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Article: From "their eves" to "new eves": suffering victims and cultivated aesthetics in born into brothels.(Born Into Brothels movie)
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- June 22, 2007
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Born Into Brothels may be an ideal test case for certain questions about the state of documentary: an independent movie that won an Academy Award, a narrative crowd-pleaser with a real-world agenda, a work shot on video about the uses of film--it embodies and engages a range of contradictions and paradoxes. Directed by British photojournalist Zana Briski and US film editor Ross Kauffman, the film follows Briski's project of teaching photography to a group of children who live in Sonagachi-Calcutta, India's red-light district--as well as Briski's efforts to get these children of sex workers admitted into boarding schools. Perhaps the film's central paradox is its reliance ...
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Transcript: Interview: Zana Briski discusses her documentary film ...
NPR All Things Considered;
December 6, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... documentary film "Born Into Brothels" Host: MELISSA ... She lived in a brothel in one of Calcutta ... Soundbite of "Born Into Brothels") Ms. ZANA ... film titled "Born Into Brothels" chronicles ... in the same brothel with her, and ...
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