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May 1, 2013
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WATCH: A Story of Humanity Amongst the Many Faces of Suffering

A new documentary, Zanta, produced by Beijing-based foreign correspondent Jocelyn Ford, has blurred the lines of politics, gender, religion and ethnicity that remain widely unrepresented in the sphere of mainstream media. Undistorted by the stiff lines of geopolitics, Zanta tells the story of a 26 year old Tibetan widow and her fight to exist in a life challenged by violent gender and ethnic discrimination. Living in destitution, with a 2 year old son who believed his father was away on business, continuously threatened by her late husband’s family, Zanta discovers a radical solution. Remembering a conversation she had with an American journalist who once bought a bracelet from her (the documentary’s producer) she announces to her family that she will travel to Beijing and give her son over to this woman. Determined to give her son a better future but battling a life of hardship and inequality, Zanta and Jocelyn unfold a real story of humanity amongst the many faces of suffering.

Dates and locations for film screenings are yet to be announced.

Discover more about Zanta here.

Read our special feature Tibet: Inside the Occupation.



About the Author

Jessica Trevis
Jessica Trevis is a recent graduate from the University of Manchester where she studied History and Sociology with a specialization in China. She has also studied at the University of Hong Kong and for the last two years has studied Mandarin Chinese, as well as writing a dissertation on Uighur and Tibetan nationalism. With a keen interest in human rights and the third sector she is now an intern at Amnesty International in London. She loves travelling and the enmeshing of different cultures. Her main areas of interest are Asia/Middle Eastern politics with a strong interest in intervention, ethnic minority and refugee issues.
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