returning to The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Nisha Pahuja’s THE WORLD BEFORE HER, screens Jan 4, 5, 6, + 7. Then, as one of TIFF’s Top 10 films of the year, screens at TBLB Jan 9 + 10

The World Before Her returns to The Bloor, and, as one of TIFF’s Top 10, will screen at the tiff Bell Lightbox

Tribeca Film Festival

The World Before Her: Synopsis

Twenty hand-picked contestants for the Miss India pageant enter an intense month-long beauty boot camp in Bombay. Winning the coveted title means instant stardom, a lucrative career and freedom from the constraints of a patriarchal society. In another corner of India, young girls undergo physical combat training and learn how to be obedient Hindu women at a camp run by the women’s branch of the militant fundamentalist movement. As massive change sweeps through India, control over women and their behaviour is at the epicentre of a violent clash between Western modernity and age-old patriarchal traditions. Director Nisha Pauja gained extraordinary access to women and their families living in two very different worlds—it’s the first time a camera has been allowed into the fundamentalist camp—to craft a brilliant film that captures the choices and contradictions facing young women in India today.  – Lynne Fernie, Hot Docs

About Storyline Entertainment: Producers

Storyline Entertainment is an award winning producer of non-fiction programming. Established in 2000, our mandate is to create productions with a distinct point of view, international appeal, and high production values. Storyline has an established reputation in the documentary world both in Canada and abroad. Our award-winning films, including Gemini wins for Shipbreakers and Tiger Spirit, and Best Documentary wins at Tribeca and Hot Docs for The World Before Her, have screened at many festivals including TIFF, Tribeca, Full Frame, True/False, IDFA and Hot Docs. They have been broadcast around the world on channels such as History TV, Discovery, CBC, National Geographic Channels, VRT, ZDF and ARTE.  Storyline Entertainment is operated by Ed Barreveld, a Canadian film maker with extensive experience producing for domestic and international markets.

About KINOSMITH: Distributor

The World Before Her is distributed in Canada by KinoSmith, an independent Canadian film distribution & marketing company founded in February 2007 by distribution veteran Robin Smith. With a mandate to bring critically-acclaimed Canadian and international films to audiences across the country, the company has distributed over 150 feature films in the last five years as well as provide marketing advice to completed films and productions in development.  Its current theatrical releases include GIRL MODEL, SOUND IT OUT, THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS, BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING, DARWIN, HERMAN’S HOUSE, BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!, CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT and UNFINISHED SPACES. Upcoming releases from KinoSmith include IN THEIR SKIN starring Selma Blair, the UK hit PING PONG, Yung Chang’s THE FRUIT HUNTERS, THE CARBON RUSH, CALIFORNIA SOLO starring Robert Carlyle and Michael Apted’s 56 UP.