The following new magazine scans have been added to the gallery. Happy reading!

Flare – April 2001
Curve – January/February 2009 (TLW related)
Heeb – Winter 2008/2009
TLW Season 6 ad

April 12, 2009 | Categories: Gallery Updates, I Live Here, Interviews, The L Word | 2 Comments | News Archive

At a Los Feliz café, Mia Kirshner seems nothing like Jenny Schecter, the narcissistic diva she portrays on the Showtime lipstick lesbian drama, “The L Word.” (more…)

February 04, 2009 | Categories: I Live Here, Interviews | 1 Comment | News Archive

Actress puts MIT class behind the camera

Nishima Chudasama held open the shop door for the man with the haunted eyes and bird’s nest beard and wondered about his life. Then she stopped wondering and started finding out.

Chudasama, a resource analyst in the Industrial Liaison Program, approached the man near the T station in Central Square and asked permission to interview him on camera for a short film project. He agreed.

Chudasama’s initiative was the result of the IAP class, “I Live Here (A Human Rights Multimedia Project),” led by actress and author Mia Kirshner. The class encouraged participants to seek out untold stories in the Boston area and turn them into two-minute films.
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January 28, 2009 | Categories: I Live Here, Public Appearances | 0 Comments | News Archive

I’m a few days late in posting this, but Mia is teaching at 2 week IAP course at MIT on the following dates: January 20, 22, 27 and 29. How exciting! Unfortunately I live no where near MIT so I won’t be able to attend, but I hope some of you will be able to make it. Click here for full details, directions and more. Thanks goes out to Larissa for contacting me about this.

Mirroring the multimedia approach of the book, this two-week course will ask you to create your own short video based on hidden stories that need to be heard within your own greater Boston community. The results will be featured on the I Live Here website, which links to Amnesty International’s homepage and the MIT Center for International Studies website. They will also be shown at a MIT public event with Mia Kirshner at the end of January.

January 22, 2009 | Categories: I Live Here, Public Appearances | 2 Comments | News Archive

October 22, 2008 – Mia Kirshner joined fellow contributors Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simmons to share their powerful “paper documentary” I Live Here at our Tribeca store.

Thanks to Larissa for the link.

January 22, 2009 | Categories: I Live Here, Media Alerts, Public Appearances | 2 Comments | News Archive

Source: Salon.com

On an unrelated note to those of you who emailed me over the past week/weekend, I will be responding very soon. I’ve been super busy at work and home and haven’t had a chance to catch up. I just wanted to write a quick note to let you know that I hadn’t forgotten about you.

January 20, 2009 | Categories: I Live Here, Interviews, Media Alerts | 0 Comments | News Archive

Best known for her role as The L Word’s bookish drama fiend Jenny Schecter, Mia Kirshner is very clear about one thing: to her, acting is a “day job.” Since 2001, the 33-year-old actress has devoted her extracurricular energies to I Live Here, a collage-style literary documentary of uprooted peoples in strife-torn nations that Random House released in November. The product of refugees herself (her father was born in a DP camp to Holocaust-survivors parents), Kirshner gives readers a gut-wrenching firsthand glimpse into the lives of the disenfranchised in such hotbeds of turmoil as Burma, Ciudad Juárez, Malawi, and the Russian republic of Ingushetia. With The L Word’s final season debuting in January and Kirshner planning to propel I Live Here into an even more ambitious outreach project, you have to wonder what she’ll be choosing as her next day job.
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December 09, 2008 | Categories: I Live Here, Interviews | 0 Comments | News Archive

David Rancken of KVIL radio station in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX was kind enough to email me this morning and let me know about the interview he did with Mia recently. You can either stream or download the podcast here (it’s the 2nd interview under “The Rancken File”) and it’s about 40 minutes in length. It’s a great listen, so do check it out when you have a moment.

December 02, 2008 | Categories: I Live Here, Media Alerts | 0 Comments | News Archive

The L Word‘s Mia Kirshner takes the plight of refugees and the displaced personally. As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a father born in a displaced persons camp in Germany shortly after World War II and a mother who’s a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, it would be hard not to.

Born and raised in Toronto, Mia studied Russian and English Literature at Montreal’s prestigious McGill University, before taking on the role of actress.

Never one to shy away from difficult subject matter, Mia has a fearless reputation in Hollywood, taking on numerous sexually challenging roles. She portrayed a dominatrix with psychic abilities in acclaimed Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand’s first English language movie, Love and Human Remains, she was a mysterious bisexual assassin in Fox’s 24, played the title role of murder victim and women whose sexuality was the source of much speculation in Brian De Palma’s Black Dahlia, and is a regular on the small screen as Jenny from The L Word, a Showtime drama based around the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women living in WeHo.

The recurring themes of female sexuality and empowerment, and the plight of those displaced by conflict collided, when, over a period of seven years and with the support Amnesty International, Mia journeyed around the world to gather the stories of women and children who were driven from their homes. From the war in Chechnya and the ethnic cleansing in Burma to those affected by globalization in Mexico and AIDS in Malawi, Mia tells the tales of individuals would otherwise not have a voice in a compelling and beautiful new book, I Live Here.

Below, Mia shares one of the stories from her journey, which came a little too close to her home.

“I chose this passage, because there is nothing extraordinary about what happened to me as this happens all over the world to most women on different levels. I have no shame in this anymore and am thankful that it is one of the reasons that made me want to put this book together.”

Mia Kirshner, November 2008

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November 24, 2008 | Categories: I Live Here | 1 Comment | News Archive

It’s a familiar story: Hollywood star takes up a cause, hops on an international flight and gets “do-gooder” attached to her name in gossip magazines.

The tendency has become so familiar, in fact, that we’ve grown to almost expect today’s celebrities to come with social causes — whether it be environmental concerns in the U.S., or malnutrition at the international level.

But few of those philanthropists come back with stories as detailed as Mia Kirshner’s.

Known for her role on Showtime’s “The L Word,” the actress has released “I Live Here,” a paper documentary chronicling her seven-year immersion into global stories of refugees and displaced people.

Proceeds from the book’s sales go to Amnesty International.
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November 23, 2008 | Categories: I Live Here | 0 Comments | News Archive