{"id":24134,"date":"2012-10-30T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=24134"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:08:04","slug":"9th-south-asian-international-film-festival-closing-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=24134","title":{"rendered":"9th South Asian International Film Festival Closing Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9th South Asian International Film Festival Closing Film: Valley of Saints<br \/>\n10\/30 7:30pm<br \/>\nSVA Theater<br \/>\n333 West 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Street (between 8<sup>th <\/sup>and 9<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue) New York, NY 10011<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/3651_SAIFF_Closing_Night_2012.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24134]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24135\" title=\"Closing_Night_2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/3651_SAIFF_Closing_Night_2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"619\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director: Musa Syeed<br \/>\nProducer: Nicholas Bruckman<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Yoni Brook<br \/>\nStarring: Gulzar Bhat, Nellofar Hamid, and Afzal Sofi<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK PREMIERE<br \/>\nCountry\/Year: India\/2012<br \/>\nLanguage: Kashmiri (with English subtitles)<\/p>\n<p>Synopsis:<\/p>\n<p>Set in the endangered lake communities of Kashmir, Valley of Saints is a lyrical examination of steadfast loyalty and earnest love. When a military entrenchment traps Gulzar, a young tourist boatman, and his best friend Afzal in their lake village, their relationship with Asifa, a visiting environmental researcher, threatens their plans to escape their war-torn home. Widely-celebrate\u2014the film won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and Audience Award at Sundance earlier this year\u2014Valley of Saints makes its hometown debut with New Yorker and director Syeed in attendance.  For more: <a href=\"http:\/\/saiff.org\/2012\/index.php?p=closingnight\">http:\/\/saiff.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9th South Asian International Film Festival Closing Film: Valley of Saints 10\/30 7:30pm SVA Theater 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenue) New York, NY 10011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24137,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24134\/revisions\/24137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}