ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS

 

We advocate for personal storytelling from underrepresented communities in documentary film and nonfiction media. We believe that having media that expresses the breadth and depth of our experiences is critical to understanding ourselves as well as creating more cross-cultural understanding.

Survivor-Centered Filmmaking Practices

 
Our interest in Survivor Centered Filmmaking Practices arose during our advoacy campaign to bring awareness to the unethical practices in the making of Sabaya, a film featuring Yazidi survivors of sexual enslavement. We continue to advocate against exploitative filmmaking and to bring best practices in working respectfully with survivors of sexual violence and abuse.
 

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Survivor-Centered Filmmaking Practices

The Gift of Consent by Jennifer Huang, Treeclimber Media In 2015, I sat down in a hot, sunny cottage in Cebu, Philippines with “Sara” for my first interview with a survivor of sex trafficking for my documentary film, The Long Rescue. Even though she barely knew me, Sara poured out her story, including experiences she […]

Sabaya Film Disregards Ethical Standards and Puts Survivors at Risk

Sherizaan Minwalla is a human rights lawyer and researcher who has been based in Iraq for more than a decade. She has worked closely with the Yazidi community and survivors since the 2014 genocide. In one of the scenes of Sabaya, a woman who was just rescued … was pressured to remove her face covering […]

Documenting Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

  A GUIDE TO ETHICAL REPORTING AND MEDIA A team of journalists and filmmakers who regularly work on issues of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) wrote the guide “Reporting on Sexual Violence in Conflict” to prevent the kinds of issues found in the making of Sabaya. This guide describes the following key principles in detail.   […]

The Power of Personal Documentary Films

 

The Power of Personal Documentary Films summarizes the findings of focus groups and an online survey that inquired about the experiences of emerging documentary filmmakers of color in the industry. In particular, we looked at the impacts of white supremacy on filmmakers.
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