[Leica] Documentary - Born into Brothels

[spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

The Academy Award winning documentary "Born into Brothels" will be  
shown on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Newsworld Channel at  
10PM tonight (Sunday).

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/bornintobrothels/index.html

 From the description -

"The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district are not  
the prostitutes, but their children who have little hope of escaping  
their mother?s fate. In the Academy Award winning film Born into  
Brothels viewers witness how these children?s lives are transformed  
when they begin to take photographs of their life in the stark and  
impoverished brothels. Photography becomes both an emotional outlet  
and for some, an escape. "

Might not be directly Leica-related but it does speak to the power of  
photography in what is in many ways a hopeless situation. Actually  
looking closer at the picture of the filmmaker Zana Briski, she might  
be using a Leica. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/pics/brothels3.jpg :-)

Regards,
Spencer