Born into Brothels

The film depicts the transformation of several children growing up in the red-light district of Calcutta. The directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman documented brothels, and Briski, who is a professional photographer, taught children how to use cameras to document and share their world how they see it. It empowered those children to share their testimonies of creativity.
This work-of-art film displayed an empowering and liberating nature of art and went on to win an Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2005. Amazingly, this film was nearly lost in a fire and later digitally restored, received a Sundance Institute Documentary Fund Grant in 2004, and won the Documentary Audience Award.

CATEGORY From the Collection

RUN TIME 85 min

LANGUAGE English and Bengali

SUBTITLES Yes with English subtitles

Credits

Director	Zana Briski Ross Kauffman
Editors	Nancy Baker Ross Kauffman
Producers	Zana Briski Ross Kauffman
Cinematographers	Zana Briski Ross Kauffman
Executive Producer	Geralyn White Dreyfous

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