The stunning documentary Born Into Brothels brought me to tears some years back; the story was both heartbreaking and soul igniting in its individual spotlights on the children of prostitutes in Calcutta's Red Light district. Through this work, a few of the children were given a chance; they were provided with an avenue of escape, a narrow crack of light in a perpetually dark existence. This crack continues to widen with the help of Kids with Cameras and Hope House, which will provide a free education to other children stuck in the cycle of poverty and abandonment in Calcutta, following in the footsteps of the great saint, Mother Theresa. In this unconventional manner, Born into Brothels, the film, became a social justice campaign in itself; this is an extraordinary level of significance for a film. A truly grand metamorphosis.
http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/bornintobrothels/
