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Directed by Nisha Pahuja Edited by David Kazala Director Nisha Pahuja Music director Ken Myhr | 7.6/10 IMDb 3.5/5 Amazon Written by Nisha Pahuja Release date 6 June 2014 (India) Screenplay Nisha Pahuja | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Ed Barreveld
Nisha Pahuja
Cornelia Principe Cinematography Mrinal Desai
Derek Rogers Production
company Storyline Entertainment Nominations Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary Cast Pooja Chopra, Ruhi Singh, Prachi Trivedi, Ankita Shorey, Marc Robinson Similar Driving with Selvi, The Forgotten Woman, India's Daughter, Gulabi Gang, The Five Obstructions Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The world before her 2012 trailer
The World Before Her is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2012. Written and directed by Nisha Pahuja, the film explores the complex and conflicting environment for young girls in India by profiling two young women participating in two very different types of training camp — Ruhi Singh , who aspires to become Miss India, and Prachi Trivedi, a Hindu nationalist with the Durga Vahini.
The film was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story in 2014. It also won the awards for Best Canadian Feature at the 2012 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Best Documentary Feature at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, and was a nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. The film won the award of Best International Documentary Film at the 2013 Byron Bay International Film Festival.
On June 6, 2014, the film was released to widespread critical acclaim in India, the country it depicts, with the help of filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. A critic for Firstpost called it "one of the most important, skillfully made and powerfully provocative films to come in a long time."