Breaking Free (film)

Breaking Free
Directed bySridhar Rangayan
Written bySridhar Rangayan, Saagar Gupta
Produced bySolaris Pictures
Distributed bySolaris Pictures
Release date
  • 29 May 2015 (2015-05-29)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi/ English

Breaking Free is a 2015 film directed by Sridhar Rangayan and produced by Solaris Pictures. In this documentary, filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377 and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society. The film was selected to be part of the Indian Panorama (non-Fiction) and screened at International Film Festival of India in 2015. [1]

It won the Rajat Kamal National Award for Best Editing (Non-Fiction) in 2016 for its editors Pravin Angre and Sridhar Rangayan. It also won the Barbara Gittings Human Rights Award at qFLIX Philadelphia in 2016.[2][3] It is currently streaming on Netflix.[4]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "In a First, LGBT Documentary Makes It to the Indian Panorama". The Better India. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  2. ^ Breaking Free - IMDb, retrieved 20 November 2019
  3. ^ "Sridhar Rangayan on the National Award, gay pride and the road ahead". The Better India. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  4. ^ "9 Movies to Watch on Netflix for LGBTQ History Month". newnownext.com. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.