Breaking Silences Ending Rape Documentary Available In December

It’s been a long time coming, but AfroLez® Productions has completed Breaking Silences, the two-hour supplemental video to NO! The Rape Documentary. As the producer and director, I’m so excited to be able to share this educational organizing tool with everyone in December 2007.

Breaking Silences features selected in-depth excerpts from the thirty plus hours that didn’t make it into the internationally acclaimed NO! The Rape Documentary. Photographed by Joan Brannon; Edited and Composed by Monica Dillon, Breaking Silences is compartmentalized into five individual segments which feature compelling messages from women and men violence prevention advocates/activists and riveting testimonials from women who are multiple survivors of sexual violence. Funded by the Ford Foundation, Breaking Silences is an ideal educational organizing tool, which can be used both independently and as a supplement to NO! The Rape Documentary.

The chaptered DVD menu gives viewers the option to view the segments separately or in one viewing. You might host a one time screening of the video in its entirety; or, you might host a five-part screening series, which would feature each segment, followed by conversations and workshops, in your dorm, classroom, church, mosque, rape crisis center, shelter, correctional facility, living room, and/or in a community space.

It is an excellent resource for anyone who is taking action or wants to take action in their communities to educate themselves and each other about rape and sexual assault.
More details will be shared soon as the release date gets closer. In the meantime, please SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

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