I met independent filmmaker Mohammed Naqvi a couple of years ago when he participated in the IFP Director's Lab, which I taught. Now, he's finished a powerful film, Shame, which is a doc version of the dramatic script he was writing back then. Premiering on Showtime this week, the film "tells the true story of international human rights icon Mukhtaran Mai, a Pakistani peasant who was gang-raped and publicly shamed in her village, but used her trauma to spark a legal revolution that exposed centuries of brutal tribal conflict and government mismanagement."
Here are the Showtime dates:
Showtime May 31 9:00 PM Showtime Too Jun 3 8:00 PM Showtime Jun 6 6:15 PM Showtime Jun 11 6:30 PM Showtime Too Jun 12 5:55 PM
And here is the trailer:
# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 6/01/2007 03:23:00 PM
