On The Red Carpet with NetSAP DC
NetSAP DC hosted its Oscar themed Third Thursday event on February 19th, 2009. Third Thursday is the chapter’s monthly networking event and included a creatively crafted menu of 5 mixed drinks named after the best movie nominees, a Red Carpet, and Oscar ballots which were used to enter into a drawing for 2 tickets to AMC Theaters.
NetSAP DC members Kamana Sharma, Vinod Belani, and Purti Bali were featured and interviewed in a segment produced by Voice of America. Members were asked to comment about the success of Slumdog Millionaire in the U.S. and to share their Oscar predictions. The interview was done by Voice of America correspondent, Aunshuman Apte and the segment was also aired on Zee TV the same weekend in India. Please click here to view the segment
Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of 134 million people.
