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De Miriam Chandy et Miriam Chandy Menacherry

From the Shadows

#MissingGirls
Image du film From the Shadows - FIFDH 2021
IMPACT DAYS

From The Shadows utilise l’imagerie de l’art public pour explorer les récits manquants. Le film suit un artiste dans un trou noir qui met en lumière les histoires personnelles des survivants et leur combat pour la justice. Une bataille judiciaire épuisante pose la question de savoir si les forces de l’ordre, au lieu de protéger les victimes, font en réalité partie d’un réseau qui les exploite. Le film explore l’intersection de l’art et de l’activisme pour dresser le portrait d’un ensemble improbable de femmes ordinaires qui utilisent des moyens ingénieux pour défier l’emprise d’une industrie de trafic transfrontalier de plusieurs milliards de dollars.

Section : Impact Days
Pays : Inde
Langues originales : bengali, hindi, anglais
Réalisation
Miriam Chandy
Miriam Chandy Menacherry (Inde)
Production
Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Aalia Furniturewala
Sheena Matheiken
Claire Aguilar
Alysa Nahmias
Aalia Furniturewala (Inde)
Sheena Matheiken (Inde)
Miriam Chandy Menacherry (Inde)
Anand Ramayya (Inde)
Gary Byungseok Kam (Corée du Sud)
Filament Pictures Pvt Ltd
Scénaristes
Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Triparna Banerjee
Durée
70'’
Statut de production
Terminé
Finalisé en
2022
Impact Statement
The film has a unique approach that can push the audience off the edge of their seat to become active participants in countering the global issue of trafficking and human slavery at their local level. We hope to find an Impact Producer for our film to organise screenings and discussions with key influencers, policy makers and law enforcement officials to have global impact. At the Impact Day Forum we hope to identify collaborators, broadcasters and human rights festivals. To meet NGOs who address similar issues and will become part of our screening network to generate cohesive solutions. Special screenings in rural areas, with vulnerable communities especially the youth in schools, universities and NGOs will be part of gender sensitizing program. Our film aims to engage young boys by holding screenings in conjunction with the stencil art project, MISSING game that puts one in the shoes of a trafficked girl and AR interaction so youngsters are engaged, enlightened and committed to the issue.
As India's anti-trafficking bill awaits approval, a documentary highlighting brave collaborations is shown to youths, at-risk groups, and officials. A survivor's presence at screenings shifts her image from victim to powerful change-maker.
Impact Goals
  1. To make NGO funding available for prevention, prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration, not only rescues.
  2. To improve the justice system which is slow, has a conviction rate of less than 2%, no witness protection programme nor livelihood support for survivors who decide to prosecute.
  3. To reduce the exhaustive paperwork that a survivor must file with the police, medical
    4. representatives and courts, thus decreasing the risk of manipulation and error as it passes through multiple agencies.
  4. To find solutions to the fragile ecosystem that leaves a large populace vulnerable to trafficking after every flood, heightened by porous borders.
  5. To enable viewers of the film to become agents of change to prevent trafficking.
Impact Strategy
  • Funding policies are skewed towards rescues. But what happens after a girl is rescued? Most girls are retrafficked. Funding must support prevention, prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration and work towards collaborative models.
  • Trafficking stories commonly focus on « victims » rather than survivors who are agents of change. We want our protagonist to be hailed a hero, someone who can mentor others who decide to prosecute, for which we wish to find her an income.
  • Our survivor continues to face death threats as she fights for justice in court. We want NGOs and lawmakers to adopt a comprehensive witness protection program with the option of relocation and a new identity if need be.
  • Our film advocates procedures which should be simplified and weighed in on by survivors.
  • We wish to hold screenings at police academies, with border forces, and with lawmakers internationally as part of sensitisation efforts.
  • We want self-sustaining livelihood projects to be implemented in areas with a fragile ecosystem as this would help prevent the trafficking of girls (the Impulse NGO network model is a good example).
  • We feel that raised awareness and education of boys in vulnerable areas would help them evolve into agents of change.
Contact
Contact principal
Miriam Chandy Menacherry (Inde): miriamchandy@yahoo.com
Participants présents aux Impacts Days
Miriam Chandy Menacherry (Inde)
Aalia Furniturewala (Inde)

NGOs / Organisations
UNICEF
Dasra
Akshara Foundation

Broadcasters
TV2 Denmark, EBS Korea

NGOs / Organisations
UNICEF
Dasra
Akshara Foundation

Broadcasters
TV2 Denmark, EBS Korea