Born into Brothels: Calcutta s Red Light Kids ( 2004)
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Born into Brothels: Calcutta s Red Light Kids is a 2004 Indian-American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata s red light district. The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2004.
Plot
Zana Briski, a documentary photographer, went to Kolkata to photograph prostitutes.
While there, she befriended their children and offered to teach the children photography
to reciprocate being allowed to photograph their mothers.
The children were given cameras so they could learn photography and possibly improve their lives.
Their photographs depicted a life in the red light district through the eyes of children
typically overlooked and sworn off to do chores around the house
until they were able to contribute more substantially to the family welfare.
Much of their work was used in the film, and the filmmakers recorded the classes
as well as daily life in the red light district.
The children s work was exhibited, and one boy was even sent to a photography conference in Amsterdam.
Briski also recorded her efforts to place the children in boarding schools
although many of the children did not end up staying very long in the schools they were placed in.
Others, such as Avijit and Kochi not only went on to continue their education, but were graded well.
Aftermath
There is debate about the extent to
which the documentary has improved the lives of the children featured in it.
The film-makers claim that the lives of children appearing in Born into Brothels
have been transformed by money earned through the sale of photos and a book on them.
Ross Kauffman, co-director of the documentary, says
that the amount earned is $100,000 (about Rs.4.5 million),
which will pay for their tuition and for a school in India for children of prostitutes.
Briski has started a non-profit organization to continue this kind of work in other countries,
named Kids with Cameras.
A film is being made on the life story of a high-profile trio of call girl sisters,
Shaveta, Khushboo and Himani, born in one of the brothels of Haryana.
In November 2006, Kids with Cameras provided an update on many of the children s conditions,
asserting that they had entered high schools or universities in India
and the United States or found employment outside of prostitution.
Kids with Cameras continues to work toward improving the lives of children
from the Calcutta red light district with the plan to build a Hope House.
2010 and 2009 were also published.
In 2004, REACT to FILM organized a screening for Born into Brothels at the SoHo House in Manhattan, NY.
In 2010, the film’s director, Zana Briski, joined the advisory board of REACT to FILM.
Criticisms
The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a prostitutes organization active in Sonagachi,
has criticized the film for presenting the children s parents as abusive
and for ignoring the prostitutes efforts to provide education programs
and career building activities for their children.
In addition, the film has been criticized in India for perceived racist stereotyping,
and has also been viewed as exploiting the children for the purposes of Indophobic propaganda in the West.
A review in Frontline, India s national magazine, summarized this criticism, remarking:
IF Born Into Brothels were remade
as an adventure-thriller in the tradition of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
its posters might read: "New York film-maker Zana Briski sallies forth among the natives to save souls."
Some critics joined the Sonagachi prostitute-advocacy groups
in condemning the film for exploitation of the plight of the prostitutes for profit.
Other criticisms were raised about "ethical and stylistic" problems, by Partha Banerjee,
interpreter between the filmmakers and the children.
Awards
2004 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Briski, Kauffman
2004 Bermuda International Film Festival Audience Choice Award - Briski, Kauffman; Documentary Prize - Briski, Kauffman
2004 Cleveland International Film Festival Best Film - Briski, Kauffman
2004 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Audience Award - Briski, Kauffman (tied with Word Wars)
2004 International Documentary Association Award for Feature Documentaries - Briski, Kauffman, Geralyn Dreyfous-White, Pamela Boll (tied with Fahrenheit 9/11)
2004 National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary Feature - Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
2004 Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Award for Best Documentary - Briski, Kauffman
2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Documentary - Kauffman
Nominations
2005 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary - Briski, Kauffman
2005 Golden Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture, Documentary
2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film - Kauffman, Briski
2004 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Documentary - Kauffman, Briski
2013 Calcutta Film Festival (funded by Walt Disney Pictures), Documentary - Spielberg, Steven. Lucas, George. Abrams, J. J.
這篇文章令人感到生命中不可承受之重！
回想──
昨晚參加同學婚宴，到場才知道不收禮金！
地點選在老字號五星級飯店最大廳，席開 55 桌(12人/桌)，
席間各種酒類供應不斷，12道佳餚十分美味卻不浮誇，
背景音樂搭配得宜，穿插新郎的深情宣言，為夫守則……
沒有小孩穿梭嬉戲或大人失態喧鬧。
中式喜酒能夠吃得這麼舒適，的確罕見。
不論是雙方大學及研究所的同學，或長輩的親友桌，
都是歡欣喜悅又不致於張牙舞爪，好難得的優質畫面。
我的同學以前是不醉不散的個性，婚禮辦成這樣，家長的用心太感人了。
雖然家長給了金湯匙，自己也是爭氣的料：
當時以研究室為家，半夜苦讀，累了就裹棉被打盹，
翌日上課趕報告交作業，下課趕補習，再接著通宵K書，
也曾經因此而換氣過度送急診……
在最短的時間內修完大學及研究所的學分(我們都是大學非本科系)，
同時取得國考相關證照，還提交論文，
是罕見的拼命少東。
踏出校門，即有上手的工作，成家立業無縫接軌，相信在不惑之前就能克紹箕裘。
再看《妓院出生》中的孩子，該說天地不仁嗎？
生命從來不是等值的，人命從來不是無價的。
不過，問題的爭點不在賣淫，是制度殺人，是貧窮吃人，是無知坑人。
所以對於各方對於此片的批判，只能說是轉移焦點。
是否以西方價值觀來醜化一些古老文明的生活方式(非洲、亞洲皆然)，
是另外一個普遍觸及的議題。
我們不必以白人印象為尚，但也不能否認一些當前的普世價值：
給人有選擇的餘地(agent=能動性)，給人有流動的機會，給人基本的尊重與保障。
這些父母有沒有abuse他們的子女，賣淫者有沒有受到性剝削，
整個社會制度是否充滿歧視與不義，
身在其中的人不應以民粹情緒來扭曲訴求焦點，該做的事不是先矢口否認，
可以提出反證來駁斥以篇概全的刻板印象，
更該捲起袖管一起努力造就更多自主的靈魂，這才是民族自尊的覺醒。 |
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