Female Filmmakers Challenging Gender-based Violence: Short Film Screening and Discussion Panel Q&A
Please join us for an evening of powerful, thought-provoking female-led filmmaking at Southampton Solent University’s Digital Cinema.
We are excited to screen four award-winning short films from 16 Days 16 Films finalists that seek to challenge and change how we understand, represent and tell stories about violence against women and girls.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with directors Alice Johannessen, Ciara Kerr, Rosie Morris and Jo Smyth, plus 16 Days 16 Films co-founder Johanna von Fischer.
The four films address and challenge harmful behaviours, attitudes, myths and misperceptions relating to gender-based violence, encountered in private, public, physical and online spaces. They invite us to consider wide-reaching personal, social and cultural impacts and prompt conversations about systemic issues, action and change. Between them the films have been screened in Parliament to an audience of MPs and the public, watched and discussed by more than 200 young people in schools through a collaboration with the charity Safeline, and have a host of awards, nominations and accolades including a BAFTA.
The evening will be hosted by Dr Donna Peberdy, Associate Professor at Southampton Solent University, whose British Academy-funded project “Screening Sexual Violence” brings together short films and filmmakers to launch a new educational resource tackling perceptions of gender-based violence. The resource includes short films by female filmmakers, along with filmmaker interviews, discussion questions and prompts, and guidelines for filmmakers.
Event attendees will have access to an exclusive preview of the Screening Sexual Violence resource in advance of its public launch.
16 Days 16 Films
16 Days 16 Films is a short film initiative and festival presented by founding directors Johanna von Fischer and Ginta Gelvan with the support of UN Women, UK Says No More, Voice of Change, the Geena Davis Institute and the BFI. It is inspired by the UN Womenin ternational campaign 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Established in 2018, 16 Days 16 Films invites female-identifying filmmakers from ten countries to submit short films of up to 25 minutes that “explore, emote, or educate on a form of violence against women”. 16 films are selected each year from hundreds of entries to be screened as part of an online festival. For more details visit www.16days16films.com or follow @16days16films across socials.
Screening Sexual Violence
Screening Sexual Violence is a research project funded by the British Academy that examines screen representations of sexual violence against women and girls and considers how film might be used to improve public understanding of gender-based violence. Follow @screeningsexualviolence on Instagram for project and resource updates or for more information email project lead Dr Donna Peberdy at donna.peberdy@solent.ac.uk
