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BAS! Beyond the Red Light = BAS! Au-delà du Red Light

Item number (ISN):

432751

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2009

Item number (ISN):

432751

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

LES PRODUCTIONS DU RAPIDE-BLANC

Accession:

2011-0036

Media:

Video

Original title:

BAS! Beyond the Red Light

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2009

Production company:

Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc

Production credit:

director/producer/script, Wendy Champagne; producer, Denis McCready; executive producer, Sylvie Van Brabant; photography, Katerine Giguère; Guy Mossman; editing, Hubert Hayaud; music, Tarun Nayar

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Les Films du 3 Mars

Current distributor:

Les Films du 3 Mars

Description:

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BAS! means : enough!In BAS! BEYOND THE RED LIGHT, 13 young girls sold into Mumbai's network of gated brothels confront the inner and outer perils of life after rescue and reveal the very human story inside the big business of child trafficking.As wards of the court these young victims from remote corners of the Indian subcontinent are flung together and held virtual prisoners in a four-story suburban shelter in Mumbai until they come of age. Here they confront not only the pain of their recent past but also the stark choices in their futures: a fifty-fifty chance of being re-trafficked, marriage arranged through the Foundation with men twice their age or domestic servitude.The film explores this lesser known issue of rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims from these girls point of view. We move between gated brothels and guarded dormitories to a rehearsal studio where the girls practice bhangra dance moves learned from lazy afternoons in front of the communal TV and rehearsed in regular dance therapy classes, to tell their stories to the rest of the world.Through intimate, sustained access to these former victims and to Mumbai's underworld, BAS! BEYOND THE RED LIGHT interweaves dance rehearsals and candid observations from the girls themselves with testimony from a trafficker, a local Red Light politician and workers at the Rescue Foundation.Shot over the course of three and a half years, the film captures the beauty and truth of the girls and juxtaposes this against the volatile and visually provocative backdrop of the largest Red Light area on the planet. <1h 17mn>

Language:

English / Hindi / Nepali / with English subtitles

Notes:

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1. Produced with the Financial Participation of The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); SODEC; Quebec Tax Credit; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ); Canal Vie; National Film Board of Canada - Filmmaker Assistance Program (FAP Québec); Canada Federal Tax Credit; and PRIM.~2. Produced in cooperation with the Rescue Foundation (India).~3. Awards: NFB Colin Low Award for the most innovative Canadian documentary - DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2010; Best Documentary - L.A. Femme International Film Festival, USA, Oct. 2010.~4. Festivals: Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois, Montréal, Feb. 2011; Calgary International Film Festival, Sept. 2010; San Francisco Documentary Festival (sfindie), USA, Oct. 2010; L.A. Femme International Film Festival, USA, Oct. 2010; Byron Bay International Film Festival, Australia 2010; Montreal Human Rights Film Festival, 2010; DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, 2010; Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, 2009.~5. Synopsis taken from the production company's website < http://www.rapideblanc.ca/fr/films.html#bas > (page consulted on 2011-04-12).

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Vault ISN:

531756

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

7950AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

77:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

Open for consultation.

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Films du Rapide-Blanc Inc., 2009.

Reproduction access:

avec la permission écrite du propriétaire des droits d'auteur : aucune restriction de la part du donateur

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