DOT Desk: British-Bangladeshi writer, director, actor and playwright, Leesa Gazi has dedicated her career to presenting powerful stories told from a woman’s perspective, via theatre and film, reports The Daily Star BD.
Her documentary film, Rising Silence, memorialising accounts of Birangona women of the 1971 Liberation War, recently premiered at the Dhaka International Film Festival 2019.
Produced by Komola Collective, Openvizor and Making Herstory, the film is scheduled to have a second screening today at 7 pm at the Public Library Auditorium in Shahbagh.
To find out more about the journey braved by Leesa Gazi and her team in making Rising Silence, The Daily Star caught up with the writer-director of the highly anticipated documentary for a chat.
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