Manjari Makijany (Skater Girl)

Manjari Makijany's film Skater Girl is about an Indian girl named Prerna (the excellent newcomer Rachel Sanchita Gupta, pictured), who crosses paths with a woman named Jessica (Amrit Maghera) visiting from the UK. Prerna's life path soon changes from housework to practicing ollies at a new skatepark.

Before she could make the film, Makijany first had to build a real skatepark. It remains today in the Rajasthan village where the film takes place.

To make the film — and build the skatepark — Makijany had to convince some powerful men that she was the one calling the shots. Not her husband, or father, or any other male authority figure.

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