FESTIVAL DATE(S) & SUBMISSION DEADLINE: See Website For Details; LOCATION: Angelika Film Center in Plano - Plano, TX; DESCRIPTION: DFW South Asian Film festival provides a much-needed platform for independent, world cinema that will appeal to North Texas audiences who enjoy South Asian films.The festival showcases curated shorts, documentaries and feature films that focus on issues affecting the South Asian (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) sub-continent, as well as explore the lives and stories of the South Asian Diaspora in the United States.The festival includes Texas and U.S. premieres, after-parties, a red carpet, filmmaker Q&A's and much more. Programming includes dramas, thought-provoking shorts and documentaries, women's issues, LGBT films, children's and youth programming and more.