Brooklyn Heights duo presents unique portrait of girls’ school in India
Film ‘Break the Branch’ plays this Saturday
A filmmaker has teamed up with a friend she met in high school in Brooklyn Heights to produce a portrait of a girls’ school in Anupshahr, India, a community that doesn’t believe in educating women.
“Break the Branch,” by director Samantha Cornwell, filmed in conjunction with music and theatre teacher Melanie Closs, is described as a “lyrical, ethereal portrait of a rural Indian girls’ school in lush, sensuous color.”
In the film, we meet several teachers and students who use the school as a means for carving out a fulfilling life for themselves. The stories are woven together poetically, rather than in traditional narrative form.