In the Wake of Remembering

Three women reflect on their memories of supporting the Burnsall Strike, a 1992 workers’ resistance movement that Punjabi women led in Birmingham. From within their memories, another voice emerges – narrating and reconstructing the forgotten wholeness of the lives of South Asian women in the UK.

2024 (19 mins)

Director/filmmaker: Sara Saini

Producer/production company: National Film and Television School, Sanjana Pathania.

Country of production: United Kingdom

Country/location of film: United Kingdom

Screening: 18.10 Wed 8th Oct at the Museum of Macedonia

Sara Saini is a documentary filmmaker and researcher from Delhi, currently based in London. She seeks to reflect upon lived experience at the intersection of gender, urban space, caste, and race through collection and recollection of oral history, personal narratives, memory, and archival material. Sara earned her Bachelor’s in Creative Arts, majoring in Film from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore (2014-2018) and is a recent graduate of the MA in Directing Documentary from the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK.