Screenings

Film Festivals

• International Documentary Festival Amsterdam - World Premiere - Official Competition
• Mill Valley International Film Festival 2004 - U.S. Premiere
• Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival 2004 - Special Jury Award
• Margaret Mead Film Festival 2004
• River to River Indian Film Festival 2004 - Florence, Italy
• Bangkok International Film Festival 2005
• Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2005 - Thessaloniki, Greece
• St. Louis International Film Festival 2005
• Reel Women International Film Festival - Best Documentary
• Los Angeles Indian Film Festival - South Asia Film Festival
• Katmandu, Nepal
• Zanzibar Festival of the Dhow Countries 2005 - Zanzibar, Tanzania
• Victoria Film Festival 2005 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Amakula - Kampala, Uganda
• International South Asian Film Festival - San Francisco, CA

Cinemas

• Red Vic Movie House – San Francisco, CA
• Real Art Ways – Hartford, CT
• The Loft Cinema –Tucson, AZ
• Hollywood –Portland, OR
• Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque – Santa Fe, NM
• Taos Center for the Arts - Taos, NM

Awards

• Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival (Special Jury Award)
• Reel Women International Film Festival (Best Documentary)

Interviews

Radio and TV

• Hartford Public Radio
• Portland, OR Community Radio
• kboo
• kpdq
• Santa Fe Public Radio
• Radio Café
• Honey Harris
• Taos Solar Powered Radio
• Brad’s Morning Show

Magazine

• Society of Operating Cameramen - India New England
• ZERB Journal of Operating Cameramen UK - Article by Laurie Gilbert soc
• MovieMaker Magazine - Color Her Gone - The odyssey of documentarian Gayle Ferraro

Press

• Asian Reporter
• New England Film

Reviews

• Variety
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Sun-Sentinel Florida
• Hartford Chronicle
• Hartford Advocate
• Santa Fe Reporter – Jennifer Lowe: Ferraro’s camera doesn’t hesitate to capture the gorgeous, the garish and the ghoulish indiscriminately

Facts

"I take holy dip in The River every day and my wish is that for the whole life I should be able to do this. And I know what is happening to the river. I know what is fecal coliform. But this is my rationally trained mind and my traditional heart; both are two different working in me." - Mahant Ji, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering

"Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!" - Mark Twain

Kashi is the beloved name that Hindus call the city. Benaras is it's old name and it is still used in Europe. Varanasi is it's modern day name.

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