(Out)Caste
2016, 15 minutes
A teenager on the cusp of repeating her mother's damned life -- Will the cycle be stopped?
DASI, a Dalit (‘untouchable’ caste) woman in a Rajasthan desert village, dehydrates one afternoon while making her rounds manual scavenging, emptying the dry toilets of upper caste villagers. This leaves AMRITA, her teen daughter, to finish this work and bring home the Water that could save them both. Can Amrita do this without firmly entering herself into the same cycle of compliant abandonment that was Dasi’s undoing?
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Elena Aksenova
Producer
Jessica Morrison
Production Assistant
Christopher Kistan
Writer / Director
Wynton Wong
Production Assistant
