Private Project

The Twice Discriminated

An in depth look at the life of Dalit Christians in the Southern State of India, Tamil Nadu. It explores the origin and continuing practice of untouchability. Thesis project at the University of Iowa.

  • Bala Kailasam
    Director
  • Bala Kailasam
    Editing
  • Bala
    Sound
  • Sharmista Mohanty
    Narration
  • Henry Thiagaraj
    Research and Coordination
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 21 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 1987
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Umatic
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Bala Kailasam

An engineering graduate trained in Film and Broadcasting at the University of Iowa, Bala Kailasam worked in various capacities as Director, Script Writer, Editor and Sound Recordist for several films and videos. He had a wide range of interests, including culture and aesthetics, and he was also an activist. In 1991 his documentary ‘Vaastu Marabu’ won the Best Film on Art and Culture in the 38th National Film Festival in India. An extremely innovative Producer, he managed to produce radically different programmes on main stream television in India. With the opening of the Indian skies to Satellite television from 1993 onwards, he withdrew from hands-on filmmaking and concentrated on nurturing the company ‘Min Bimbangal Productions Private Limited’ (MBPL) into a top-class Television Software Company. As the Creative and Business Head of MBPL he has produced more than 3000 hours of qualitatively differentiated programming in various Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. He was the Creative Head of Puthiya Thalaimurai TV, a 24 hours NEWS channel in Tamil, and led the launch of the channel from scratch and made it the No. 1 News Channel in Tamil within 3 months.

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