Here is a little something I wrote for the zine, Courageous Creativity, from Shirin Subhani and Shahana Dattagupta the founders of Flying Chickadee, a really sweet publishing outfit out of Seattle. They heard about Opportunity Costs through a common friend. Shirin wrote to me and asked if I would like to write something for their January issue [...]
Sproutwas way back in November, but I am still high from it. I have been so busy working on the film itself, I have not had time to reflect on the experience of Sprout. However, it was great and deserves a debrief. I have a moment here and am taking it. Sprout is this [...]
On Saturday night I have 8 minutes to present, Opportunity Costs: The Brief Life of Shanta D. for the possibility of being granted $1000 for the film. It is this super cool thing called Sprout. It was started by two awesome arts & leadership women, Kristen Hoskins and Sarah Steininger as part of their grad [...]
We have four beautiful and beautifully framed photos that we took in Nepal during our first trip there in 2008. They are of Shanta, here sister-in-law and niece, women working in a rice field and a Little Sister Fund recipient in her classroom. We have been taking them with us any time we are out [...]
What a high! There is nothing like showing your labor of love to people who are into it. This festival is a labor or love for its creator, Mrinalini Venkatachalam or Minnie as she is called. She is the Programme Associate – Public Awareness and Youth Initiatives at UNIFEM and put on this film festival because she [...]
