Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Document number
- 1570
- Date
- 2004
- Title
- Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Author/publisher
- Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- India, Prostitution, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Sexual exploitation, Documentary,
- Summary
- Admist the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another side of the nation that is little known. Within the Red Light District of Calcutta this documentary explores the hopeless lives of the sons and daughters of prostitutes through photography and film. The filmmaker, Zana Briski, is a New York based photographer who teaches a photography class to the children and attempts to enroll them in boarding schools in order to give them the opportunity for a better future. Of the children, only one of which, Avijit, is able to separate himself from the rest through actual talent with the rest being young and imaginative kids, the same that one would find anywhere else in the world. By the end of the film most of the children are enrolled and attending classes, however not all take the opportunity and choose to return to the brothels. Website: http://kids-with-cameras.org/bornintobrothels/dvd.php
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