It's a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World (2012)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- India
The catalogue in 3D
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How it feels
The documentary looks at how cultural traditions and government policies in India and China lead to the killing of newborn girls. It follows the story of one Indian woman who killed eight of her own daughters.
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What happens
It's a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World is a 2012 documentary film which explores the practice of female infanticide. It was directed by Evan Grae Davis and focused primarily on India and China. The United Nations has estimated that up to 200 million females are "missing" today, most of whom would have lived in India and China. The film took four years to shoot. The documentary opens in India, the scene is of a woman standing in a field, who is explaining that she had killed eight of her newborns by strangulation as they were female. Davis had initially set out to create a documentary on sex trafficking and on women being exploited. Having listened to the story from the Indian woman, Davis switched direction, scrapping his first idea, and instead created a documentary with the sole focus being gendercide. Davis focused on China and female infanticide in India, as cultural norms, combined with such cultural practices as India's dowry system and China's one-child policy, have an important role in the practice. Evan Grae Davis has worked for the Harvest Media Ministry, an organization that makes pro-life videos for church groups. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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