After her husband left her via email — essentially stranding her in New York City, far from her former San Francisco home — animator Nina Paley was depressed. Really depressed. It was then that she decided to forge ahead with an incredibly ambitious project. Working from her New York apartment, she would expand the scope of a series of shorts she had been working on (they set stories from an ancient Hindu epic, the Ramayana, to the tunes of early jazz singer Annette Hanshaw) to feature-film length. Talk about a personal film.
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Saw this film at Tribeca. Really amazing work. Bravo!
Posted by xtine on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 @ 05:34 PM
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she inspires me to try harder to do my own thing
Posted by kinduun on Sunday, June 1, 2008 @ 11:37 AM
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beautiful work. Now I need to find where I can buy the feature-length DVD.
Posted by jonson roth on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 @ 01:43 PM
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Excellent work. But at least she should maintain dignity of thousands of year old religion.
Anyway it\'s a short cut to become a famous overnight.
Posted by Chirag Rana on Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 08:04 AM
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great..where can i see this movie...
Posted by sandeep on Friday, August 22, 2008 @ 04:24 AM
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its realy amazing and stylized work i like it, very good
Posted by Himanshu Trivedi on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 06:03 AM
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Good news, Sita fans: New York's PBS station, WNET Channel Thirteen, has posted the entire film online at its blog, Reel 13. Watch it here: http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/blog/watch-sita-sings-the-blues-online/347/
Posted by Beth Marchant on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 @ 10:37 AM
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