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Driving with Selvi.
Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. In...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
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| Language: | Kannada English |
| Published: |
[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming,
2018.
Collective Eye Films, 2016. |
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| Online Access: |
Streaming video (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | Kanopy |
| Summary: | Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. Instead she gets on the bus, choosing to live ... and goes on to become South India's first female taxi driver. We first meet 18-year-old Selvi at a girls' shelter in 2004 - timid, soft-spoken, a fresh runaway from a difficult life. Over a ten-year journey, we see a remarkable transformation as Selvi finds her voice and defies all expectations - learning to drive, starting her own taxi company, leading seminars to educate other women, and much more. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (53 min.)) : flv file, sound |
| Playing Time: | 00:52:28 |
| Production Credits: | Directed by Elisa Paloschi. |
| Participant or Performer: | Selvi. |
| Language: | In Kannada and English with English subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Collective Eye Films in 2016. |