'India's Daughter' Filmmaker Defends Documentary Amid Growing Criticism — hollywoodreporter.com

Filmmaker Leslee Udwin, whose documentary on a notorious Indian rape case has been banned by authorities in that country, is on a campaign to defend her work, which was commissioned by the BBC. This week, she told a Beverly Hills audience at an onstage salon hosted by Tina Brown that opposition to her work in India is the product of misogynist cultural traditions and misplaced national pride. “Like many countries on Earth national pride comes into the decision,” Udwin told an audience gathered for Brown’s Women in the World gathering at the Montage Beverly Hills hotel on Wednesday. “I think it’s a misplaced notion. I think it has boomeranged and backfired.”

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