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Overall_Chef6811 t1_ir28ylp wrote

What do you hope to achieve with your film, is it to make it a better place for the transgender people there or what?

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Luigi_Conte OP t1_ir2aqvx wrote

Of course making a film like this means also trying to produce some social change: regarding the transgender people themselves we're implementing a partecipative approach, involving them in the realization of the documentary, giving them a voice, and training some of them in using cameras. Then it will be their job to use these skills in an autonomous way. On the other side we would like to show how is such a complicated context a deep social change is actually happening faraway from the much highlighted Kashmiri dispute and the violence that has been affecting the local people in the last decades. In a third perspective we would like to break the stereotypes western people often have about tolerance in a Muslim society, especially considering that Kashmiri Muslims are themselves a minority in in the wider context of India, and they're often depicted as fundamentalists and terrorists.

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