Born Into Brothels

Pros: inspiring, beautiful cinematography, riveting story
Cons: possible exploitation of the children for the film, some parts are depressing

As much as we like to complain about the globalization of the economy, it’s nowhere near to being equal across the board. Like many people, I hate calling a customer service line and getting a foreign voice. The call centers are usually located in ...

Pros: Cinematography; The kids; The humanitarian effort
Cons: Rough cut and shaky camera work at times

Life in India is tough for much of its population. A large number of them live in crowded cities and struggle each day to sustain a meager living. But life is even more tragic in the nation of India for certain groups and one of these groups is the ...

Pros: The children, their photographs, Briski's efforts, the music.
Cons: Nary a one.

Born Into Brothels, the Academy Award winning documentary from first time directors Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, focuses on the harrowing plight of children of prostitutes growing up in the red light district of Calcutta. Many children populate ...

Pros: outstanding piece, great direction
Cons: none

Written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, Born Into Brothels is a documentary of 1-˝ hours detailing the lives of several children born into the families that inhabit the brothels of Calcutta. Briski finds and selects several ...

Pros: Cinematography, music, message
Cons: Probably should have mentioned the dropouts failures) in the original group a little more

This is one film that will teach you to love documentaries. It will break your heart in the first moments and give you a new one by the end of the flick. It is sort of a Christian Barnard sort of film. The premise of it, I thought, was unappealing. ...

Pros: Interesting and vivid documentary. The kids are compelling.
Cons: Can or should you offer others a new world? Does it work?

“Born into Brothels” is an interesting documentary about the children of prostitutes in the Calcutta red light district. The original plan had been to cover the story of the women prostituting, but that proved to be a difficult task. The children were ...

Pros: The children, their photos and their teacher
Cons: None

I had had this movie in my NetFlix queue for a while. I finally bumped it up to the top for reasons that I won’t go into here. The movie is about a woman teaching eight children about photography. Zana Briski had originally set out to do a ...

Pros: Well Rounded Documentary, Beautifully Shot, Great Still Photos, Captivating Story
Cons: Sensitive Subject Matter, Too Real, Graphic Language

Life sometimes deals us a hand that we cannot control but to accept, no matter how grim the life is to become, case in point children of prostitutes in the Red Light District of Calcutta, India, as documented in the film, have nearly no choice but to ...

Pros: unique perspective rarely seen; a dark subject, yet not without its message of hope
Cons: perhaps at times a choppy montage

It is said that suffering develops character. Surely, when photographer Zana Briski went on a photography pilgrimage to the red light district in Sonagchi, Calcutta, in India, she discovered more character, and in smaller shape and size, then she might ...