Small Family, Happy Family

co-director, cinematographer
39 min, digital

Mitilesh, a young woman from Central India, is recruited by local health workers to get sterilized in a mass surgical ‘camp’. As she decides to undergo the surgery, her narrative is situated in the larger context of population control in India - one that has for decades sacrificed women’s health and reproductive rights in the name of economic progress.

Small Family, Happy Family is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources and can be rented for personal use here.

Screenings
February 2019: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
June 2019: Greenwich International Film Festival
June 2019: Women Deliver Film Festival
August 2019: Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
October 2019: United Nations Family Planning Association
December 2019: Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference
January 2020: London School of Economics