Nourish in India: Female Representation in Community Leadership

So we finally figured out what we're doing after the film! What looks like the best option is to split up the group because people are flying out of different places at different times. This means that Patrick and I will fly to Mumbai and leave on the 13th or so and fly to Delhi the Sat/Sun before we fly out to Amsterdam. This gives us several nights in one spot. We're both going to be budgeting a lot so that's good and there might be another girl going with us and if she does, our rooms will be even cheaper.
So far, I haven't really explained what we're doing here as far as working on the film, reason being because it's a very complicated issue and difficult to describe over an text, but I'll do my best. Basically, we're creating a film, something between a documentary and an infomercial for Seva Mandir, which focuses on the issue of caste (or Janti) Panchayats. A JP is traditionally a group men who come together from a village and form a sort of governing body to decide on different cases. This exists everywhere but we are focusing on one village, Malaria (haha) and its JP. Each caste has a different Panchayat, which is how it relates to the caste system, but what we're really focusing on is the women's issues at hand. Women have never been allowed to be a part of a JP until one woman took a stand and told the men that she was going to sit on the same platform as them. This has allowed for cases which involve women's issues to be fair.
We've gone to the village twice. The first time, we took a lot of pictures of mostly kids and got some background information. The village is extremely remote and is about 40 min from the highway which is about 30 min from Udaipur. Today, we went back to interview the female JP member and women affected. These women are amazing and have come from miles away just to be a part of the film. All of them come in with their sarees on and heavy tribal silver jewelry. (if I hadn't been working, I would have asked to buy it right off them). They speak Mewari, which some Hindi speakers can understand. In other words I had no idea what the entire meeting was about, but somehow I know that we communicated. I have some sort of understanding of their story and can't wait to actually read the translations.