Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never realized that this condition required just one simple operation until she met Pankaj, a social worker traveling from village to village gathering patients to go to hospital in Varanasi that provides free surgery to thousands each year. This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist journey to a dream smile from isolation and shame.
Genre: Documentary
Stars:
Crew: Megan Mylan (Director), Megan Mylan (Producer), Prassana (Music), Jon Shenk (Director of Photography), Nick Doob (Director of Photography)
Country: United States of America
Language:
Studio: HBO Documentary Films
Runtime: 39 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 31, 2008
IMDb: 4.333
Keywords:woman director, documentary short
