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NYIFF 2026-Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code
Director: Ben Rekhi, Svetlana
Run time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Language: English
Post screening Q&A with director Ben Rekhi & Protagonist Kanwal Rekhi in attendance.
Synopsis:
A son retraces his father's journey from Indian immigrant to Silicon Valley tech pioneer, uncovering a powerful story of migration, sacrifice & love that transcended borders & broke the glass ceiling of Indians in America.
Ben is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Punjabi & American. After getting his start with the Coen Brothers in the camera department of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Rekhi went on to produce the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Bomb the System, direct the SXSW Audience Award-Winner Waterborne, & write the English Dialogues for Ben Kingsley in the Bollywood film Teen Patti. In 2010, Rekhi joined film finance company IM Global where he was a producer on Plush for director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) & went on to oversee the Hindi-language film slate in India for Jason Blum. Rekhi returned to directing with The Ashram, a spiritual thriller starring Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo, Kal Penn, & Radhika Apte, & his third feature Watch List was a crime thriller co- financed by Bron Studios & executive produced by XYZ Films. His fourth film The Reunited States was executive produced by Van Jones & Meghan McCain, he is currently in post production on the adaptation of Aravind Adiga's Last Man In Tower, & on the awards campaign for his documentary short The Breakthrough Group.
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