Films Made By Dr. Arifa Javed
Self-Financed by the Producer
Available on DVD/Blu-Ray and Streaming and Screening
Teaser- Cross Culture and Religion: Indian Christians in America
Here comes my new production, Cross Culture and Religion-Indian Christians in America. This marks the fourth step in the completion of my Peoples of India Series dedicated to promote cultural understanding about different communities of Indian origin who have now made America their home. Each of my production has paved a step further in the ethnic enrichment of fellow American citizens with whom we now share our existence. A new documentary film by Producer/Writer Dr.Arifa Javed
Directed by Junaid Imam
Cross Culture and Religion-Indian Christians in America
Director : Junaid Imam
Writer, Producer: Arifa Javed
Arifa Javed is a professor of Sociology in Detroit, MI. Born and raised in India, she began her teaching career at Jamia Millia University in New Delhi, India. Since immigrating to the United States in 1995, Dr. Javed’s research interests have centered on immigration, and the cultural, familial and personal issues associated with it.
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Many Passages of Time - A Story of Indian Muslims in America
This documentary film, the third in a series by Dr. Arifa Javed, tells a personal story of Indian Muslim immigrants in America—a unique group whose identity as outsiders both at home and abroad has shaped the complex intersectional addition they make to America’s social fabric of ethnic diversity.
Director : Merajur Rahman Baruah
Merajur (“Raj”) Rahman Baruah is an independent documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi, India. He attended the Film and Television Institute of India, and also has a Masters degree in Sociology and Mass Communication Research from Jamia Millia University in New Delhi. With numerous independent documentary films to his credit, Raj’s work has been featured at film festivals across India and beyond. He received the Commonwealth Vision Award in 2006 for the film “Beyond the Zero Line” from the Royal Commonwealth Society, United Kingdom. He also received Rajat Kamal Award for the best film on social issues at the 55th Indian National Film Awards, and the Best Director Award for his film “Shifting Prophecy” at the Hyderabad International Film Festival 2008.
Writer, Producer: Arifa Javed
Arifa Javed is a professor of Sociology in Detroit, MI. Born and raised in India, she began her teaching career at Jamia Millia University in New Delhi, India. Since immigrating to the United States in 1995, Dr. Javed’s research interests have centered on immigration, and the cultural, familial and personal issues associated with it.
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Making of the Film - Behind the Scenes
Many Passages of Time was one of the Official Selections featured in the Great Lakes International Film Festival 2022
The Season in the Mist - A Film on Sikhs in America
There is a fog of misunderstanding today surrounding immigrants and the immigration debate. This story of Sikhs in America which is the second in the series of documentaries by Dr. Arifa Javed, helps dispel that fog, recounting the experiences of this immigrant minority that provide important lessons for the polarized immigration debate today.
Director: Merajur Rahman Baruah
Merajur (“Raj”) Rahman Baruah is an independent documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi, India. He attended the Film and Television Institute of India, and also has a Masters degree in Sociology and Mass Communication Research from Jamia Millia University in New Delhi. With numerous independent documentary films to his credit, Raj’s work has been featured at film festivals across India and beyond. He received the Commonwealth Vision Award in 2006 for the film “Beyond the Zero Line” from the Royal Commonwealth Society, United Kingdom. He also received Rajat Kamal Award for the best film on social issues at the 55th Indian National Film Awards, and the Best Director Award for his film “Shifting Prophecy” at the Hyderabad International Film Festival 2008.
Writer, Producer: Arifa Javed
Arifa Javed is a professor of Sociology in Detroit, MI. Born and raised in India, she began her teaching career at Jamia Millia University in New Delhi, India. Since immigrating to the United States in 1995, Dr. Javed’s research interests have centered on immigration, and the cultural, familial and personal issues associated with it.
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Making of the Film - Featured at Film Festivals
Essential Arrival-Michigan's 21st Century Indian Immigrants
We recognize America as a ‘nation of immigrants,’ but that heritage is not just history: It continues to be built today. This film, the first in the series of documentaries made by Dr.Arifa Javed, focuses on a new featured player on America’s immigration stage, Indian immigrants.
For as large a role as this group will play in the coming decades, surprisingly little is known about who Indian immigrants are, what values drive them, and what they have to contribute to the contemporary American economy, striving to remain on top in a complicated globalized world. Interviewing experts from fields like law, sociology and public policy, in addition to many families of Indian immigrants in Michigan, this film paints a comprehensive, essential picture of Indian Americans.
Director: Merajur Rahman Baruah
Merajur (“Raj”) Rahman Baruah is an independent documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi, India. He attended the Film and Television Institute of India, and also has a Masters degree in Sociology and Mass Communication Research from Jamia Millia University in New Delhi. With numerous independent documentary films to his credit, Raj’s work has been featured at film festivals across India and beyond. He received the Commonwealth Vision Award in 2006 for the film “Beyond the Zero Line” from the Royal Commonwealth Society, United Kingdom. He also received Rajat Kamal Award for the best film on social issues at the 55th Indian National Film Awards, and the Best Director Award for his film “Shifting Prophecy” at the Hyderabad International Film Festival 2008.
Writer, Producer: Arifa Javed
Arifa Javed is a professor of Sociology in Detroit, MI. Born and raised in India, she began her teaching career at Jamia Millia University in New Delhi, India. Since immigrating to the United States in 1995, Dr. Javed’s research interests have centered on immigration, and the cultural, familial and personal issues associated with it. Now, in her first project intended for general, non-academic audiences, Dr. Javed seeks to portray the unique experience of Indian immigrants in the documentary film, “Essential Arrival: Michigan’s Indian Immigrants in the 21st Century.
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