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The Truth About Silence

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The Truth About Silence is a real life story about a sexual assault victim and attests to the tragedy that can arise from staying silent. One in five girls will be sexually assaulted before the age of 18, yet a shocking 88 percent of these cases go unreported. The documentary captures the horrifying emotions caused by sexual assault and inspires victims to get help. The Truth About Silence was accepted into the 2007 Artivist Film Festival, which took place at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. Additionally, the film was presented as part of the “Best of Artivist¨ world tour in Lisbon, Portugal, and London, U.K. In 2008, the documentary was ranked 5th on the Audience Choice shortlist and made the overall top 10 documentaries in the Babelgum Online Film Festival.

03:15

Petals of Hope
Petals of Hope is a PSA showing the sufferings of women around the world. The film uses a red rose with petals falling to symbolize how the pain women experience has made them lose their beauty, hope, and dreams.

49:26

China’s Sexual Revolution
CHINA'S' SEXUAL REVOLUTION is the world's first glimpse into this forbidden new China, often using secret cameras. It's a surprising portrait of the Chinese today: the new free love generation that's left their parents in shock; the booming sex industry that's creating an HIV crisis; the new generation of career women and feminists that suddenly wants it all - while millions of men feel left out.

China's sexual libido was bottled up for 50 years, but now its bursting loose, with dramatic ramifications on marriage, personal freedom and the government itself.
Will the Sexual revolution succeed where the Tiananmen one failed?

03:22

Don't Say A Word
Recovering Memories. A visual interpretation of one of the most requested songs from Cici Porter's Journey to Wholeness Project – the healing process that was instrumental in the artist-singer-songwriter's personal recovery from child sexual abuse.
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09:33

Two Months Ago
Jo wakes up in a back alley one morning. Some hazy images flash in her head but she has no definitive idea about what happened the previous night. A couple months later she finds out she is pregnant and while trying to deal with her new situation she finds out what actually happened to her that night.
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11:36

INNUENDO
A young mother starts a desperate search to find out why her seven year old daughter suddenly doesn't speak anymore

01:11:54

Portrait of a Naked Lady Dancer
Filmmaker Deborah Rowe breaks the surface with four talented strippers in Washington, D.C. Zoe, Jessica, April and Ginger give a generous and very human insight into what it is to be a naked lady dancer.

02:55

The Dune Runner
"I dream and see pictures and get up and make the pictures in the sand." -Vuyisile Funda. Vuyisile Funda lives in the village of Hamburg in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. He has been a watchman for most of his life, but a beating left him unable to work. He now lives off a disability grant. Vuyisile calls himself “Gaba”, which in Xhosa means “the prophet”. Gaba believes he receives visitations from God in the early mornings. God instructs him not to hurt anyone, and sometimes tells him to go to the dunes along the edge of the sea and run patterns in the sand until his problems are resolved. So, in the early hours of morning he runs intricate patterns over the sand dunes in the area; the patterns are seldom seen by anyone as they fade soon after dawn. Gaba says that this pattern-making is unconscious, guided by God and that he runs on the dunes as a prayer for the world and to draw attention to the beauty of the natural world. Often, he runs in a red skirt to show his solidarity with women.

08:55

WAYout
Music in Sierra Leone. After 11 years of conflict, Sierra Leone is the 2nd poorest country in the world and music is playing a major part in rebuilding the country. During the war it was seen as the only voice of opposition; now it gives voice to the disengaged and hope to young people for the future

23:20

Fallout
Marissa, a senior, is acting and dressing strange and her friends Teni and Sara don’t understand why. Simone sits in the principal’s office shocked to learn that she may not pass her junior year. Ray is being harassed by his former friends Terrence and Sam in the hallway and Miguel and his girlfriend Leah are fighting yet again, this time about whether he should play football this year. Once these students file into class, they discover they have a special guest speaker who has come to talk to them about dating violence. As Marissa, Simone, Ray, and Miguel listen, they think back to events at the party and must come to face to face with the secrets they’ve been trying to hide. Fallout explores the growing problem of dating violence among teens and its affect not only on the victims, but also their friends and families. Using a mix of narrative accounts and candid interviews with real-life teens, this gritty docudrama follows a group of students as they experience physical, sexual, and psychological violence and its aftermath.

34:39

Greater - Defeating AIDS
Winner of the Documentary Award in the first Babelgum Online Film Festival. The defeat of AIDS in the Naguru and Kireka slums of Kampala (Uganda). This is billed as a non-documentary and, watching the way it pulls together the different stories of Ugandan women who are HIV positive, we soon realise that we’re seeing life there in a way we might not in the mainstream.

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