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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0821575534253
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Velocity Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Velocity Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Running Time: 83 minutes
Sales Rank: 6961
Studio: Velocity Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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2004 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
BORN INTO BROTHELS is an inspiring look at the transformative journey of a group of extraordinary children in Calcutta’s red light district. Voted Best Documentary by the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. BORN INTO BROTHELS, which was produced and directed by New York based filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, also garnered over 20 major film festival awards including the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.
A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, BORN INTO BROTHELS is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta where their mothers work as prostitutes. Zana Briski, a New York based photographer, gives each of these youngsters a camera and teaches them how to take pictures, simultaneously causing them to look at their world with new eyes. Together with Ross Kauffman, Briski captures the magical way in which beauty can be found in the most unlikely of places and how a bright and promising future becomes a possibility for children who previously had no future at all.
Touching and heartfelt, yet devoid of sentimentality, BORN INTO BROTHELS defies the tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spent years with these children and became a part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities, and a true testimony to the power of the indelible creative spirit.
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Set in Calcutta's notorious red-light district, Born Into Brothels explores the lives of its most vulnerable citizens. Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, the picture’s eight small subjects shot the still footage themselves. Briski first teaches them how to shoot and edit. The children then put her lessons into practice. They gain confidence as the film proceeds, yet there's always the threat that any of the girls, especially 14-year-old Suchitra, could be forced to "join the line" (work as a prostitute). For most, it's only a matter of time. The boys don't have it much better. Promising photographer Avijit's mother is gone and his father is a drug addict. "Without help," Briski notes, "they're doomed," so she takes matters a step further and tries to get them out of the brothels altogether. Produced for HBO, this heartbreaking, if inspiring film won the 2005 Academy Award for best documentary feature. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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*Born into Brothels* is a documentary worth watching. Zana Briski came to Calcutta to film the Indian women working the "red light district". However, her attention is soon turned to the prostitutes' children living in the brothels.
What's special about this documentary is that Briski doesn't just film these children. She decided to give them a skill that they could use in their life. She introduced them to photography. Obviously, she is a brilliant teacher because the children ... Read More
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How hard it is to change people, a society, the ways of doing things, of behaving, of judging others.
Zana Briski is an amazing hero, who helps those of the children finally willing to take that help (against the blows of fortune and horrendous odds), trying to help others whose family or whose pre-shaped failings lead to their falling back into a seemingly inevitable life of poverty and dashed hope.
I will not soon forget these children and one woman's heroic effort to ... Read More
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Zana Briski spends two years or more in Calcutta brothels doing photography, and helping no one that we know of, and then decides it's time for her to try and help the children of prostitutes. Of course, for this part, she needs to bring a video camera to record her do-good heroism. I don't suppose she strategized at all with documentary-makers about what would be the best way to approach the subject matter, so as to generate maximum sales of the film? Yes, apparently $100,000 was raised for the kids ... Read More
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This is a very good documentary about children with no hope. While I really liked the film, it was also very sad and made you feel dirty watching it. These kids live in filth and I couldn't help feeling like I needed a shower. I kept saying to my girlfriend that I am so grateful I don't live in one of those parts of the world. The people are gross, a lot of the kids annoyed me, the lady who made the film was annoying too. I felt like she was exploiting these kids for much of the film, but I was happy ... Read More
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I watch a lot of documentaries and this is one of the best in my opinion--
well-crafted and moving.
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