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2010

Beauty and Brains

Saturday

May 15, 2010

@

3:30 pm

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2010

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Director
Catherine Donaldson
Year
2010
Run Time
85
min
Country
Nepal
Language
Nepalese
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
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.
This film is presented in Nepalese with English subtitles.
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