Description:
India's
street vendors and rickshaw drivers are among the country's most
vulnerable citizens. For years they've lived and worked without legal
protections and without access to financial services, and have been
subject to harassment by the police, the mafia, and others. NIDAN is
working to change all that by organizing them to stand up for their
own rights and stop "feeding milk to the snake."
Biography
Gabriel
Diamond is the staff filmmaker for the Skoll Foundation where he
documents the work of visionaries and social entrepreneurs. A short
documentary/music video he co-directed called Rise features a concept he birthed called a “Vulnerable Rally” and has
over 1.2 million views online. In 2010 he completed Less,
a feature narrative film about a man who chose to be homeless on the
streets of San Francisco. It won Honorable Mention at Dances with
Films and is available on Amazon Prime. Along with Ken Ikeda he
co-founded the Youth Sounds Factory, a filmmaking lab for Bay Area
youth. Works created under his mentorship won top prizes at dozens of
national festivals including an Emmy. In his work he strives to
promote empathy, magic between strangers, and inspiring ideas.
