Every 13th hour, a child below 10 years is raped.
~ Working group of Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1998
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The silence that shrouds the issue of child sexual abuse is deafening. Feelings of guilt, shame, self blame abounds in a society, which afraid of social disgarce, refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of the crime.
Pedestrian pictures
invites you to a screening of
The children we sacrifice
Directed by Grace Poore, SHaKTI productions
61 mins/colour/vhs/2000
on 7 june 2002, Saturday
at 5:30 p.m., Feroze’s Estate Agency
on Cunningham Road, Bangalore
Shot in India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the US, The Children We Sacrifice is a 61-minute video documentary that explores the universal crime of incestuous sexual abuse through the prism of South Asian experience. Through stories by women abused from as young as two, the 61-minute video looks at the social and cultural resistance to dealing with incest and how it affects South Asian women on two continents. Throughout the documentary, images of childhood are juxtaposed against the ironies of home as source of refuge and violation, family as source of comfort and betrayal. This is no sensationalist treatment of the women who share their stories of abuse but a celebration of their struggle and resilience. It is a moving validation of those who confront different levels of silences around a deeply camouflaged issue.
"The Children We Sacrifice" won the 2000 Rosebud Award and the 2001 Creating A Voice Award. It featured in the International Women's Film Festival in Korea, United Nations Women's Film Festival in New York City.
Grace Poore is a South Asian feminist lesbian writer and video activist who produces and uses video to advocate for an end to violence against women and girls.
Anita Ratnam from Samvada, an organization which provides couselling to college age survivors of CSA as well as training to peer counsellor groups in schools and colleges about CSA prevention, will lead the discussion.
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