Movie Redlight to Limelight

CAM-ON is an amateur film group made of sexual workers from Calcutta and their children. In the real setting of slums, they make short films based on their own, often painful, experiences and then post them online. At present, the group is working on their first feature film, which means a great deal for them, and they want to show it to the residents of the district. The camera captures the movie in the making. In the country where cinema is adored, it does not serve as an escape from reality. For the least privileged people, it also denotes creativity and agency, even a way of self-therapy.

directed by

Bipuljit Basu

A Sundance DFP and IDFA grantee, emerging from India’s documentary scene with a focus on marginalized South Asian narratives. A postgraduate in Social Development, he brings socially significant, culturally resonant stories to global audiences. From 2016–2019, he also worked as an overseas distributor for Bengali cinema, promoting socially conscious films to Indian diasporas worldwide. Bipuljit served as an Asian Jury member at the Science Film Festival, hosted by UNDP and the Goethe-Institut across 94 countries.

cinematography

Subhadeep Dey, Mrinmoy Mondal, Rupesh Chaturbedi

script

Bipuljit Basu

music

Pessi Levanto

editing

Anirban Maity

production

Nilotpal Majumdar, John Webster, Uldis Cekulis (Touch Narrative and Bindubot Communication)

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