LET THEM SPEAK: DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE


Date

8th February 2019

Description

A 53 minute documentary film premiere featuring four courageous Wongi Aboriginal women who speak of the catastrophic effects of intergenerational sexual abuse they have suffered, shared and face as a Family.

Produced

Sharon Hume, Rosemary Bailey, Barbara McGillivray and Jillian Heneker.

Event MC

Megan Krakouer - NICRS (National Indigenous Critical Response Service)

Panel Chair

Dr. Hannah McGlade - Curtin University - legal academic and practitioner with special interest in Indigenous human rights.

Read the article written by Hannah McGlade at https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2019/02/11/its-time-change-aboriginal-women-will-stand-strong-against-sexual-violence-1

Increasingly, Aboriginal women are speaking out against men who sexually abused them as children. Last week in Perth the National Indigenous Critical Response Project launched Let Them Speak a documentary about four Aboriginal sisters from Leonora speaking out about sexual abuse they experienced. The film was launched at the same time as the report of the WA Coroner into the deaths of 12 Aboriginal youth in the Kimberley.

Executive Production

Gerry Georgatos - Institute for Social Justice and Human Rights (ISJHR) and the National Child Sexual Abuse Trauma Recovery Project (NCSATRP).

Music

Delly Stokes & Daughters ( Josephine, Iesha, Marika, Uniquewa)

Filmed and edited

Alexander Hayes & Magali McDuffie from Ngikalikarra Media, Perth, Western Australia.

Location

Kim Beazley Theatre, Murdoch University, Western Australia
Building 351 Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch WA 6150

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