Leslee Udwin
About
Leslee Udwin, producer-director, has won the British Academy Award (BAFTA) for her feature film East is East, and her drama-documentary Who Bombed Birmingham, starring John Hurt, helped release six Irishmen from 17 years of wrongful imprisonment.
India's Daughter
(2014 Spotlighting Women Documentary Award)
This documentary pays tribute to the remarkable and inspiring short life of Jyoti Singh and documents the brutality of her gang-rape and murder in Delhi in 2012. It also examines the mindset of the perpetrators, and it sets these specifics against a wider in-depth exploration of why rape happens.