| ashu |
Posted
on 02-Oct-01 02:45 AM
Hi all,
What follows is from a film-maker friend in San Francisco.
On another note, HIMAL Association is launching a Festival of South Asian Documentaries in Kathmandu starting this Thursday.
Please visit: http://himalassociation.org/fsa
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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Dear Friends,
I'd like to announce upcoming screenings of my recently completed
film, "She Wants to Talk to You" (29 minutes, 16mm, Color, 2001). I hope you
will be able to attend and would love to hear your thoughts on it. FYI, I
will be attending the San Francisco screening so hope to see you there!
Take care,
Anita
SYNOPSIS
In October of 1999 in Kathmandu, Nepal, after befriending an Asian
American filmmaker, three 13-year old Nepali girls named Monika Rasali, Sushma
Sada and Vinita Shrestha bravely took the unique opportunity to share with
the filmmaker their ideas on being girls in Nepal, marriage, friendship,
love, loneliness, their dreams, and God. Inspired by these recordings,
three Nepali women living in the U.S. reflect on their own struggle, exile
and quest for liberation.
"She Wants to Talk to You" is a result of these conversations and
collaboration with these girls and women of diverse caste, the
filmmaker's own personal observations and reflections while living in Kathmandu,
and research with UNICEF experts and academics in the field of women's
roles in developing nations.
The film offers rare insight into the lives of girls in and women from a society steeped in patriarchy and tradition, and at the same time, suggest ways to improving the life quality and opportunities that they desire. While "She Wants to Talk to You" is a film that closely speaks to young girls and women (especially young girls of color, who rarely see positive images of themselves), it also provokes general audience introspection about the nature of happiness and oppression, and human relations and intimacy.
EXHIBITIONS
Friday, October 5th at 3:20PM
South Asian Documentary Film Festival
Russian Cultural Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal
977-1-542544
www.himalassociation.org/fsa
Friday, November 9th at 7PM
Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema
(co-presented by Global Exchange and sponsored by KQED)
Balboa Theatre
3630 Balboa, San Francisco, California
415-552-8760, ext. 364
www.filmarts.org
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