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rape is... premiere (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rebecca Hurwitz)
Sat Apr 6 14:34:26 2002
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:34:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Rebecca Hurwitz <beckyh@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
I'm Becky Hurwitz, an undergrad at MIT. I've been interning with
Cambridge Documentary Films inc (www.cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org) who
is premiering their newest film "Rape is...".
Cambridge Doc produces movies to teach about social issues like rape,
media consumption, alcohol advertising, domestic abuse. They produce
responsible films and really believe in what they are doing.
There's a full description of th film below and directions to the venue
(on the Harvard Campus). Please consider attending this screening.
Thank you,
Becky
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Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:15:31 +0000
From: laura mason <laura_mason78@hotmail.com>
Subject: rape is... premiere
We're have been working on a 34 minute video for nearly a year...and it's
finally finished...and it's fabulous.
We're premiering "Rape is..." this Sunday (i'm pasting in a description
below). Our screening is the kickoff event for Harvard's "Take Back the
Night" activities. The premiere is free, though the TBTN organizers will
most likely pass the hat to collect donations for their rape
awareness/empowerment efforts. The details:
Sunday April 7th at 7PM in Askwith Lecture room, Longfellow Hall, Harvard
School of Education, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
Please email/call me with any questions and pass this on to anyone you know
who might be interested.
Hope you can make it!
take care,
laura
"Rape is…," a new documentary video, explores the meaning, severity, and
consequences of rape. It expands the narrow ways we think of sexual
violence, and demonstrates that it is not a sporadic and rare occurrence,
but a cultural and criminal outrage that effects millions of women,
children and men all over the world.
"Rape is…" looks at rape from a global and historical perspective, but
focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that make it the most
underreported crime in America. Many types of sexual assault are not
considered a serious crime by the legal system and our society refuses to
see the true cost of this brutal denial of human rights
"Rape is…" includes the poetry and ideas of Salamishah Tillet, co producer
of the performance piece on rape, "A Long Walk Home." Eve Ensler,
playwright, "The Vagina Monologues," and activist explores the ideas behind
V-day, stop rape actions. Vednita Carter, is the founder and director of
Breaking Free, an organization that helps prostitutes. Her insights about
the connections between prostitution and rape, inform "Rape is…" Diane
Rosenfeld is a Fellow at Harvard Law School and teaches in the women's
studies department at Harvard. She provides crucial ideas about the issue.
His uncle repeated abused Rich Ridlon when he was a young child. Rich has
also spent 8 years in various prisons and criminal institutions. His
perspectives on the consequences of rape and his understanding of prison
rape, are critical to the understanding of rape. The psychological and
social insights of rape survivor, Kathy Girod makes the consequences of rape
starkly evident.
Few are likely to dispute that a sexual attack by a stranger is an act of
rape, but what about the far more common acts of sexual violence committed
by relatives, dates, "boy friends", or "customers" of the increasingly
lucrative sex trades? This documentary explores these complicated issues,
but always focuses on the terrible price that survivors of these acts pay,
not only in physical pain but in the psychological damage caused by the loss
of trust, the guilt and confusion, and the destruction of self esteem.
"Rape is.." is in the tradition of the previous films of CDF, a challenging
and often deeply troubling documentary. But it is unlikely to allow
audiences to leave with the complacent and inhumane view that rape is simply
a crime or that, as one misguided judge claimed about the eleven year old
victim of an adult rapist, "It takes two to Tango".
"Rape is…" will anger some, upset many, and wake up everyone who views it to
the reality of a world where sexual violence puts millions of women,
children, and men in a state of terror and dread.
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