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UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Friday, May 3rd - New York, NY @ Tribeca Cinemas (NY Indian Film Festival)
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NICE WORDS ABOUT THE FILM
New York Magazine: "Sharply funny"
Interview Magazine: "Part No Reservations, part Big Brother, part something smarter,
with lots of laughs, something to learn, and - naturally, given the company - an amazing soundtrack"
BlackBook: "Five Out Of Five... Singh [has] the mark of a fanboy filmmaker not yet jaded by the Merchants Of Cool-hood of pop music."
Huffington Post: "Amrit Singh's freewheeling short film" is "a laid-back hipster's approach to Indian cuisine."
Hyphen Magazine: "Frankly, the peek at this brotherhood may be even more appealing than the food."
Times Of India: "‘Dosa Hunt’ is more than just a
search for New York’s best dosa. It’s a short film
about the Indian
community’s growth and search for
cultural roots in the US."
FROM THE PREMIERE
Billboard Magazine's Report on the Premiere Event // Pretty Photos Of Everyone All Dressed Up
MORE NICE PRESS
NPR: WNYC's Soundcheck with Amrit & Anand / Gothamist: On the project's backdrop. // FADER: On the poster and its artist.
Asian American Writers Workshop: Ashok Interviews Amrit
PRESS FOR THE TRAILER NYTimes // The Awl // Hipster Runoff // IFC // Gothamist // FADER // PAPER // BlackBook // Brooklyn Vegan // Stereogum // Videogum
Eater (x2) // NYMag (Grub Street) // Food Republic // Daily Meal // Food Is The New Rock // NY Street Food
Rolling Stone (Russia) // Triple J Radio (@ 24:30) // NPR (A Blog Supreme) // Absolute Punk
ELLE India // Mumbai Boss // The Wild City // Thamarai // MEX & The City
S! Clarín // NJ Underground // Mishka // City Paper
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CONTACTamritsinghproductions@gmail.com
@dosahunt //// facebook.com/dosahunt
ABOUT DOSA HUNTDOSA HUNT is a short film by Amrit Singh featuring a diverse group of music-world friends -- Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Das Racist's Himanshu Suri and Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu, Yeasayer's Anand Wilder, Neon Indian's Alan Palomo, jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, and Stereogum's Executive Editor, Singh -- on a quest to find their hometown's best dosa. The delicious traditional South Indian crepe has earned this long-overdue cinematic closeup. But our our heroes' journey -- bantering in an Indian disco van, eating their way through the restaurants and grocery stores of Manhattan and Queens -- also explores the shared and respective cultures of this vibrant group of NYC artists in the wilds of their city. DOSA HUNT is a snapshot of a transitional generation in America's immigrant/art experience, in hot pursuit of good food.
ABOUT AMRIT SINGH
Amrit Singh has served as Executive Editor of Stereogum.com for seven years, writing and producing the website into a leading voice in independent music. His video journalism has appeared on ABC, MTV, and Fuse. (He also served as Editor of the University of Wisconsin International Law Journal, and is a NY State Bar certified attorney, but please don't remind his father of this.) DOSA HUNT is his directorial debut. (Full bio.)
Written, Directed & Produced by Amrit Singh
Directed, Edited & Produced by Sam Carroll
Edited & Produced by Zoe Schack
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DOSA HUNT Screening @ San Francisco Asian Art Museum for CAAM Fest 2013
Proud to share that DOSA HUNT has been selected as the “New Directions” choice for CAAM Fest (formerly San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) 2013! The three-hour DOSA HUNT event will be Thursday, March 21st from 6-9PM at the SF Asian Art Museum. There will be the screening, a performance by Das Racist’s Heems and Dapwell as Indian Bastards From Hell, a Q&A with filmmaker Amrit Singh, a beer, and access to the museum’s new Chinese Terracotta Warriors exhibit. Dosa will be served from a food truck, and also in the museum’s restaurant (Café Asia, of course). If you are near San Francisco then, please join us, it’s going to be perfect.
Buy tickets right here, which are $25 until 2/14 when they jump up in price. Here’s info on CAAM. Here’s info on the Asian Art Museum. Here’s info on the Terracotta Warriors exhibit. Here’s a photo of an adorable dog.
COME HAVE DOSA IN A MUSEUM WITH US. Hope to see you.
Love, Dosa.
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Ashok And Amrit Go To The Movies
This is a long, digressive, and inordinately illuminating interview by Ashok of Amrit, wherein they find a connective thread on everything from blogging and lawyering to Britney Spears and the Wisconsin gurdwara tragedy, and of course, DOSA HUNT. It’s a good one, it is at the Asian American Writers Workshop.
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Announcing the opening run of DOSA HUNT @ Nitehawk Cinema in Williasmburg on Friday 10/5, Saturday 10/6, and Monday 10/8!
Each ticket comes with dosa and samosa (provided by the delicious Anjappar). After each screening there will be a Q&A panel moderated by music television great John Norris. The afterparties will have complimentary Kingfisher beer, with DJ sets by DFA Artist REWARDS (Friday), Jagjaguwar artist Small Black (Saturday), and Quinn Walker of Frenchkiss Records outfit Suckers (Saturday). Tickets are $15 — for dinner, screening, beer, and friendship. THAT’S PRETTY GOOD.
Friday and Saturday doors are at 11PM (with dosa at 12AM, screening at 12:30AM), while Monday is a Columbus Day matinee at 1PM, which will be a special time. Dosa and drinking is a great way to observe that holiday given how much that dude loved Indians.
That above is an event-specific variation on the official film poster, by NYC tattoo artist/godbody Anil Gupta. He is the best.
We’re really proud of the movie and can’t wait to share it with you. These will be beautiful celebrations. We’d love to have you.
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“THE GREATEST HUNT FOR SOUTH INDIAN FOOD IN NYC EVER COMMITTED TO FILM!”
Here is the trailer for DOSA HUNT, A Film By Amrit Singh.
Starring: Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend), Vijay Iyer (Vijay Iyer Trio), Ashok Kondabolu (Das Racist), Alan Palomo (Neon Indian), Amrit Singh (Stereogum), Himanshu Suri (Das Racist), Anand Wilder (Yeasayer)
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DOSA HUNT: An independent short film by Amrit Singh. Starring Anand Wilder (Yeasayer), Ashok Kondabolu (Das Racist), Amrit Singh (Stereogum), Vijay Iyer, Alan Palomo (Neon Indian, Vega), Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend, Discovery), Himanshu Suri (Das Racist). Set in Manhattan, Queens, and a van decorated like an Indian disco.
COMING SOON.
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editing @ edit1, nyc
![Photos from the DOSA HUNT Premiere @ Nitehawk Cinema on 10/5
[Img by Laura June Kirsch]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbk5vxTdbo1qcg8opo1_1280.jpg "http://dosahunt.com/post/33143361289/premiere-photos")
