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The festival is hosted by Women in Film and TV Vancouver, a non-profit that this year celebrates 30 years of promoting women working in different screen-based media.The festival opens with the American resistance documentary Warrior Women about the work of Lakota activists Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter Marcy Gilbert.
“This is just serendipitous we open the film festival with Warrior Women and we are closing the festival with a woman warrior,” said VIWFF executive director Carolyn Combs. Q: You have brought a lot of Indian arts to the Western World how good does it feel to bring a classical Indian badass woman like this to the screen and subsequently the world?
B: Both The East India Company and today’s corporations with their parallels of greed, power, money and dictatorial attitudes resonated with me. Corporations today don’t serve their shareholders and most of the time; take huge monetary benefits at the expense of the common man very much like the East India Company and their brazen attitudes.A: Honoured. I believe in the power of women to change the world, when they unite and celebrate each other’s work and ideas.
Q: You are a big proponent of mentoring. Do you see your work as a form of that and whom did you look to when you were a young artist?