The Orphan Lute

2020, Short Film

Release Year: August 27, 2020
Country: United States
Director: Biplab Das
Writer: Cory McCants, Alan Trinca
Producer: Manolo Campos, Alan Trinca, Cory McCants

This contemporary film touches upon the inner struggle of a child labourer who has been deprived of his childhood and is destined to live in a hot, dusty page of a novel unless fate chooses to throw him a lifeline.

In this short film the main character is a little boy who is an orphan as well as a child labour. He works in a roadside hotel. One day after getting up from his bed he goes to a nearby river to clean the utensils of the hotel. There he notices a fish lying on the shore is about to die due to insufficient water. This incident makes the child shocked. Applying his intelligence the child tries his best and makes a way to help the fish to reach the watercourse. This effort of the child reflects his wish to set himself free from his painful captive life as child labour.

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About the Director

38-year-old Biplab Das tried his hand as a short filmmaker in the year 2017. The short film ‘The Orphan Lute’ marked his debut as a director. In the past, he worked with many national and international channels such as Discovery (wild-frank-asia-stagione-1-episodio-3) , National Geography( Acharya Satyananda arrested Documentary), Al-jazeera (A Curse In the Family, Documentary), MTV(Rodies 2005), NDTV India etc to make documentaries and various programmers on various subjects.
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