Born into Brothels (2004)
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col 85m
Director: Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
An American philanthropist moves into a brothel in Calcutta in order to more closely observe the lives of a group of children destined for a miserable existence. She teaches them to photograph each other and gradually the idea takes shape that she will use these photographs to help find them a foothold in the world outside.
Review:
An inspiring film in which we peer into the lives of these children and discover them to be exactly like children everywhere. Some of the photographs and observations on photographs by the children are truly jaw-dropping, and the doggedly won success of the film maker is all the more poignant for its partial reversal at the hands of the very people she tries to help, revealed in titles at the end.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col 85m
Director: Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
An American philanthropist moves into a brothel in Calcutta in order to more closely observe the lives of a group of children destined for a miserable existence. She teaches them to photograph each other and gradually the idea takes shape that she will use these photographs to help find them a foothold in the world outside.
Review:
An inspiring film in which we peer into the lives of these children and discover them to be exactly like children everywhere. Some of the photographs and observations on photographs by the children are truly jaw-dropping, and the doggedly won success of the film maker is all the more poignant for its partial reversal at the hands of the very people she tries to help, revealed in titles at the end.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col 85m
Director: Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
An American philanthropist moves into a brothel in Calcutta in order to more closely observe the lives of a group of children destined for a miserable existence. She teaches them to photograph each other and gradually the idea takes shape that she will use these photographs to help find them a foothold in the world outside.
Review:
An inspiring film in which we peer into the lives of these children and discover them to be exactly like children everywhere. Some of the photographs and observations on photographs by the children are truly jaw-dropping, and the doggedly won success of the film maker is all the more poignant for its partial reversal at the hands of the very people she tries to help, revealed in titles at the end.