JOY Interview Highlights

18 May 2015

I Will Not Be Silenced

Arts, Community, Society & Culture, TV & Film

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Sonja from Second Breakfast speaks with director Judy Rymer about her documentary film “d” which is opening the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in Melbourne this year.

This confronting but very important film is about Australian Charlotte Campbell Stephen, who was attacked and raped by a gang of men while living in Kenya in 2006.

Spurred on by comments from one of her lawyers that “no one wins rape cases in Kenya”, she decides to take her rapists to court. This was to be the beginning of seven years of struggling through the frustrating labyrinth of Kenya’s legal system.

Undaunted, Charlotte ploughs on, becoming involved in advocacy groups and bringing hope to Nairobi’s many rape victims, in a story of justice, indomitable spirit and female solidarity.

There will be two encore screenings of “I Will Not Be Silenced” through the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival on Sunday 17 May at 6:30PM and on Monday 18 May at 6:30PM. Tickets can be booked at HRAFF 2015.

This episode of Second Breakfast aired on the 7th of May 2015.