Anjali
Directed by Maya Anand, 15min

‘Anjali’ is a drama about Anjali Gupal, a rebellious Indian-American teenager whose family struggles daily to accommodate both their traditional Indian values alongside more contemporary American concerns. When Anjali brings her boyfriend home to have sex, she is surprised to find someone else is already there. Anjali investigates, only to secretly witness her father with another woman. Faced with this devastating information, Anjali must decide whether she will share her secret, and risk destroying the family her mother has so earnestly committed herself to. Finally, Anjali must bring herself to begin to see her parents as the flawed adults they really are.

Biography
Maya Anand was born and raised in New York. After receiving her B.A. in English from Harvard University in 2003, Maya remained in Cambridge, Massachusetts to study filmmaking with director Hal Hartley. In 2004 she returned to New York and worked for producer Robert Greenhut on several feature films in New York, including Sidney Lumet’s “Find Me Guilty” and Kirsten Sheridan’s “August Rush.” Maya is a recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Student Development Award and the 2007 Academy Internship Program Fellowship. She is currently pursuing her M.F.A. at the Film Division of the Columbia School of the Arts.