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Born Into Brothels
Aug. 26th, 2005 01:31 pmFinally saw Born into Brothels screened at our local art museum, so happy to see the theatre filled (often for good films there are so few attendees.
It was as brilliant and moving as I hoped...PLEASE go see this movie if it's playing near you or rent it here from Netflix.
May it continue to spread seeds of awareness and compassion and empathy far and wide.
"Born into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, is the winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. 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 the children a camera and teaches them to look at the world with new eyes."
See the website Kids-With-Cameras.org
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eyeclectic, this film must be SO inspiring and reinforcing for you! Did you see it??
Afterwards unfortunately I became very depressed...because we hung out with a few other people after the film and I wanted so much to talk about the film and express how strongly I believe in this type of work and what a big part of my life microphilanthropy is and the 10% concept...and I just... couldn't. All stuck in my throat and heart.Didn't know how to talk about it. And the conversations all felt so Off, awkward and off-topic and i felt this growing sadness that the movie seemed to have already faded from their minds...or never sunk in in the first place...or just that we could not really dialogue about it. And again that feeling of such distance....of having such superficial interactions with the people/friends around me and layers and layers untouched.
I guess this is another reason I am so addicted to LJ...the feeling of being a bit more under the skin of everyone...and having an open arena to comfortably speak from that place in me as well...
It was as brilliant and moving as I hoped...PLEASE go see this movie if it's playing near you or rent it here from Netflix.
May it continue to spread seeds of awareness and compassion and empathy far and wide.
"Born into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, is the winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. 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 the children a camera and teaches them to look at the world with new eyes."
See the website Kids-With-Cameras.org
eyeclectic, this film must be SO inspiring and reinforcing for you! Did you see it??Afterwards unfortunately I became very depressed...because we hung out with a few other people after the film and I wanted so much to talk about the film and express how strongly I believe in this type of work and what a big part of my life microphilanthropy is and the 10% concept...and I just... couldn't. All stuck in my throat and heart.Didn't know how to talk about it. And the conversations all felt so Off, awkward and off-topic and i felt this growing sadness that the movie seemed to have already faded from their minds...or never sunk in in the first place...or just that we could not really dialogue about it. And again that feeling of such distance....of having such superficial interactions with the people/friends around me and layers and layers untouched.
I guess this is another reason I am so addicted to LJ...the feeling of being a bit more under the skin of everyone...and having an open arena to comfortably speak from that place in me as well...
