Director Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör
Country/Production USA
Release 2005
Length 45 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location India, Kolkata, West Bengal / Asia
Prizes/Commendations Winner Material Culture &Archaelology Film Prize 2005
Order No RAI-200.343
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Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize 2005 For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near Kolkata, which have formed a scroll painters' cooperative.
