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

Fri Mar 7 19:07:57 PST 2014

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On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:06 PM, D Dykeman <ddykeman at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Typo - trans women ...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D Dykeman" <ddykeman at shaw.ca>
> To: wamvan at lists.resist.ca
> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:02:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wamvan] Panel this Friday: Portrayals of Violence Against
> Women in Television and Film
>
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Susan Hughson" <sue at suehughson.com>
> To: wamvan at lists.resist.ca
> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:22:54 AM
> 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:
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>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Emily Yakashiro
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