Reviews and Festivals
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Highly recommended. Michealene Cristini Risley's powerful documentary is shocking, chilling, yet heartening by turns, showing the difference that Betty Makoni is making and how her work with the Girl Child Network is trying to counter the horrible sexual violence against women in Zimbabwe, generated by the promotion of a superstitious fallacy."
— Educational Media Reviews Online“The footage Risley captured – particularly interviews with rape survivors and admitted rapists alike – is an incredibly compelling 77 minutes. The most striking element of the documentary is not the hell that the young rape survivors profiled have lived through, but their unbreakable spirit. The film is a vibrant international call to action and a breathtaking portrait of hope in the face of overwhelming odds. ”
— Jessica Mosby, TheWIP.net
“Documents one of the most astonishing and harrowing developments in contemporary Africa…Offers a very rare view of a politically brutalized nation that has been off-limits to most Western journalists.”
— Video LibrarianWINNER
Women in Film & Television, Best Documentary
Women in Film & Television, Best Director
Honolulu Int’l Film Festival, Aloha Accolade Award
Accolade Film Awards, Award of Merit
Louisville Int’l Festival of Film, Best Documentary
The Indie Fest, Award of Excellence