The India Space Opera

2016- 2015 • Feature Film • Awaiting Release

Documentary

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By 2030, it is expected to be the world's most populous country. It has more than 600,000 villages and a slew of enormous cities. And every year, it spends a billion dollars on a space program to put its astronauts on the moon one day. And yet today, India has 840 million citizens living on less than a dollar a day. Shepherds, farmers, fishermen, pilgrims, old and penniless widows, children forced to work, young women with burned faces all are experiencing, directly and tangibly, the effects of a gaping socioeconomic divide. Korbett Matthews invites us to meet some of them, creating a portrait of a country grappling with numerous deep contradictions.