KAMALI | 24 Min | Video
‘Kamali is a symbol of the potential young girls have when they are allowed to follow their passions and play,’ says Sasha Rainbow, the director behind the documentary on the nine year old skateboarding star from Tamil Nadu, Kamali Moorthy. The little girl shot to fame last year when the world saw her skateboarding skills shared by skateboarding champions Jamie Thomas and Tony Hawk. The viral picture of Kamali set into motion a series of events that brought Sasha to Kamali and her mother Suganthi finally propelling her to make a documentary on the mother-daughter duo.
It's a story filled with heart and hope. The beauty of their relationship is the reciprocity of empowerment and courage as the two women rise up to the challenges of the patriarchal society and dismantle it. Their triumphant journeys together is an important testament of what happens when women break free from the shackles of a prejudiced society and do not conform to rigid ideals of womanhood.
Nominated: Best British Short Film | 2020 BAFTAs
Winner: Best Short Documentary | 2019 Atlanta Film Festival
Winner: Best Documentary Short | 2019 Raindance Film Festival
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Sasha Rainbow is a New Zealand-born director and writer whose unique sensibility and vision inflects both her film and commercial work. Based in Los Angeles, Sasha is in development for several feature films.
Sasha believes in the power of storytelling to showcase true heroic role models, which she thinks is just what the world needs.