This documentary can\u2019t help but be moving as it follows the Cam On group in Kolkata, who are creating a drama based on their experiences \u2013 even if it could do with more depth<\/p>\n
Cam On is a film-making collective comprising some of the estimated 500 sex workers and their children who live in Boro Goli, the red light district in Kalighat, a desperately poor area on the southern edge of Kolkata. \u201cThe street holds many stories,\u201d says Rabin, the son of a Nepalese woman who was sold by her uncle into sex work at 12. \u201cLove and threat at every turn.\u201d He is the director of the film the collective is making, Nupur: The Story of Two Sisters. It\u2019s a fictionalised amalgam of many of the members\u2019 real experiences and tells the tale of an older sister who hopes to escape the fate that seems set for her and a younger one who lacks hope that it is possible.<\/p>\n
Redlight to Limelight is the documentary \u2013 part of the BBC\u2019s award-winning Storyville strand \u2013 by Bipuljit Basu that follows them as they make their film, building art out of suffering, creating something worthwhile in an environment that seems hellbent on allowing nothing.<\/p>\n