Driving with Selvi.
Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. In...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | Kannada |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Collective Eye Films,
2016.
Kanopy Streaming, 2018. |
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| Summary: | Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. Instead she gets on the bus, choosing to live... and goes on to become South India's first female taxi driver. We first meet 18-year-old Selvi at a girls' shelter in 2004 - timid, soft-spoken, a fresh runaway from a difficult life. Over a ten-year journey, we see a remarkable transformation as Selvi finds her voice and defies all expectations - learning to drive, starting her own taxi company, leading seminars to educate other women, and much more. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time: | 00:52:28 |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |