Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a special screening and Q&A featuring Seat at the Table. The film documents the rise of South Asian Americans in U.S. politics, tracing their journey from the margins toward power. Co-directors Sarita Khurana and Yoav Attias follow several prominent South Asian political candidates during the 2024 election cycle, alongside a community galvanized by the groundbreaking campaign of the first South Asian presidential candidate. Within a hundred years, South Asians in America have gone from being disenfranchised to seeing the first South Asian presidential candidate on a major party’s ticket.
After the screening, hear directly from the co-directors, alongside other guest speakers, during a live Q&A.
Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
Sarita Khurana is an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes A SUITABLE GIRL (2017 Best New Documentary Director at Tribeca Film Festival, Netflix, Amazon); THE LAST RESORT (2025, Best Documentary at ISAFF Canada); and CROSSROADS (2022, Emmy Nominee as part of the series ASIAN AMERICAN STORIES OF RESILIENCE AND BEYOND; Winner Best Documentary, Chicago SAFF). Sarita's films have been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the International Documentary Association, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Women's Giving Circle, Women in Film, PBS/World Channel and the Center for Asian American Media among others. Sarita holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University.
Yoav Attias is an award-winning filmmaker and creative director. He is the co-director of FAULT LINES, a feature documentary about the housing crisis that premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2024. He was a producer for the Peabody Award-winning docu-series BRICK CITY featuring Cory Booker as the mayor of Newark. He served as the showrunner on CHICAGOLAND, an 8-hour docu-series for CNN, which was Executive Produced by Robert Redford and received widespread critical acclaim. He was also co-creator of the TV docu-soap GAINESVILLE on CMT/Viacom, and supervising producer on OCEAN WARRIORS, which was produced for Animal Planet and Paul Allen's production company, Vulcan.
