In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being abducted into the woods, she was sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit’s relief is short-lived, as the villagers and their leaders launch a sustained campaign to force the family to drop the charges. Ranjit refuses. Instead, he challenges the status quo, determined to get justice for his daughter. On his quest, he works with a gender-justice NGO that sees in him an example for other men to follow. As the financial and emotional pressure of the case mounts, the villagers turn against Ranjit, and the boys’ families threaten murder.
Biography:
Nisha Pahuja is a freelance filmmaker, writer, producer, and researcher. Her third film, The World Before Her, won the World Documentary Competition Award at Tribeca Film Festival, where it premiered. The film depicts two young women who live miles apart but also worlds away—contestants in the Miss India pageant in Mumbai and the young women at a fundamentalist Hindu camp in nearby Aurangabad. The film is a meditation on the nature of women’s empowerment in an India still dominantly patriarchal.
Cornelia Principe has been working in documentary production, starting out as a broadcaster, and then moving to independent producer and director. Currently in production on the one-off Grinder, recent projects include the feature The Riseand Fall of the Grumpy Burgel and theGemini award-winning Diamond Road, which she Co-produced for TVOntario, History Television, Discovery Times and Arte/ZDF. Other credits include: Producer for PTV Productions on the series Resolutions for Discovery Health and The Life Channel; Directed and Co-produced Poverty, Chastity, Obedience; Co-produced Divorce What I See with Producer/ Director Sun-Kyung Yi and worked with Emmy award-winning Producer/ Director Shelley Saywell on several of her acclaimed documentaries including, A Child's Century of War which was short-listed for an Oscar and Legacy of Terror. From 1993-1997 Cornelia was the Associate Producer for TVO's social-political documentary strands The View From Here and Human Edge.
