Career

Although her feature film The Incredible Shrinking Woman already achieved international recognition in 1994 and received an Honourable Mention at the Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, it was the feature documentary production Desperately Seeking Helen that put her name on a list of promising new talents to critics around the world. The movie shows the filmmaker on a journey to India, exploring her own Indian roots by following the career of acclaimed Bollywood movie star and vamp Helen Richardson Khan. The movie received the jury award of the Munich documentary film festival in 2000 as well as the Prix de La Semaine Critique at the Locarno International Film Festival

Locarno International Film Festival

The Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...

 the same year. Marjara's Canadian-German co-production The Tourist had its first showing at the 24th Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois in 2006.

Filmography

• 25 hrs. (1991)
• SILO
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  (1993)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1994)
• Desperately Seeking Helen (1999)
• The Tourist (2006)
• Lolita Diaries (2008)

External links

• Eisha Marjara's director's reel
• Official Homepage of "The Tourist"
• Interview with Eisha Marjara on "The Tourist"
• Official Site of the National Film Board of Canada on "Desperately seeking Helen"
• Article on "Desperately seeking Helen"
• Article on "Desperately seeking Helen"
• Review of "Desperately seeking Helen"
• Marjara and "Desperately seeking Helen" at the NFB Canada