Beauty and Brains, May 15, 2010 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2010

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

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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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