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Sujata Day’s buzzy directorial debut Definition Please premiered at Bentonville Film Festival and garnered a 2023 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Director in a Television Movie or Special. It later won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at San Francisco CAAM Fest, Best Feature Film at Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati, Outstanding Directorial Debut Award at South Asian Film Festival of America, and the Special Jury Award for Fresh Narrative Voice at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Theatrical distribution followed via Ava DuVernay’s Array, with the film now available for streaming via Netflix. Most recently, Definition Please won Best Narrative Feature Film at Next Generation Indie Film Awards. For her work illuminating race and mental illness on film, Day was additionally profiled for NBCUniversal News Group’s Inspiring America series. In celebrating the impact of women on and off screen, Women’s Voices Now honored Day with the first-ever"‘Women Making Waves" award for her strides in the film and TV industry.

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