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Arts & Entertainment Editor @phillyinquirer | Programmer @docnycfest @sffilm | NYC/PHL (via CCU/DEL) | ✊🏾 🍞🌹
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We love talking to arts editor and film programmer Bedatri Choudhury about her work and passions! She has a constant pulse on what’s new, cool and worth watching, and the joy she brings to everything she does is infectious!
“I really just enjoy multiple perspectives. I’m fascinated with storytellers who take a story we all know and manage to tell it in a way that surprises us. I studied literature and have seen the best authors do that, filmmakers do that too. Of course the part of this interest is plain old curiosity. Tell me a story and blow my mind. Films are an eternal source of wonder and knowledge.”
Find the rest of her interview on our site! 🎬 #heyzuri
13 Nov 2026
Join us in NYC for our panel “Creating Space for Our Stories” on Monday, November 16! 🌟 🛺 🐈
Featuring @k_aytch (THE NOBLES), @khaithunguyen (THE DAO OF THAO), @kevkevtruong (MAI AMERICAN) and moderated by @docnycfest Senior Programmer @bedatridc, this panel explores how these filmmakers make work and carve out their own spaces for their stories. In a time of increased segregation and intolerance, these stories highlight people creating their own place within a predominant culture. Our conversation will include their filmmaking processes, Asian and Asian American themes in the films, and making space for our stories with their distribution plans. 💫
This event is for A-Doc members only. Spots are filling up fast and the form will be closing soon - please see the link in Slack #general #festivals for the link to RSVP. 👀
12 Nov 2026
We love a friend with great taste, and Bedatri has the best! 🎬 Bedatri is the Arts & Entertainment editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Senior Features Programmer for DOC NYC, so she always knows what’s new, cool, and worth watching. With the festival right around the corner, we asked her for her must-sees.
Her top picks:
🎞️ American Doctor by Poh Si Teng, who also gifted Bedatri her very first Zuri dress!
🎞️ Once Upon a Time in Harlem, William Greaves’ 1972 gathering of Harlem Renaissance artists and thinkers, finished by his son David
And her style? “Comfortable but not sloppy. As women, professional wear is often clothes that are too boxy. It is almost like we are expected to give up our femininity and dress like men to appear “respectable.” My favorite thing about Zuri dresses is that they make for excellent workwear: sleeves, collar, not too short...without compromising on fit and silhouette. They’re so stylish! It’s easy to throw on in the last minute and yet look put together. I cannot tell you the number of times I didn’t know what to wear and I reached for a Zuri dress and then received so many compliments!” Her favorites are her oldest Zuri, the Block Print dress, and her Shrimp shirt. 🦐
Thank you, Bedatri, for the recs and for wearing us so well! ✨ @bedatridc
10 Nov 2026
Overwhelmed by 200+ films to choose from? Programmer Bedatri D. Choudhury has thoughtfully curated this selection. Discover the lineup below:
MATERIA PRIMA
Sun, November 15 at 1:15 PM | @villageeastbyangelika
Wed, November 18 at 9:20 PM | @villageeastbyangelika
80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS
Thu, November 12 at 7:00 PM | @ifccenter
Fri, November 13 at 3:45 PM | @villageeastbyangelika
NEIGHBOURS OF THE BEAST
Mon, November 16 at 6:30 PM | @villageeastbyangelika
WITH LOVE AND RAGE
Mon, November 16 at 7:45 PM | @villageeastbyangelika
FROM DUST WE SPIN (International Premiere)
Sat, November 14 at 4:00 PM | @villageeastbyangelika
Tue, November 17 at 8:55 PM | @villageeastbyangelika
Get your tickets and explore more of Bedatri’s Programmer Picks at the link in bio.
08 Nov 2026
July and August on film.
Paris, Berlin, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Minneapolis, New York, Calcutta, Long Island Sound.
French graves, naked Germans, dancing Puerto Ricans, and angry Indians. Friends and the end of summer.
#theothersideofsummer #35mmfilm
18 Oct 2026
January to June on an expired film roll I fished out from Baba's cupboard. New Orleans, San Francisco, Berkeley, Saint-Martory, Toulouse.
A birthday, a film festival, a graduation, a wedding, and a layover.
#filmphotography #aroundtheworldin35mm
17 Sep 2026
To Momos, cha, croissants, Paris, Delhi, and beyond. Love you the moon and back @notapapermoon
Happy birthday love. Wish you puppies and fresh cut flowers forever.
#someleosarentpsycopaths
17 Aug 2026
Sonnenallee
#berlin #fürimmer #besterfreund
13 Aug 2026
My first words were my mother's. The first school interview answers, first essay, first song. All memorising and parroting Ma's words. Everything else that has come after is only inertia. What an inheritance! Happy birthday, Ma, first reader, first copyeditor, first critic, first fan.
03 Jul 2026
My trip to Paris last month began with frantic calls at boarding and crying through the whole eight hours of my flight because of something at work. Like many many others, Paris has always been a dream city for me. Museums, light, wine, cigarettes, perfectly painted nails. This time, I was most struck by the flower bins at Parisian windows. I took so many photos of them. Awed at the insistence on beauty, the persistence of whimsy, and the resistance of life. May we all grow flowers in the lots we're handed, no matter how the winds blow. May they always be watered.
#parisjetaime❤️
24 Jun 2026
At some point early in school, they had us make sandwiches. I made mine. Sliced cheese, white bread, not much else. I covered them up in napkins and brought them home for my Baba. Except he was posted in Port Blair. Ma put them in a box and sent them through the pilot flying into Port Blair the next day. Baba ate the insipid sandwiches and wrote me a letter saying they were great, especially the "presentation." The pilot brought that letter back in his return flight to Calcutta and handed it over to Ma. My childhood sounds like a strange fairytale of flights, faraway places, clouds, and letters. Often, it was just that. Orchestrated to perfection by my ever curious father who will always ask if you've drank enough water. Happy father's day, Baba. What a thrill and panic it has been to witness the depths of your patience and forgiveness. So many years have passed while I wasn't looking, I hope our tales get more magical.
21 Jun 2026
Every time I see a film where a mother takes her child to a protest or a rally, I cry. Whether it be a documentary, a feature, a short, or a narrative film. It's because I see my childhood and the eternal promise that my Ma made to me. That better days lie ahead, that we can bring those days forth if we demand hard enough.
Thank you, Ma. Happy mother's day.
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10 May 2026
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