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American Baby: A Short Film about the Lunch Line

I'm on the way to making a feature film -- and you can be part of the fuel that will get help get this rocket there!

American Baby is a short film about two Indian expats ordering tacos for the first time and holding up the lunch rush. It's part of my push to create more diverse main character roles for brown and black actors in cinema.

This is a deep look into one moment with Kavitha and Balaji, expecting parents, who are trying to find their feet in a new country.


With your help, we can get professional level crew, actors, and editors to get this film out in front of film festival audiences, judges, and potential investors. Making this short continues the momentum we're making towards the 90 minute feature that will include Kavitha and Balaji in mid-life as parents of a teenager.

Because this time last year, we made our first film together. With the generous support of 111 backers, Me Against the World, the first in this series, was filmed, edited, and now screening worldwide. See below for more information on how I got started on this adventure of filmmaking.

It stars Mala, you guessed it, Kavitha and Balaji's daughter in college, working as an academic tutor, who has a basketball-playing tutee.


Below is a list of the awards the short has garnered thus far:
*Crown Wood International Film Festival, Best Director/Best Female Short Award Winner
*Only the Best Film Awards, Best Romance Short
*National Short Film Festival, Quarter Finalist
*Vyre Film Festival, Finalist
*Halic Goldenhorn Festival, Finalist

*First International Short and Symbolic Art Film Festival, Official Selection
*Chambal International Film Festival, Official Selection
*The Film Collective, Official Selection
*Paris Shorts Film Awards, Official Selection
*Florence Film Awards, Official Selection
*New York Movie Awards, Official Selection
*The Film Collective, Official Selection
*Luminous Frames, Nominee
*UK Asian Film Festival, Official Selection
*Sarasota Film Festival, Official Selection
*Roosevelt Island Film Festival, Official Selection
*MOM Film Festival, Official Selection
*Montauk Film Festival, Official Selection
*Love and Hope Film Festival, Official Selection
*Charlotte Film Festival, Official Selection


With your help, we can keep making these quality films that showcase diverse characters as the leads of their own stories, not merely minors in the footnotes of others.

**Please note that there are no raffles, sweepstakes, giveaways, or promotions are offered in exchange for any donations made to this GoFundMe**

Organizer

Mohana Rajakumar
Organizer
Springfield, VA

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