Should you watch Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids?
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Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Documentary · 2004
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
The sides of Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Children of sex workers in Calcutta
- Cameras handed to kids in a red light district
- A photographer trying to get them into school
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is good for you if…
- you want real children from Calcutta's red light district telling their own lives.
- you can be moved by kids who still laugh where they grow up.
- you like seeing a place through the photos the children took themselves.
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is bad for you if…
- you can't watch children growing up around prostitution and violence.
- you need a happy ending for every child.
About: childhood · poverty · art as a way out
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