Oscar-Winning Documentary Tackles Global Stigma Surrounding Menstruation

'In many places around the world, including rural India, menstruation can mean the end of young woman’s ability to go to school or even to move around her village freely. It's an obstacle that has a lot to do with the shame that keeps women from talking about periods in the first place. The Oscar-winning short documentary, Period: End of Sentence, follows what happened when a group of teenage girls in North Hollywood started a fundraising drive to send a low-cost sanitary pad machine to a village outside of New Delhi, India. The Takeaway spoke with the film's director, Rayka Zehtabchi .'