in the Boston International Film Festival
Notes from the Director:
As a first step, household staff and their friends were roped into various capacities – making flyers that would be inserted into newspapers at night, canvassing at schools, visiting local hutments and persuading dwellers to come for auditions – while simultaneously combating rumors that we were after their kidneys, pleading with government bureaucrats, putting up posters etc.. When we wanted to place an ad in the newspapers for the landlady, we found to our surprise that we couldn’t do so. So instead, we decided to advertise for household help: “female, aged 35 to 50, needed to care for elderly parents”. When unsuspecting ladies turned up for an interview, conversations would inadvertently steer towards film, what a wonderful art acting was, and how rarely ordinary people got a chance to prove their talent.
Snap Judgment 