Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Lakshmi and Me

Nishtha JAIN 2007 India Documentary b/w & color 59min English DCP
21-year-old housemaid Lakshmi works ten hours a day, seven days a week for various middle-class families in the city of Mumbai. One of her employers, independent documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain, begins to lm her. The boundary between subject and observer break down in unexpected ways.

Director

Nishtha JAIN

Nishtha JIAN graduated in 1998 from the Film film direction. An independent documentary filmmaker in Mumbai, her work includes Shadows Out of Time(2000), City of Photos(2005), Jain and Call it slut(2006) and 6 Yards to Democracy(2007).

Nishtha JAIN

Procucer/ Smriti NEVATIA

Director/ Nishtha JAIN

Cinematographer/ Deepti GUPTA, Rakesh HARIDAS

Editor/ Rikke Selin LORENTZEN

Raintree Films

smritinevatia@gmail.com