Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
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Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night is a 2005
documentary film
by filmmaker Sonali Gulati
.
This film explores business process outsourcing in India
. Told from the perspective of an Indian living in the United States, the film provides us with a glimpse into India’s call centers,
where telemarketers acquire American names and accents to service the telephone-support industry of the U.S. The film incorporates animation as a way to build in personal narrative in a doodle-like manner. It also includes live action footage which takes the form of cinema verité and innovatively edited interviews, and archival footage that provides contextual analysis to the socio-political history of globalization and capitalism. The film is a wonderful commentary on identity in the new millennium that intersects diaspora with global outsourcing. It was first shown at the 2005 Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/films/nalini.php.
2005 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...
documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
by filmmaker Sonali Gulati
Sonali Gulati
Sonali Gulati is an award-winning filmmaker and Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Photography & Film.Gulati is originally from New Delhi, India . She received her B.A. in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College in 1996 and M.F.A. in Film & Media Arts from...
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This film explores business process outsourcing in India
Business process outsourcing in India
The business process outsourcing industry in India refers to the business process outsourcing services in the outsourcing industry in India, catering mainly to Western operations of multinational corporations ....
. Told from the perspective of an Indian living in the United States, the film provides us with a glimpse into India’s call centers,
where telemarketers acquire American names and accents to service the telephone-support industry of the U.S. The film incorporates animation as a way to build in personal narrative in a doodle-like manner. It also includes live action footage which takes the form of cinema verité and innovatively edited interviews, and archival footage that provides contextual analysis to the socio-political history of globalization and capitalism. The film is a wonderful commentary on identity in the new millennium that intersects diaspora with global outsourcing. It was first shown at the 2005 Margaret Mead Film Festival
Margaret Mead Film Festival
The Margaret Mead Film Festival is an annual film festival held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It is the longest-running, premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, encompassing a broad spectrum of work, from indigenous community media to...
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/films/nalini.php.
Awards
- Director’s Choice Award, Black Maria Film & Video Festival 2006
- 2nd Prize NextFrame Film Festival
- 1st Prize International Short Film, 24th International Cinemateca Film Festival, Uruguay
- Ledo Matteoli Award for Best Immigrant Story, 39th Annual Humboldt International Film Festival
- Winner, 16th Annual Rosebud Film & Video Festival