EXCLUSIVE: Nikohl Boosheri (Circumstance) stars in writer-director Meera Menon’s debut feature as a young woman who hits the road with girlfriends to stump for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Along the way, Farah hopes to lose her virginity. The coming-of-age road movie premieres at Tribeca...
Read moreCrowdfunded Cinema: ‘All That Remains,’ ‘Afghanistan,’ ‘We Grew Up Here’ & More
Date posted: April 27, 2012Why It Should Be Kickstarted: It’s a curious choice of setting, but also a fun twist on the typical coming of age story of sexual awareness. It’s also refreshing that a story dealing with female sexuality would have driven, intellectual characters........
Read moreFaster Times: Faster Filmmaker Q&A: “Farah Goes Bang” Writer-Producer Laura Goode on Building a Woman-Powered Business Partnership, Seizing Destiny, and, um, Swiping the V-card
Date posted: April 27, 2012...
Read moreRacialicious: Brown Girls On Film: A Conversation With The Writers Of Farah Goes Bang
Date posted: April 26, 2012Soon-to-be-made indie film Farah Goes Bang, co-written by Laura Goode and Meera Menon, follows three friends in their twenties–one Persian, one Indian, and one white–who hit the road to campaign for John Kerry in 2004. One of them is also on a quest to lose her long-lingering virginity along the way...
Read moreInterview with director Meera Menon in Hyphen Magazine
Date posted: April 23, 2012...
Read moreFeministing gives a shout out to CHERRY BOMB!
Date posted: April 17, 2012...
Read moreCHERRY BOMB in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Date posted: April 12, 2012Today I wrote a story about my sexual initiation. I forwarded my story to my friends, we discussed, they wrote down theirs. Turns out one of my loved ones did the deed over half an ecstasy pill on Staten Island. Another's first time was with a boyfriend so unmemorable that she couldn't remember iden...
Read moreWriter/Producer Laura Goode on Adrienne Rich
Date posted: April 3, 2012I didn’t have time to be devastated on the day Adrienne Rich died, but I still couldn’t keep back the tears. Like so many others, Rich was The One to me, America’s greatest living everything I ever wanted to be: a titan of poetry, an icon of feminism. The woman who articulated the fundamental truth...
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