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2004 ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE    |
“A remarkable and moving story.”
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David Ansen, Newsweek
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| A photo taken by 13-year-old Gour, one of the children featured in BORN INTO BROTHELS, directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski. A THINKFilm release in association with HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films. |
DIRECTED BY ZANA BRISKI & ROSS KAUFFMAN
USA, 2003
85 MINS.
IN ENGLISH AND BENGALI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
THINKFilm IN ASSOCIATION WITH HBO / CINEMAX DOCUMENTARY FILMS
BRITISH PHOTOJOURNALIST ZANA BRISKI INTENDED TO
RECORD THE LIVES OF CALCUTTA’S PROSTITUTES, but
soon found that it was the children of the Sonagachi red
light district — even lower on society’s pecking order —
who were more accessible to her. Briski gains their trust
by teaching a photography workshop — complete with
portfolio evaluation and end-of-semester gallery show —
the kind of after-school activity you’d expect to find on
Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Making art is a lot more
constructive than hanging around the benighted
honeycomb of tenements these children call home. Can
this encounter with outsiders from another culture
change the trajectory of their lives? Winner of the
Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Available at Amazon:
BORN INTO BROTHELS
by Zana Briski, Children of Calcutta
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