BBC documentary's US premier to be attended by Streep, Pinto

March 07, 2015 11:17

The BBC documentary, depicting the aftermath of the brutal gang rape and murder of the pre-med student in 2012, will have its US premier next week and will be attended by Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep and Frieda Pinto in a show of support for the film banned in India.

The US premier of the documentary Storyville: India's daughter on March 9 at the Baruch College of the City University of New York will be presented by NGO Vital Voices Global Partnership and children's development organisation Plan International.

Streep and Pinto, who is Plan's 'Because I am a Girl' global ambassador, will be joined by the documentary's director Leslee Udwin at the screening.

Udwin, a Plan ambassador, said the December 2012 rape and the protests that followed was an 'Arab spring for gender equality'. "What impelled me to leave my husband and 2 children for 2 years while I made the film in India was not so much the horror of the rape as the inspiring and extraordinary eruption on the streets. A cry of 'enough is enough'."

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