Shabana Azmi, Mallika Sarabhai, Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair, Madhur Jaffrey, Salman Rushdie, and Shashi Tharoor serve on the IAAC Advisory Board.
[13] NYIFF is IAAC's annual film festival which is held in New York City at Tribeca Cinemas.
[citation needed] The first MIAAC Film Festival took place on November 1-4th, 2001 at Manhattan’s Imagin Asian theatre.
Many films had their world, national, or New York premiere at the festival, including Monsoon Wedding, Born Into Brothels, Bride and Prejudice, The Namesake, and Slumdog Millionaire.
[2] The festival also holds a sidebar retrospective on a prominent Indian filmmaker, actor, or artist.
Most notable performers include dancers from the Natya Academy, Rukmini Vijayakumar, and Mandakini Trivedi.
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Samir Chatterjee, Kiran Ahluwalia, and A. R. Rahman are a few of the musicians who have performed with IAAC.
[17] IAAC hosts book launches and signings for Indian authors in New York City, and are usually held at a local art gallery.
The genres of books released include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cookbooks, and graphic novels.