"Sita Sings the Blues" is a retelling of the Hindu epic "The Ramayana" and focuses on the story Sita, the wife of the deity prince, Rama. A story Nina Paley calls "the greatest break-up story ever told." For one reason or another Sita is removed from or rejected by her husband. Somehow, through it all Sita's love for Rama is undying.
To help tell Sita's story Nina uses songs by the 1920's jazz singer, Annette Hanshaw; songs she believed to be public domain. However, Congress had retroactively extended the songs copyrights and to as a result she ran into a plethora of legal issues and fees.
This lead Nina to release the film on the internet for free under the Creative Commons license. Below is a short 16 minute documentary on Paley, her film, and the Creative Commons license. It's pretty inspiring stuff, I think.
YOU CAN WATCH THE WHOLE FILM HERE.
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2 comments:
I love the story of Sita. This was cute.
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