LK: Doing shorts and music videos was helpful in building skills and being comfortable shooting…but there were still many things I had to learn. Did your background as a director of short films and music videos give you the sufficient preparation for undertaking such a huge step up in your filmmaking career? And how did you work up the nerve to tackle such an ambitious project? They have played such a generous hand in helping us promote and spread the word, and I don’t know where we’d be without them.ĪF: Let’s step back a bit and talk a bit about the making of THE TIGER HUNTER. We owe a lot of this success to the festivals that supported us and gave us the light of day during our festival run, and it’s been crucial - both from a matter of integrity and strategy - to work closely with these festivals and their supporting organizations in promoting the film. Lena Khan: It’s a huge opening, and we are excited but nervous! We are opening in over 50 cities, and we are set to play in over 70 after a bit and maybe more. How extensive an opening will this be, and how important will it be to reconnect with all the new friends you and your producers made during THE TIGER HUNTER’s festival run last year to ensure its success?

al., the significance of Khan - an Indian Canadian filmmaker and alumnus of the UCLA School of Film, Television, and Digital Media - as a South Asian woman director/screenwriter NOT named Mira Nair took center stage, as did her motivations for setting her story in 1970s Chicago.Ībraham Ferrer: First off Lena, congratulations on the impending theatrical release on Sept. While the following conversation with Visual Communications staff member Abraham Ferrer delves only obliquely with the lingering controversies over THE BIG SICK and MASTER OF NONE, et.

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