A recording of the Q & A with ZERO BRIDGE filmmaker Tariq Tapa, moderated by Farooq Papa of the WKDA, recorded February 16, 2011, at Film Forum

Summary: ZERO BRIDGE (1944): In the tradition of hard-hitting neo-realist filmaking comes ZERO BRIDGE, the debut feature of Tariq Tapa, a US-born filmmaker of Kashmiri/Jewish-American descent. Having spent his childhood summers in India-controlled Kashmir with his father’s family, he was committed to making a film of quotidian life, far from Bollywood fantasies and Western news reports of terrorism: Dilawar is a teenage pickpocket whose escape plans are complicated when he develops an uneasy alliance with a woman (herself fleeing an arranged marriage) whose passport he has stolen. ZERO BRIDGE is a story of two young people's struggle to retain their humanity, despite poverty, the traditional culture into which they’ve been born, and the fatalism, sexism and casual cruelty of their families. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker Tariq Tapa, moderated by Farooq Papa of the WKDA, recorded February 16, 2011, at Film Forum.