Welcome to the Hot Docs screening schedule, where you can browse all of the films in this year’s festival.
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Dir(s): Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi
Program: World Showcase
Run Time: 75 | Italy | Language: (Subtitled in English) Bengali English Hindi Italian Telugu
View the trailer for Hair India on the Hot Docs YouTube channel
India has always been praised for her idyllic standard of beauty, from women's saris to her skin and hair. But now, even she has undergone a Western makeover. Hair India takes outsourcing to a new level in this fascinating exposé of a lucrative Indian export: hair. It begins in West Bengal where a young girl donates her hair to the temple. The hair is then sorted by an assembly line of women (with the sound of their bangles keeping rhythm), and sold to Great Lengths, an Italian company that sells the plaits as hair extensions to wealthy women around the world. Along the way, we meet the players, from the hair donors and dealers to Sangreeta, who represents the modern Indian working woman and the Westernization of India's beauty standards. Hair India effortlessly illustrates how globalization, marketing of vanity, and traditional rituals can all contribute to create a lucrative enterprise. Karina Rotenstein.
Co-presented with FILMI South Asian Film Festival.
Official website: http://www.bbfilm.tv
Director(s) : Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi
Producer(s) : Raffaele Brunetti
Executive Producer(s) : Carmen Gonzales
Cinematographer(s) : Marco Leopardi, Marco Pasquini, Gianni Maitan
Editor(s) : Ilaria de Laurentiis
Composers(s) : Alfonso D'Amora
Hair India deals with the following subjects: Big Business, Labour & Working People, South & Southeast Asian Cultures & Issues, Women’s Issues
Hair India will be presented at the following times and locations.
| Time | Films | Venue | Tickets | Calendar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 pm Sun, May 3 |
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| 7:00 pm Tue, May 5 |
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The following titles are in the World Showcase category along with Hair India.
People who added Hair India to their My Hot Docs calendar also added the following films.
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