Past

Beauty and Brains

May 15, 2010 - 3:30pm, Fenway Health
A groundbreaking documentary on the trans community in Nepal. Beauty and Brain is a documentary film about talent contests featuring the third gender participants of Nepal in the autumn of 2008. These contests were held with a purpose of achieving equal rights and opportunities for this deprived community as well as prevention and control of HIV/AIDS which is considered to be a growing epidemic among South East Asian Society.


Co-presented by Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance
and by Massachusetts Asian and Pacific Islanders
Co-presented by: Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.
 

Films in this program

Beauty and Brains

Catherine Donaldson, 85min, Nepal, UK, 2010, English, Nepalese
“I am discarded from the village with contempt because I am a third gender. But am I not an individual in this society?” Lata Loha – Beauty and Brains participant. Would you enter a talent contest to stop rape and abuse being an everyday part of your existence?
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Appears in: Beauty and Brains