Looking for something to do Friday night? Come and see the Academy Award-Winning film Born into Brothels. Join in the post-film discussion, refreshments and community.
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In the Academy Award winning film Born into Brothels, directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children of prostitutes that they come to know in Calcutta’s red light district. Briski, a professional photographer, 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.
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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. The children’s 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.
