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updated 12/17/2001
| young asianz rising! breaking down violence against women | |
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"In order to prevent domestic violence we need to prevent all forms of violence against women...we wanted to connect all the issues together to show how they interrelate."
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young asianz rising! offers a fresh, innovative take on how teens today make sense of the many forms of violence they encounter in relationships with friends, family and dating partners. In creating the film, nine young men and women, all of Asian or Pacific Islander descent, took on the roles of both filmmaker and subject--working in front of and behind the cameras--to explore and document their perspectives on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual harassment and sexual assault, particularly within their own Asian and Pacific Islander communities. The video project grew out of the group's commitment to take action to challenge the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that contribute to violence against women and girls. The crew's documentary footage includes moving accounts of teens' experience of violence: the terror and helplessness of growing up in a family in which parents' arguments explode into physical assaults and beatings, the shock and betrayal of gay and lesbian teens subjected to abuse by dating partners. Young women explain how incidents of harassment contribute to girls' fears of being sexually assaulted. Roving, hand-held camera shots of teens on the streets, in their homes, and in the studio capture the sense of exposed vulnerability expressed in interview segments and give the film a spontaneous, up-to-the minute feel. The video suggests that the young film crew's search for answers may itself be a part of the solution to the epidemic of violence erupting in communities across the country. This film is recommended for teen and adult members of the Asian/Pacific Islander communities who are working to prevent youth violence as well as allies from other communities interested in supporting their efforts. © 1999,
28 minutes. Available from the Asian Domestic Violence Prevention
Collaborative (a collaborative project of Narika and Nihonmachi
Legal Outreach) by contacting: |
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