The Asian community is hugely sensitive to skin colour. Skin lightening has become big business. Brother and sister, Abdul and Nurjahan, have built a lucrative internet business producing and selling skin lightening serum, but will their first visit to a major Asian lifestyle exhibition bring them the national expansion they seek ?
British Asians from all walks of life want to lighten their skins for many different reasons, but the community is divided about the rights and wrongs of changing such a central part of who you are … your skin colour. An eye-opening observational documentary on the world of Asian skin lightening.
Screening Formats: Digi Beta, Beta SP, DV-Cam
Highlights:
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Make Dox Macedonia 2010
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Reykjavik Short Film Festival 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Milano Film Festival 2008 (in competition)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Ad Hoc: Inconvenient films Human Rights Film Festival Lithuania 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Seattle Int. Film Festival 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Hotdocs 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Salt Spring Island Festival 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Festival Film Dokumenter, Indonesia 2007
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Ofensiva International Film Festival, Poland, as part of “New National Cinema – Scottish Focus” Dec 2007
Links:
Official Website
To arrange a screening contact: info@scotdoc.com
This film was made possible through Bridging the Gap, an opportunity for Scottish-based emerging film makers.
