About
The Sakthi Folk Cultural Centre in Tamil Nadu India led by two radical Catholic nuns uses the Tamil folk arts to develop selfesteem and economic skills in young Dalit women outcastes or untouchables Sakthi reclaims the degraded parai frame drum to rehumanize and empower the young women through the physical embodiment of confidence in performance and a regenerated cultural identity in a complex campaign against gender class and caste subjugation This ethnomusicological documentary seeks to reveal and analyze Sakthis outstanding model for Dalit womens development that integrates folk arts performance with social analysis microeconomic sustainability selfesteem and community development
Director
Zoe Sherinian