Screening

This screening includes The World Before Her

Date and time:: Thurs, Feb 27, 2014, From 7–8:30 pm
Runtime:: 1 hr 30 min
Cost:: Free, but ticketed

Director Nisha Pahuja is scheduled to be present.

Nisha Pahuja is a freelance filmmaker, writer, producer, and researcher who was born in India, but grew up in Toronto. Her third film, The World Before Her won the World Documentary Competition Award at Tribeca Film Festival, where it premiered. Though she grew up in Toronto, this is her second film focusing on India. She makes films that deal with social and political issues and are driven by character and narrative.

Events are cosponsored by the Dhar India Studies Program.

Series: Additional Films and Guests

Year Released:: 2012
Format:: HD
Genres:: Documentary
Metadata:: Directed by Nisha Pahuja

The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias. In one, Ruhi Singh is a small-town girl competing in Bombay to win the Miss India pageant—a ticket to stardom in a country wild about beauty contests. In the other India, Prachi Trivedi is the young, militant leader of a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls, where she preaches violent resistance to Western culture, Christianity, and Islam. Moving between these divergent realities, the film creates a lively, provocative portrait of the world’s largest democracy at a critical transitional moment—and of two women who hope to shape its future.