SITA SINGS THE BLUES - HERE WE ARE

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"Sita Sings the Blues" is based on the Hindu epic "The Ramayana". Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina Paley is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of torch singer Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told." It is written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley.

"Sita Sings the Blues" was released in 2008 only after long negotiations with the copyright holders of the 80-year-old songs recorded by Annette Hanshaw. Following the experience of almost having her film blocked from distribution, Nina Paley released it freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, and now devotes a significant portion of her time to free culture activism. She is Artist in Residence at the non-profit QuestionCopyright.org.

If you'd like to help pay off the $50,000.00 loan she took out to pay the music monopoly fee, you can donate to the Sita Distribution Project (tax-deductible in the US) at http://questioncopyright.org/sita_dis... . Donations to that project go exclusively to that purpose and other expenses Nina incurred in releasing the film. You can also purchase DVDs, prints, shirts, and other Sita-related merchandise at http://questioncopyright.com/sita.html ; revenue is shared with Nina Paley.

For more about the film and about Nina Paley's other work, see http://sitasingstheblues.com .

For more about how retroactive copyright restrictions almost prevented the release of the film, see this interview with Nina Paley: http://questioncopyright.org/nina_pal... .

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• india
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• annette
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• jazz
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• forest
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• nature
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• hanshaw

[EGraceFMusic101]

I love this movie!!! This is my favorite song in the movie

[julieanne677]

Oh dear, adirider1. Ramayana has been modified countless times throughout history. This is just beautiful -why be so angry -it's clearly made with love. Which parts show a sick mentality???

[mphello]

No doubt, morally and ethically, the extreme copyright to get hold of this particular recording (by Annette Hanshaw) of this particular song is wrong, and if I had any money I'd give some of it to QuestionCopyright(org). Nevertheless, why would Nina Paley go through such expense and trouble to obtain the copyright for her animated cartoon? Surely there are TONS of OTHER songs or music should could have attached to this animated cartoon!

[hiblackie]

Let me begin by saying that I'm not indian. However, I fully read the story of Ramayana and i'm asian. I love this movie very much especially its contemporary interpretation.

[adirider1]

I accept Hinduism is about tolerance. it will accept any critical remarks, critics views but how far. if u guys just put some holy scripture modified with ur so called Independence of thought and present it in the audience with ur vision which of course showing ur sick mentality its not fine..if ur interested in history show the truth why fucking lies to gain popularity....i like Ramayana and dont want any asshole to modified it according to his/her wish

[Nannirk]

Several of the links don't work, because they've been cut off or something.

[channel323232]

wtf mate?