From the award-winning director, writer and NYU film professor Manoshi Chitra Neogy, Sand Shades is an ode to women, of all races and walks of life. The film weaves the dual tales of a young Indian woman named Shumona: in one life, the woman adopts her heritage’s culture with its constraints and limitations; in the other, she journeys to the West in search of freedom, leaving behind her native India’s empty rituals, hypocrisy and social aberrations (like the de-valuation of girls and the archaic ritual of arranged marriage). Dubbed a cinepoem, the film will trace the ebbs and flows of these two parallel lives led by a character who embodies the bridge between East and West, and represents Womanhood with a capital W.
Termeh Mazhari at New York Buzz is excited about a film that is still in the making.
Instead, she opted to raise funding for Sand Shades in a unique way: by asking for 1-dollar donations from women across the globe. A difficult undertaking, but Neogy and Janssen look forward to the challenge.
For more information on Sand Shades, or to make a donation, visit www.SandShades.org.
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Having read this screen play, I feel this cinepoem as the embodiment of feminine experience at a time which cries out for the goddess energy. The protagonist is at worst used and degraded and at best misunderstood in a world cemented in mundane values while she soars the heights of esoteric wisdom in all she does. I believe this is an important work to usher us into this young century with a forward-thinking momentum toward the essential thought adjustments not only to evolve but even survive the challenges of our new age. We need this film, and I eagerly await its coming to life on the screen.