2011
Getting Ahead details a women’s vegetable seller cooperative in Kathmandu, struggling against money lenders and landlords who are treating them unfairly. The cooperative seeks out a piece of land they will buy in order to gain independence, and imagines what they will build there. Jayanti, the star of the film, speaks about the changing relationship between genders in a contemporary Nepal.
I made this film in collaboration with Lumanti, a women’s empowerment organization in Nepal