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COMPLEXION

By Lia BELTRAMI

INDIE RIGHTS - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

Documentary - Completed 2022

COMPLEXion is a documentary that aims to unpack the hegemony of skin color globally and challenge the archaic notions that exist surrounding it. Our mission is to defy toxic beauty standards through raw human stories.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Lia BELTRAMI
- Cast
- Nina DAVULURI
- Synopsis
- Through the voice and personal journey of Nina Davuluri, an acclaimed activist, actor, entrepreneur and first Indian American and South Asian to become Miss America, COMPLEXion, we will meet women and men, schoolkids, grandparents, young men from India & Bangladesh - many people with similar vulnerabilities and personal stories of inequalities. Why do beauty standards exist? What is the socioeconomic impact of skin lightening creams? Why does colorism exist? Is colorism inherently racism?
  COMPLEXion forces us to be better, dig deeper and answer the question, WHY? The time is NOW!