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Winners<\/span><\/span><\/h1>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>[\/vc_section][vc_section]

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Winner 2010<\/span><\/h2>

Soniya Kirpalani<\/span><\/h1>[vc_row_inner columns_gap=”60″ tablet_sm_columns_vertical_gap=”30″][vc_column_inner animation=”fade-in-left” animation_delay=”500″ animation_duration=”fast” tablet_sm_width=”1″][vc_column_text css=””]Soniya Kirpalani, a 47 year-old filmmaker from India, received a $5,000 award for her project <\/strong>“17 Not-Required Indians”<\/strong><\/p>\n

PROJECT DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

17 Indian workers in the United Arab Emirates have been sentenced to death for the killing of a Pakistani worker in March, 2009.<\/strong>\u00a0Investigation shows that they were tortured, forced to sign confessions, and that evidence in court was doctored. In June 2010, human rights lawyers revealed the Indian Embassy’s darkest secret: 1730 Indian citizens working in the UAE languish behind bars, approximately 300 on death row! The sentencing patterns are strange — 16 men on death row for murder of one; eight men for murder of another. But the Indian Embassy refuses to intervene. For the UAE, a nation where eighty percent of the residents are expatriates who live in harmony with the twenty percent who are citizens, these cases are a challenge to justice.<\/p>\n

Using two interwoven story lines, one shot in UAE, the other in India, the film follows the trial through contradictory views, revealing a poker game where the jackpot is truly ‘life or death’. Two brothers of the accused, trying to build proof of innocence, take us into labour camps, where we discover a dark side of UAE society. Visiting with the workers’ families in India we discover their struggle to get by.\u00a0Pyarelal<\/strong>, a 70 year-old English tutor, whose daily life is a battle against poverty and his loss of eyesight, now struggles to save his son.\u00a0Ranjeet Kaur<\/strong>, a 24 year-old uneducated housewife, stands up to politicians and begins a campaign to save the men. Finding strength in numbers, these people keep the case alive between trials.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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