Saturday, March 27

Pittsburgh Filmmakers-Melwood Screening Room

8:00PM
BORN INTO BROTHELS

I PROMISE AFRICA

KARIM'S VIEW

BORN INTO BROTHELS

Director: Ross Kauffman & Zana Briski
2004. USA. 83min. English and Bengali with English subtitles.

The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district are not the prostitutes, but their children. Facing abject poverty, abuse and despair, these children have little possibility of escaping the fate of their mothers and building a different kind of life. BORN INTO BROTHELS, winner of the 2004 Sundance Documentary Audience Award, chronicles the lives of eight children born in Calcutta's redlight district and director Zana Briski's determination to teach them photography. What develops is much more than pictures. (Note: The pictures taken by the children in this film were featured in Amnesty International's 2003 wall calendar.)

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Ross Kauffman & Zana Briski (Directors)
Rosskauffman@earthlink.net
zanabriski@earthlink.net

Plays with I Promise Africa and Karim's View

I PROMISE AFRICA

Director: Jerry A. Henry
2003. USA. 3min.

Tragedy is something the entire world experiences. During the tragedies of 9/11, filmmaker Jerry Henry was in a rural village in Kenya. He illustrates his experiences in his documentary short I PROMISE AFRICA.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Jerry Henry (director)
djbisko@hotmail.com

KARIM'S VIEW

Director: Cherry Duyns
2002. The Netherlands. 25min. Arabic with English subtitles.

Karim, an 11-year-old Moroccan boy, is the sole provider for his family. Instead of going to school he works at the coppersmith's shop. Every morning he walks over an hour to get to the shop, and when he returns in the evening he is too tired to play with his friends. In KARIM'S VIEW, director Cherry Duyns shows us what child labor can do to a young boy.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Mathilde Veldt
info@lemmingfilm.com