It is the story of a British photographer who suceeded in brining out the creativity of a few poor sons and daughters of prostitutes from the notorious red light district of Calcutta.

In 1998 a British photograper Zana Briski went to Calcutta's red light district to take pictures of the prostitues and their life.She found out that the little girls were forced to join "the line" shortly after puberty.Prostitutes children are denied education because of their mother's profession.

Briski met many children of the red light district and forged a bond with a few of them like Shanti,Manik,Kochi,Puja,Suchitra and Avijiti. They called her Auntie Zana.She gave them cameras and taught them how to shoot and edit the small world that they are living-their filthy houses, each other,their mothers work and toil.

 In 2000, Briski asked New York documentry editor Ross Kauffman to make movie about these poor kids.Their work resulted in a documentry of eight kids that they tried to help.Briski tried to put these kids in boarding schools and fought with the Indian bureaucracies at different stages.More over Briski faced a lot of resistance from the girls' mothers who will be loosing another source of income.Some of the children are still attemding the boarding schools Briski found for them while others went back to the pathos of the red light district.Some of the photographes taken by these kids are astonishingly beautiful.Briski came up with an excellent plan to use the photographes taken by these children to fund their education.

The documentry film created by Briski and Kauffman "Born into Brothels" is premiered at Human Rights Watch Film Festival earlier and now it will be shown worldwide.They have exihibited the dismal existence of these haples kids very well.Definetely they are trying to transform the lives of many prostitues as well as their kids alike.

Briski's love and compassion caught the attention of many people in different arena all around the world.She did prove that each and every kid will have some kind of creativity in them but they have no chance to develope it.The film itself protray the boundless creativity of the children in dire circumstances.The dedication and caring of Briski and Kauffman to support and change the destines of these unfortunate children are remarkable.They are the people who are not driven by greed and avarice but they are caring and giving.

You will be immensely touched by this film.Briski had formed a foundation called "Kids With Cameras" to help these poor children.Their website is http://kids-with-cameras.org/home/ . You can also a make a difference in the lives of these children by helping Briski's cause. 

We rate this movie Very Good.