The World Before Her returns to The Bloor, and, as one of TIFF’s Top 10, will screen at the tiff Bell Lightbox
The World Before Her, a film by Nisha Pahuja
Writer|Director: Nisha Pahuja
Producers: Ed Barreveld, Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe,
Editor: David Kazala
DOP: Mrinal Desai, Derek Rogers
Executive Producers: Ed Barreveld, Mike Chamberlain, Andy Cohen, Nisha Pahuja
Production Company: Storyline Entertainment
Awards
Best Documentary Feature, 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
Best Canadian Feature, 2012 Hot Docs Film Festival
Best Foreign Film, 2012 Traverse City Film Festival
Best Canadian Feature Documentary, 2012 Edmonton Int’l Film Festival
Special Jury Mention, 2012 Guanajuato Film Festival
Special Jury Mention, 2012 Warsaw Film Festival
Special Jury Mention, 2012 San Diego Asian Film Festival
Special Jury Mention, Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Awards, 2012 St. Louis Int’l FF
Canada’s Top Ten, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Festivals
Tribeca Film Festival
Hot Docs
Little Rock FF
Sydney Film Fest
Tribeca Firenze
Silverdocs
Moscow Intl FF
Dokufest Kosovo
Guanajuato FF
Gimli Film Festival
Traverse City Film Festival
Rhode Island Film Festival
Possible Worlds
EIDF
Third I Film Festival
Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival
Zurich Film Festival
Calgary Int’l Film Fest
Art Gallery of Hamilton World FF
Women In Film
International 1001 Documentary Film Festival
Palo Alto
Reykjavik IFF
Festival do Rio
Vancouver Int’l Film Fest
CNEX Documentary Festival
Aspen Film Festival
Northwest Film Center
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
Best of Hot Docs Winnipeg
Abu Dhabi IFF
Warsaw Film Festival
Zagreb Film Festival
St John’s Women’s Film Festival
Bergen International Film Fest
Bermuda Doc FF
Fort Lauderdale IFF
Citizen Jane Film Festival
Vermont IFF
Stockholm Film Festival
HumanDoc
San Francisco Doc Film Fest
Windsor Intl Film Festival
IDFA
San Diego Asian FF
Guangzhou Int’l Doc Film Fest
Brisbane FF
International Film Festival of India
Yogyakarta Documentary Festival
St Louis Film Festival
Anchorage IFF
Irvine Intl Film Festival
0110 International Digital Film Festival
Belgrade FF
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.