{"id":38050,"date":"2021-10-15T23:48:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/15\/i-will-have-a-better-life-dalit-womans-struggle-to-tell-her-story-on-film"},"modified":"2021-10-15T23:48:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:48:16","slug":"the-heaven-of-film-making-how-a-dalit-orphan-got-to-tell-her-own-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38050","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The heaven of film-making\u2019: how a Dalit orphan got to tell her own story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gift of a camera inspired Belmaya Nepali to rise above poverty and abuse to make documentaries<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/oct\/11\/i-am-belmaya-review-nepali-dalit-filmmaker\">I Am Belmaya review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Belmaya Nepali\u2019s life changed for ever when, at 14, she was given a camera.<\/p>\n<p>The British film-maker Sue Carpenter had come to Pokhara, a tourist city in central Nepal, to run a photography project with disadvantaged girls living in an institution. One of those girls was Belmaya.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/15\/i-will-have-a-better-life-dalit-womans-struggle-to-tell-her-story-on-film\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gift of a camera inspired Belmaya Nepali to rise above poverty and abuse to make documentaries\u2022 I Am Belmaya reviewBelmaya Nepali\u2019s life changed for ever when, at 14, she was given a camera.The British film-maker Sue Carpenter had come to Pokhara, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1128,707,934,615,69,59,241,958,552,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-dalits","category-documentary-films","category-domestic-violence","category-education","category-film","category-global-development","category-nepal","category-poverty","category-social-exclusion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38051,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050\/revisions\/38051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}