San Diego Asian Film Festival 2008

A DROP OF LIFE is the story of two women, one of rural India and the other from the urban United States, and the convergence of their shared struggle for access to clean drinking water.

Nia, an ambitious young African-American lawyer, represents the interests of Manhattan-based water corporation Hydron. The night before she leaves for India to seal a lucrative, multi-million dollar water deal between Hydron and the Indian government, she boards the elevator in her office building, and has an ominous vision of a pleading Indian child. She sees a global water crisis further dividing the world between the technologically advanced and the economically stricken. Nia's journey to India begins with her guiding a group of water bureaucrats and executives through a desert in a hi-tech van. They travel to a village to demonstrate Hydron's new pilot project water pump which dispenses water with a swipe from a pre-paid credit card.

Mirabai, a young Indian woman with a love for children, has eft her urban middle-class lifestyle in Bombay to become a village teacher. After Devi, her favorite student in the village, dies from not having access to clean water, Mirabai decides to take action.

A DROP OF LIFE is a short fiction film about two women from two continents who discover a common cause critical to the survival of all living things. Filmed and stylized as a futuristic science-fiction film, A DROP OF LIFE points a dynamic global visual eye on the impact of water privatization.