Talking about it

"I wanted the film to be uplifting and empowering and not a depressing experience for the audience." - Cathy Henkel, filmmaker.

"Eighty-five percent of relationships fail after a rape and I think it’s because people will very often say, 'Don’t talk about it because it hurts you'. In fact, we need to talk about it." - Charlene Smith, journalist and survivor of sexual assault.

Cathy wanted the film to be uplifting and empowering, and not a depressing experience for the audience. Along the way, she discovered that making the film also helped people heal - because they had a forum through which they could talk about the trauma brought about by sexual assault.

Michael, who reluctantly agreed to participate in the film in the early days, says afterwards: "The final product has come out [and] the reaction from our mother - to see the turnaround from that absolutely depressed person sitting there, it’s heartbreaking to see that, to see someone now smiling, socialising with people, getting up, doing things, that is definitely - it’s made this all so worthwhile."

But you don't have to be a filmmaker to achieve the same thing.

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