In the lanes of Kalighat, Kolkata’s densely populated red-light area, a quiet revolution is brewing – armed with lights, cameras, and scripts.
Since 2017, CAM-ON, a collective of 18 sex workers and their children, has been working on short films to confront stigma and fight discrimination. Their journey – both cinematic and personal – is now the subject of Redlight to Limelight, a feature-length documentary by filmmaker Bipuljit Basu, which recently screened at the prestigious Sheffield Documentary Festival in the UK.
