‘The Gas Station Attendant’ Trailer: A Daughter Reflects On Her Immigrant Father’s Pursuit Of The American Dream In Sheffield DocFest Premiere

EXCLUSIVE: The pursuit of the American Dream took Shantha Murthy all of the means from a village in India to Houston, Texas, a adventure of greater than 8,000 miles. He got here to the U.S. throughout the excellent graces of a Texas couple who backed his visa utility, however his dream of good fortune, alas, wouldn’t be learned.

Years after Murthy made that life-changing resolution to go to Texas, his daughter Karla Murthy explores his tale and their dating within the documentary The Gas Station Attendant. It makes its global premiere in International Competition at Sheffield DocFest within the U.Ok. on Thursday, June 19. We have your first have a look at the movie within the trailer above.

“Karla Murthy’s film weaves together home videos and phone conversations recorded during her father’s stint as a gas station attendant, while also reflecting on her own identity as a first-generation American,” notes a synopsis. “What emerges is an intimate love letter – a meditation on a complicated father-daughter relationship and a poignant tribute to the immigrant working class.”

The Gas Station Attendant is a co-production of Greene Fort Productions LLC, ITVS, Firelight Media and the Center for Asian American Media. In addition to the arena premiere on June 19, the movie will display screen on Saturday, June 21. Murthy is anticipated to be available for Q&As following each screenings.

Murthy is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who made her directorial debut with 2020’s The Place That Makes Us, which screened at a lot of movie gala’s and premiered at the public tv collection America ReFramed. Her 2023 brief movie, Love, Jamie, a couple of transgender artist incarcerated in Texas, is now streaming on PBS American Masters.

Murthy grew up close to Houston and graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. She edited The Gas Station Attendant and shot the movie together with fellow cinematographers Andrew Fredericks, Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana, and Andy Sarjahani. Murthy and Rajal Pitroda produced the movie. Bobak Lotfipour composed the rating.

The documentary boasts an excellent cadre of government manufacturers together with Carrie Lozano, Geeta Gandbhir, Rekha Malhotra, Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, Stephen Gong, and Donald Young.

Watch the trailer for The Gas Station Attendant above.