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THE THIRD BREAST

A feature length documentary on taboo, sexuality and sexual violence in India. A dark comedy! The shocking revelations of the hypocrisy in contemporary India !

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THE THIRD BREAST

THE THIRD BREAST

THE THIRD BREAST

THE THIRD BREAST

THE THIRD BREAST

A feature length documentary on taboo, sexuality and sexual violence in India. A dark comedy! The shocking revelations of the hypocrisy in contemporary India !

A feature length documentary on taboo, sexuality and sexual violence in India. A dark comedy! The shocking revelations of the hypocrisy in contemporary India !

A feature length documentary on taboo, sexuality and sexual violence in India. A dark comedy! The shocking revelations of the hypocrisy in contemporary India !

A feature length documentary on taboo, sexuality and sexual violence in India. A dark comedy! The shocking revelations of the hypocrisy in contemporary India !

Anamika Bandopadhyay
Anamika Bandopadhyay
Anamika Bandopadhyay
Anamika Bandopadhyay
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SALT LAKE CITY, United States
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ABOUT THE FILM : THE THIRD BREAST 

On December 16, India became the headline on all the recognized International newspapers and bulletins, for her daughter Jyoti Singh. Jyoti (age 23) was brutally beaten and gang-raped and finally died. The media attention and the public discourse reached a crescendo around this horrific event. Well, it was not a one-off case of sexual violence, but it did circulate the term ‘rape-culture’ in the public discourse.

Everyone was talking about Rape and sexual misbehaviors, even my 11 years old son. Only few days back he attended the maturation curriculum here in the US, the curriculum which is almost nonexistent in India. The teachers asked me whether we have such awareness programs in Indian schools too. I said  “No" and fumbled.

Here begins my journey/story.

I fumbled and came to a halt, because the whole history of a hypocritical society unfolded in front of my eyes. For nearly the last 3,000 years, India had been depicting and revealing the secrets of the human body and eroticism, either in the form of love or worship. The temples are the places where extraordinary artistic sculptures of sex and foreplay are on an open display. In fact,even today, every Hindu worships the phallus openly. But no one is ready to talk about this. 

How frequent is rape in India? – A question being asked to Prof. Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate in Economics, Prof. at Harvard). “he says: High frequency of rape may not be the real issue in India, but all the evidence suggests that India has a huge problem in seriously monitoring rape and taking steps to reduce it.” The primary objective of this documentary, however, is not to delve into such statistical analysis, rather probe into the intersection of value and belief system of India that governs the mind with respect to respectable, or otherwise, acts of sex. Also, the question of how a rape victim is being treated, in terms of legal procedures as well as societal rehabilitation- constitute another focus area of our documentation.

How much the Sanskritic notion of purity and pollution affects our attitude towards sex?

What is construction of female body, what is the notion of wealth around the body?

In what sense does patriarchy ‘own’ a female body and exercise a power to subsume female sexuality?. 

Why is it so that the country which had a history of liberal views towards sexuality, does not allow sex-education in its school curriculum at present days? Why is it so that in a country where a significant section of the people worships phallus-vagina-conjugation, barley shows the minimum respect to female body, let alone to the female genitalia.

Let’s talk about all these in The Third-Breast. Let ‘s question the current sexual crisis and the so-called neuroses behind the much talked about Rape Culture and sexual violence in India, and investigate the psyche of the collective Indian mind that even is not ready to impart sex-education.



                     


                        DIRECTOR'S NOTE

I have always made films on social and human rights issues. I have worked on land Grab, tribal movements in India both as an activist and a filmmaker.Last year my son was attending maturation program ( SEXUALITY EDUCATION) I the US and the teacher asked me : do you have this kind of program in your schools back in India ? I said : NO and  as I said  the whole film started forming into my head.

I have been making this film for last one year.I did survey and organized focus study group discussion across universities like Oxford( UK ) , University 0f Utah , JNU ( Delhi ), Benaras Hindu University. I presented my research on The Third Breast in Oxford Women Leadership Symposium and was overwhelmed by the support and positive reactions !

  • Talking about sex and sexuality education  is highly controversial in India. I lost many potential contributors and producers in the middle of the shoot. My friends and well wishers came up. Some contributed directly with cash , check and some bought the air tickets , booked our hotels , paid for the essential miscellaneous and so on.
  •  Now I am appealing to you to help us to complete this film. Working / Making films  on essential social issues are our responsibilities on this Earth. If we don't take initiative, who else will do? If not today, then when ?

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                                WHO WE ARE

    

About the Director :

ANAMIKA BANDOPADHYAY is a documentary filmmaker and social activist, currently based in the US. She had directed documentaries on railway hawkers, Bengali folk theater, Nandigram (a village in West Bengal, India) violence and two short fictions, and worked as a producer and hosted talk shows & news bulletins while working in Kolkata TV, Calcutta, India. She had also produced and directed  feature documentary 1700 KELVIN on the plights of the people of Jangalmahal (a large forest area in West Bengal, India) in 2011 and on land grab movement of Nandigram  RED in 2008.

She worked as a visiting lecturer of film theory at Calcutta University. She had two books of collection of poems to her credit, and had written books on Spanish film directors and Argentine films and Third cinema movement. She has been associated with many literary magazines and journals as a poet. 

Anamika completed Masters in Film Studies from Jadavpur Universities, Calcutta and Masters in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, India. Currently, she is pursuing MFA in Film Making in the department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.


Director of Photography :

SUNNY JOSEPH is one of the most renowned Indian Cinematographers, most known for his work in Shaji N. Karun classic PIRAVI ( Caméra d'O  1989 Cannes Film Festival), for which he won the 1988 Kerala State Film Award for Best Photography. He photographed more than 30 feature films and many short films. Working all over India he has worked in  seven languages-Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Manipuri, Hindi/Panjabi and English with eminent  directors like G.Aravindan, Shaji N Karun, Aribam Shyam Sharma, Malay Bhattacharya, K.G. George, Pamela Rooks and Chandrashekar. Sunny Joseph also works as a Director. He has more than six short  films and two television serials to his credit. He has Post Graduate Diploma in Cinematography from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. He is also the General Secretary of Indian Society of Cinematographers, (ISC).


Editing : 

JAHANARA SALEH  

Jahanara Saleh was born and raised in Tehran, Iran and came to the United states to peruse a film Career, she got her MFA from the University of Utah. Jahanara is an award winning Directer/Producer/ editor with a Unique approach to narrative film-making. her work has been showcased in several festivals around the globe and her films are all a product of her curiosity and life experiences.


C0-Research :

ABHIJIT KUNDU  

Abhijit Kundu has done his Economics Honors from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He went on to pursue Sociology Masters from JNU, New Delhi,  secured his Doctoral degree from JNU in 2002. His area of study is media, gender studies and cultural politics. Abhijit has written for National and International Journals, lectured in a number of Universities/ Institutes. He writes often for popular Magazines, Dailies and web portals. He is an Associate Professor and teaches Sociology at the prestigious Delhi University.

                                                                 OUR LOCATIONS

       So far we have traveled to these places  to shoot our film:

Goa / Calcutta / Delhi / Vizag / Haridwar / Shantiniketan /                                    Hrishikesh/ London / Bombay

Visit our  website to see more

http://www.thethirdbreast.org/




What We Need & What You Get

We need at least  $20,000 USD  for the post-production of our project " The Third Breast ". This will pay for  the  editing house , editor's fees, color correction, sound  house , sound mixing , archival footage , travel, PR and patchwork interviews.


We need to go back to India to shoot  some important interviews and  record foley sound and music score. We will edit the film in the USA and we need to pay for the editing house , sound house , sound mixing, color correction and subtitles.

I have been making this film for last one year.

So far we have raised $ 20,000. That helped us to do the research and the principal shooting in a shoestring budget. Our cinematographer principal crew members and volunteer  actors have made it possible. No one has taken the remuneration.We shot in 8 locations in India.

This is the most important and crucial fund we need to raise .This will not complete the film  ( we will again raise money for DVD printing , festival submission , PR , marketing and Global promotion ) but without this amount we cannot move forward

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WHY THIS FILM SHOULD BE MADE

Talking about sex is a highly controversial issue in India. Lack of healthy discussion about sex education , lack of awareness among the young Indian boys and girls create social taboos. It leads towards a neuroses.Crimes like sexual violence against women go unreported. The social taboos tag stigma on anything related to sexual violence and healthy talking. 

"High frequency of rape may not be the real issue in India, but all the evidence suggests that India has a huge problem in seriously monitoring rape and taking steps to reduce it" says Amartya Sen.

Lack of sex education and resistance on healthy discussion about sex and sexuality is one of them. 

We need to create awareness among the young generation across the country and worldwide! We believe talking is the first step of cure. We need to break the silence. Today it is happening in India , tomorrow we'll be able to erase it from the entire world !! Everyday we should try to create a much better environment for our living regardless of the fact in which part of the world  it is happening !! The more we talk , the more we spread the awareness !! 

Let's upgrade our living  !!

Let's create the awareness !!!! Every dime counts !!

After completion of the film we will start creating  screening events  and discussion and workshops in collaboration with educational institutes and social organization. Join the revolution. If we do not talk about our social issues , work to develop our communities, who else will do.


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Hey folks !! Thanks for your time and interest. Will you help to get the word out and make some buzz about this campaign ? Yes you can !!!

Please post it on your Facebook , Twitter and on other social media pages !!

The more we talk, the more we spread the awareness !!

Thanks for your time and interest !! Let's make this film. Spread the awareness !! 

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