DFW South Asian Film Festival

Our Mission:

The Dallas/Fort Worth area is now home to its very own South Asian film festival. DFW SAFF is a four day festival taking place from February 8 to 11, 2018. We will showcase World, U.S. and Texas premieres of features, shorts and documentaries, all chosen to engage, educate and inspire audiences. We have chosen a wide range of films exploring issues that affect South Asians living and working in America, as well as our brothers and sisters back home.

Our Vision:

DFW SAFF exists to promote the perspectives and voices of the South Asian community by serving, organizing and advocating South Asian culture in the Greater Dallas Metroplex area through cinema.

 

The fourth annual DFW South Asian Film Festival will take place from February 8 to 11, 2018.

Opening night film & after party (February 8): 
Film Screening: Highland Park Village Theatre
Afterparty: Bistro 31
February 9, 10, 11: AMC Village on the Parkway 9

Jitin Hingorani - Festival Director

Arts and entertainment reporter, Communications Director, Director of Development and Marketing, Senior Publicist, Event Manager are all titles Jitin Hingorani has successfully held in his career in journalism, non-profit management, and public relations. His first job was working in broadcast news at CNN’s sister station in Texas, News 8 Austin, a Time-Warner-owned, 24-hour news channel, where he covered arts, religion, and general assignment news and anchored the weekend newscasts.

Passionate to serve his community, Jitin joined the battered women’s movement and served as the Communications Director for the National Domestic Violence Hotline and the Texas Council on Family Violence. To garner international event management and PR experience, Jitin joined The Miracle Foundation, a non-profit that brings life-changing care to the world's orphans, as their Director of Development and Marketing. During that time, Jitin organized the grand opening of an “ideal village” of orphanages in one of the poorest states in India. His ties with the Bollywood community enabled him to invite a major celebrity to come on board as the “brand ambassador” for the event, which led to earned media coverage inTimes of India, BBC World, Associated Press, and many others. Jitin has also successfully pitched and secured coverage on the Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Good Morning America, Variety, New Yorker Magazine, Time Out, John Walsh Show, and several other major media outlets.

When he moved to New York, Jitin served as the Senior Publicist for Great Performances and SundayArts at WNET/Thirteen, New York’s PBS affiliate. He has also been freelancing as the Manhattan arts and entertainment reporter for Asian Variety Show (AVS), a South Asian Bollywood cable program. As a television personality, Jitin has emceed the TimesofMoney Group’s “Light of India Awards,” which was broadcast on Sony Television in 150 countries around the world, as well as several fashion shows, film festivals, and dance events in New York City.

Jitin started Jingo Media in June 2010, and since then, his boutique PR and events management firm has retained several South Asian and mainstream clients, including Wells Fargo Bank, The Times of Money Group, The UB Group, Pratham, the Lodha Group, Friends of Hermione-Lafayette in America, American Foreign Policy Council, Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, the Erasing Borders Dance Festival, the I-View Film Festival, Exclusively.IN, Vikas Khanna’s “Holy Kitchens” series, The American University of Antigua, Kornhaber Brown, Amrita Singh Jewelry, and several others.

While handling the PR for the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) in New York, Jitin was inspired to create his own film festival, and he chose to partner with NYIFF to bring South Asian independent cinema to North Texas, as part of the first-ever DFW South Asian Film Festival. He will serve as the Festival Director and is committed to providing a platform for cinematic gems that are often overlooked.
 

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Ambica Dev - Artistic Director

Ambica Dev is the Artistic Director for the DFW South Asian Film Festival. Hailing from the Midwest, she is a proud Boilermaker with extensive experience in coordinating events. She also travels to different film festivals worldwide with Festival Director, Jitin Hingorani, to curate films especially for the DFW South Asian Film Festival. Growing up, she has been an avid Bollywood/Independent Film watcher and is excited to help provide a much-needed platform in North Dallas for others to enjoy this genre of films.