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MTV, Paramount, Gates Foundation Team on Female Filmmaker-Led Global Gender Equity Shorts Anthology ‘In Bloom’ (EXCLUSIVE)


MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Paramount Global and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have partnered on anthology 'In Bloom.'

Directed by emerging female filmmakers from Nigeria, Kenya, India, the U.S. and Brazil, the anthology addresses a range of issues including period poverty, child marriage, gender-based violence, HIV self- stigma, family planning and women’s economic empowerment. In Bengali-language drama “Alta,” written and directed by Priyanka Banerjee (India), a defiant teenager refusing to come out of the bathroom forces her helpless father to seek help to reason with the girl, but things take a turn when their true relationship is revealed. And Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin and English-language drama “Aféfé,” written and directed by Dolapo ‘LowlaDee’ Adeleke (Nigeria), follows a beautician whose life takes a frightening turn when her elderly and ailing mother-in-law moves in unexpectedly.

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