India's Daughter

India's Daughter

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(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.

Leslee Udwin

Director

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.