Showing posts with label international health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international health. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2010

Documentary Screening: Cleft Lip Treatments in India

Title: Smile Pinki, 2008 Academy Award Winner
Wednesday, Jan 27th, 12-1p, 13-105 CHS
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamEXQ8x72c
Description: Pinki is a five-year old girl in rural India born desperately poor and with a cleft lip. The simple surgery that can cure her is a distant dream until she meets Pankaj, a social worker traveling village to village gathering patients for a hospital that provides free surgery to thousands each year. Told in a vibrant verite-style, this real-world fairy tale follows its wide-eyed protagonist on a journey from isolation to embrace. Currently planned as a brown bag lunch.