[Wamvan] Panel this Friday: Portrayals of Violence Against Women in Television and Film

[D Dykeman]

Typo - trans women ... 

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From: "D Dykeman" <ddykeman at shaw.ca>
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Thanks for the information, but I don't go to anything that includes VRR (Vancouver Rape Relief). In fact, I protest these as I believe VRR enacts violence against women in its actual exclusion of 'all' women from its basis of unity, approach and services, especially trans and survival sex workers. VRR is an ideological rather than a reality-based organization and I won't support it in any form ... DD

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From: "Susan Hughson" <sue at suehughson.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wamvan] Panel this Friday: Portrayals of Violence Against	Women in Television and Film


Thanks, 


Will be there. 


Sue 



On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Emily Yakashiro < e.yakashiro at gmail.com > wrote: 



Hi WAM! folks, 


I wanted to personally invite you to a panel I organized for the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. It is focused on portrayals of violence against women in film and television. The panel is happening this Friday, March 7th 1:00-2:30 pm at VIFF's Vancity Theatre downtown, and among the panelists includes Natalie Hill, one of the core organizing members of WAM! Vancouver, and Jarrah Hodge, a WAM! member and founder of Gender Focus. 


The inspiration for this panel came in light of our opening night film--Karen Lam's supernatural thriller Evangeline. Lam is well-known in the genre of horror and thrillers, a Canadian filmmaker, and a woman of colour making intriguing films in a genre typically dominated by men. Evangeline hinges on a brutal experience of violence that our protagonist, the eponymous Evangeline goes through while attending university. 


Whether its Evangeline , The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , or Girls , or Game of Thrones , it seems that every TV and movie focused on women contains a scene of violence against women. The reality of violence against women in Canada is this: 

    * Women are 5 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault than men. 
    * The majority of sexual assaults reported to police are by individuals between the ages 15-24. 
    * In 2007, 58% of sexual assault victims were under the age of 18, with children under the age of 12 making up 25% of this group. Of these young victims, 81% were female. 
    * On average, every six days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. In 2009, 67 women were murdered by a current or former spouse or boyfriend. 
    * boriginal women in Canada are five times more likely than other women of the same age to die as the result of violence. 
    * 1 in 5 Canadian women experience some form of emotional or economic abuse in their intimate relationship. 
    * In almost every province, 9 in 10 victims of spousal-perpetrated criminal harassment are women. 
    * Only in one year, 427,000 women over the age of 15 reported they had been sexually assaulted in Canada.Since only one in ten sexual assaults is reported to the police, the actual number is much higher. 



Statistics sources: here and here 

Should filmmakers and tv producers care about these realities? If so, why--and what crosses the line? What does this mean for the women behind the camera who are writing scripts and directing films containing violence against women? Here to answer all your questions about portrayals of violence against women in film and television is a panel of experts in Vancouver including: 

INTRODUCTIONS 

Irene Lanzinger , BC Federation Women's Rights Committee 

MODERATOR 

Angela MacDougall , Executive Director of Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS) 

PANELISTS 

Jarrah Hodge, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gender Focus 

Hilla Kerner , Collective Member and rape crisis worker of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter 

Arlana Green , Victim Services Medical Support Worker and a Rape Crisis Counsellor at Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Rape Crisis Centre and Feminist Activist 

Natalie Hill, core organizing member of Women, Action, and the Media Vancouver Chapter (WAM!) 

Don’t miss out on what promises to be an exciting, informative, and engaging panel on a topic which is a first for the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. This panel is free and open to the public. It will be taking place Friday, March 7th from 1:00-2:30 pm at VIFF’s Vancity Theatre , with one hour for the panelists’ discussion and a half hour of questions from attendees. 






Please note: we are looking to discuss film and television specifically and not other subsets of media (i.e., evening news reports, newspapers, video games, music, music videos, or pornography). This is because the mandate and mission of Women in Film and Television is just that--focused on film and television. 

For more information please email Emily at wiftvoffice(at) gmail.com 


Thank-you, and hope to see you all there! 




Emily 


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