A $5,000 grant was awarded to an Indian filmmaker, Sourabh Kanti Dutta, for his project Fatima

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Fatima has become an activist to challenge the sex trade in her community. Married off to a pimp as a child bride herself, and expected to become a prostitute by her in-laws, she has a genuine knowledge of and access to women in her community.

She tries desperately hard to prevent her own six children going into the sex trade. She divorces her husband, and as we follow her personal ups and downs; falling in love again, trying to start a new family, we find out more about why she chose to fight against the abuse and exploitation that has become systemic in her community.

With our unique access to Fatima, we highlight and expose in a vernacular way, the realities of sex-trade in India.