Arts & Entertainment
Lakshmi and Me
For the second year in a row, the Academy partners with Silk Screen to present three films throughout the month of January. Each film will be followed by a discussion on how the ideas presented in the documentaries challenge stereotypes. This week's film is Lakshmi and Me. Here is a description of the film: In this intimate examination of the relationship between Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain and her young maid, Lakshmi, Jain holds up a mirror to her own culture and the pervasive caste system that can still determine an individual’s fate in life. Where servants are habitually treated as social inferiors, this film looks at what can happen when an employer shows empathy and a silent workers finds her voice.