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BRAD BALFOUR PROVIDES THE 'BORN IN BROTHELS' BACKSTORY:"With the tsunami catastrophe fresh in mind, a documentary like "Born into Brothels" offers a ray of hope for a region often fraught with tragic stories. Though its directors, Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, backed into creating this documentary -- about children from Calcutta's brothels getting handed cameras and discovering a new life through making art -- the experience transformed their lives. Not only have they profoundly affected these kids' lives; Briski now has a foundation that expects to repeat this experience for other kids and Kauffman has made the feature that is now garnering much praise and talk of numerous award nominations, including a possible Oscar nod.
G21: What did you do to prepare for this and what happened as a consequence?
ZANA BRISKI: I did no preparation at all for this project -- none at all. This whole project was really me responding to what was happening around me. I'm a photographer. I was invited to Calcutta and had photographs in a show, so I was in India and somebody invited me to the red light district. That's how the project started. I spent a lot of time trying to get access to the brothels and photographed the women over a period of years, then met the children. I had not planned to teach them photography, didn't do research about it, but was just responding to the children wanting to learn. Then when I really started teaching the kids and saw their contact sheets, I wanted to document what was going on because it was an incredible thing that was happening. At that point I asked Ross to come and make a film with me. So, none of this was pre-meditated. ..." READ MORE
DR. BERNARD SABELLA ANALYSES THE PALESTINEAN ELECTION:
"One could put all the expectations and wishes in Abu Mazen [Mr. Mahmoud Abbas] after his election as President of the Palestinian Authority [into an array of categories] from reigning in the militant Palestinian groups to making peace with Israel. But one thing appears to be clear: his election signals the end of the Intifada as we have known it in the Palestinian Occupied Territories for over four years now.
Of those who have given their votes to Abu Mazen, many did so out of a conviction borne out by the tribulations and trials of daily life under Israeli military occupation. These Palestinians want change and change means finding channels to confront Israeli occupation other than [the] localized and sometimes haphazard use of arms by militant Palestinians.
Many of the Abu Mazen voters are not naÔve [enoughh] to think that miracles can happen in negotiations with an Israel so self-centered, overly preoccupied with its security and insistent on continued occupation of Palestinian lands. But they, nevertheless, think that Abu Mazen is a pragmatic politician without the overdose of charisma that often comes with slogans and mottos but lacks the practical methods of achieving specified goals. It is this pragmatism that has attracted many of the voters to Abu Mazen and, contrary to what some may argue, the elections were not prepackaged to bring in Mr. Abbas.
Abu Mazen and the Palestinians face difficult challenges; highest among them is the institutionalization of the state so as all Palestinians [will] be treated according to the Law and not according to factional or local preferences. ... " READ MORE
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