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From India to America: Karla Murthy’s film spotlights her father’s immigrant struggles
‘The Gas Station Attendant’ will have a world premiere on June 19.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Mon, 16, Jun 2025
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The Gas Station Attendant is Murthy's homage to her father's struggles / The Gas Station Attendant
An intimate portrait of the immigrant experience in America is set to debut at this year’s Sheffield DOCFEST. ‘The Gas Station Attendant’, a deeply personal documentary by Emmy-nominated director Karla Murthy, will have its world premiere on June 19 at the Curzon Theater.
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Producer and editor Murthy’s venture is a deeply intimate film that showcases a journey from the streets of India to a gas-station in America. Murthy brings out her father’s life through recorded phone calls with her dad from when he worked nights at a gas station. The film also features home movies, past and present. This film depicts the immigrant experience, and the dreams immigrants carry with them.
In addition to the world premiere on June 19, the film will screen on June 21. Murthy is expected to be present for Q&As following both screenings.
The synopsis provided by ‘The Gas Station Attendant’ team describes the film as “an intimate love letter – a meditation on a complicated father-daughter relationship and a poignant tribute to the immigrant working class”.
Most recently, Murthy directed and edited the short film ‘Love, Jamie’ about a transgender artist incarcerated in Texas which premiered at OUTFEST LA and won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Short and was called “one of the best short documentaries” by Texas Monthly.
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