free "Born Into Brothels" screening at VOICES tomorrow night @ 5:30pm
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This Friday at our VOICES headquarters (48 E. Pennington between Scott and Stone) we will be screening the documentary film "Born Into Brothels" (2004) at 5:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Young adults especially welcome. (we've got comfy couches and some snacks to munch on)
----->If I could only recommend one documentary to see this year, this one would be it<------
"Born Into Brothels" won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
A synopsis:
"The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district, are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life.
In Born into Brothels, directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district. Briski, a professional phot! ographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world. The photographs taken by the children are not merely examples of remarkable observation and talent; they reflect something much larger, morally encouraging, and even politically volatile: art as an immensely liberating and empowering force.
Devoid of sentimentality, Born into Brothels defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit."
This Friday at our VOICES headquarters (48 E. Pennington between Scott and Stone) we will be screening the documentary film "Born Into Brothels" (2004) at 5:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Young adults especially welcome. (we've got comfy couches and some snacks to munch on)
----->If I could only recommend one documentary to see this year, this one would be it<------
"Born Into Brothels" won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
A synopsis:
"The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district, are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life.
In Born into Brothels, directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district. Briski, a professional phot! ographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world. The photographs taken by the children are not merely examples of remarkable observation and talent; they reflect something much larger, morally encouraging, and even politically volatile: art as an immensely liberating and empowering force.
Devoid of sentimentality, Born into Brothels defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit."