General information

Call No.:

392-1-1:5/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-1-1 Video Recordings of WITNESS: Activist films of Witness: Documentary films and promotional videos of Witness

Located at

DVD-ROM #5 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-1-1_005

Date of production

2001

Date

2001

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

45 min.

Notes

WITNESS / Oxygen Media LLC/ Binta Mansaray

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

The film was titled, produced and directed for WITNESS and Oxygen by academy award nominee Lilibet Foster with WITNESS partner, Binta Mansaray. It documents the brutal use of rape as a weapon of war in Sierra Leone. The story is told through the eyes the survivors - women and girls, as well as the child soldiers and perpetrators. It will support the efforts of our partners in Sierra Leone to increase the funding to provide psycho-social support and health care to the estimated 500,000 survivors of rape in the country.

Context

Associated Names

Foster, Lilibet (Director, Producer)

WITNESS (Producer)