Special packages # 1
Women Making Films – Curated by Vaishnavi Sundar
The
World Before Her
Dir :
Nisha Pahuja; 152 min
The
World Before Her is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2012. Written and
directed by Nisha Pahuja, the film explores the complex and conflicting
environment for young girls in India by profiling two young women participating
in two very different types of training camp — Ruhi Singh , who aspires to
become Miss India, and Prachi Trivedi, a Hindu nationalist with the Durga
Vahini.
A Pinch
of Skin
Dir:
Priya Goswami; 27 min
A Pinch
of Skin is documentary on the Female Genital Cutting in India. The film
juxtaposes voice of questioning dissent along with pro tradition voice; to
weave complex fabric of the social norm which propells the community to cut
their seven year old daughters.
Bachelor
Girls
Dir:
Shikha Makan; 65 min
In the
heart of Mumbai, the leading urban metropolis of India, single independent
women are facing housing discrimination because of their status of being
'unmarried'. ‘Bachelor Girls' as labeled by the society, struggle to find homes
amidst many biases, and question the idea of freedom for women in today's
modern India.
Banaz a
love story
Dir
:Deeyah Khanl; 70 min
This is
a documentary film chronicling an act of overwhelming horror -- the honour
killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British woman in suburban London in 2006,
killed and "disappeared" by her own family, with the agreement and
help of a large section of the Kurdish community, because she tried to choose a
life for herself.
Vaishnavi
Sundar:
Ex
corporate PR, writer, filmmaker and a feminist. Merging activism and art
through films, she has founded the production company, Lime Soda Films (www.limesodafilms.com) to produce feminist content. She is also the founder of
Women Making Films (www.wmfindia.com), a community for female filmmakers to
come together and collaborate.
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