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Pires, R

Sept. 25, 2012

The Human Rights Film Center decided to use unexperienced film makers instead of a professional camera crew. Purna Singh Baraily, the Chairperson of the HRFC, was at Valencia College on Sept. 20, 2012 to explain the HRFC’s reasoning.      

           

“Give people cameras and let them show their real lives” Baraily said. He was explaining the goal of the HRFC, which is to train people from certain areas of the world in the art of film. Therefore those people can make documentaries on the problems that the certain place is dealt with.

Baraily went on to explain that they choose to use regular people instead of a professional film crew, because it allows for a more honest product. He says that people are a lot more inclined to open up about certain situations if it is to someone they are familiar with.

 “Khaati Suun,” is a documentary about two women in their 20s starting school for the first time. The movie was made by Lalu Bohara and Meena Pariyar, who were trained by the HRFC to make the film. The characters in the film are very open about their lives, and seem comfortable speaking in the interview portions.

Therefore Baraily believes that these sorts of results were achieved because the women who made the film are from the same community as the characters in it. When Joao Pacheco, a student at Valencia College was asked if he thought that the way the HRFC was making their films was effective, he said “I definitely think so,” and “I also find it cool, because it keeps the documentary raw and real.”

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The ultimate goal of the HRFC was to shed light on the issues going on in Nepal. They hoped to work on it at a local level, but seem to have accomplished more than that. Elizabeth Solis, the Peace Studies professor at Valencia College, said that “the documentary brings awareness to the struggles that women in Nepal must deal with.” With this statement being made here in America, it proves that the HRFC is well on there way to providing full awareness about problems that are normally shoved aside by the world. Although they have a long way too go they continue to stick to there risky film making techniques and ambitious goals to create life changing films.

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