One lucky winner of How Do You Remember: A Mighty Heart Contest will have an opportunity to meet some of the actors and a producer of the film. After an advanced screening of "A Mighty Heart", the winner will be able to sit down for a Q&A session with Archie Panjabi, Irrfan Khan and Dede Gardner!
Learn more about the talent behind the new film A Mighty Heart, opening in theaters on June 22nd.
ARCHIE PANJABI (Asra Nomani)
Archie made her film debut in the smash hit Film Four/Miramax comedy EAST IS EAST in 1999. The film received a standing ovation in Cannes and was the years biggest homegrown hit. The film won The Evening Standard Best Film Award and the prestigious Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film in 2000. Best known for her starring role her starring role opposite Keira Knightley in the hugely successfully British film BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, Archie won a BBC Mega Mela award for her performance, while the film was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British film in 2003. She later worked alongside David Morrissey in THIS LITTLE LIFE, a powerful BBC film directed by Sarah Gavron. The drama won two BAFTA Awards in 2004.
She went on to star in the critically acclaimed film YASMIN, written by Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar® nominated writer of The Full Monty. She was awarded the Best Actress award at The Reims Festival for her performance. In the same year Archie was also awarded The Shooting Star Award at the International Berlin Film Festival. The award is given to actors who are seen as “the most exciting and emerging actors from across Europe” (European Film Promotion). Previous winners include Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig.
Most recently Archie appeared in Fernando Meirelles’s Oscar® winning film THE CONSTANT GARDENER. She followed that role in Ridley Scott’s romantic comedy A GOOD YEAR opposite Russell Crowe.
Archie has also worked on a number high profile television projects. In 2002 she worked on WHITE TEETH, a four-part Channel 4 adaptation of Zadie Smith’s award-winning novel and followed up that role with the BAFTA winning BBC drama SEA OF SOULS. Archie’s next project was the BBC drama GREASE MONKEYS, which earned her a Best Actress nomination from the Royal Television Awards, followed by the BAFTA and Emmy nominated satire A VERY SOCIAL SECRETARY for Channel 4. Archie also provides voices for several characters in the hugely popular animated series POSTMAN PAT.
She previously worked with director Michael Winterbottom on the CODE 46, opposite Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton.
IRRFAN KHAN (Captain)
A graduate of the National School of Drama in New Delhi, India, Irrfan Khan gave his first screen performance in a short but searing scene in Mira Nair’s 1988 debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! He became a household name in India with his role in the popular Hindi sitcom Banegi Apni Baat.
Khan’s unconventional looks helped him secure the coveted title role in the 2003 film Maqbool, a Hindi interpretation of “Macbeth” set in the Bombay underworld. He gave another award-winning performance that year in Hassil, playing a manipulative student leader in this critically acclaimed love story.
Khan’s most challenging role to date came in British director Asif Kapadia's The Warrior, the Hindi-language drama that won the BAFTA award for Best British Film in 2003. In the title role, Khan portrays a man who is transformed from predator to prey after renouncing his violent life in the service of a cruel feudal lord.
Khan most recently starred in Mira Nair’s The Namesake. Khan also recently filmed The Darjeeling Limited, for director Wes Anderson.
DEDE GARDNER (Producer)
As President of Plan B Entertainment, Dede Gardner most recently produced Year of the Dog, the directorial debut of screenwriter Mike White (The Good Girl, School of Rock). Also forthcoming is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck and directed by Andrew Dominik, as well as THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana with director Robert Schwentke. Plan B is currently developing projects with filmmakers Bennett Miller (Capote), Jacob Estes (Mean Creek), John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig), Phil Morrison (Junebug) and Pete Travis (Omagh).
Before joining Plan B, Gardner was executive vice president of production at Paramount Pictures. During her eight years at the studio, she worked on such films as Election, Orange County, Zoolander and How To Lose A Guy in Ten Days. She worked previously in the literary department at the William Morris Agency and prior to that at Innovative Artists. Gardner began her career as a location scout in New York City.
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Comments: 9
Carolyn K
Anyway, regardless of what religion Mrs. Pearl practices or not, the point is that HER Mighty Heart could forgive the men who so brutally committed the crime of maliciously and heartlessly murdering her husband.
How many people do you know would forgive this kind of behavior?
I give kudos to both Marianne Pearl, and Angelina Jolie (and others who made the film possible) for sharing this painful story with us. We, as citizens of this globe, deserve to know this story. For it is true.