Through resilience and reliance
Qu’elles ne partent pas seules
Producer - writer - director
a bilingual documentary addressing domestic violence in France’s COVID-19 lockdown
Domestic violence made headlines in France during the COVID-19 pandemic and its lockdowns. Now that the public is listening, we mustn’t let go. Through resilience and reliance reviews and assesses the existing support structures for victims of domestic violence to find new solutions and move forward through interviews with professionals who made accompanying victims their life’s work.
OUR MISSION
As neighbors, friends, and family of victims of domestic violence, we feel the need and the desire to help them, but we have not been trained to offer the right support. While some information on relevant procedures for victims is available, these steps are complex and difficult to access. Numerous analytical documents, laden with statistics, expose this problem, but they are fastidious and too specialized for wider audiences. Furthermore, they do not take into account the personal challenges professionals face in accompanying victims.
In fact, the different support structures and their members face challenges that slow down and minimize their support for vulnerable victims of domestic violence today. In this documentary, we gather interviews from various professionals to give them a united voice, unpack the hurdles they face, and learn how we can help them in their missions of support.
Meet our interviewees
Our audience can rely on a panel of over twenty experts in various fields.
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Members of law enforcement and emergency care share their perspective on the systems in place for victims. Among them are Saint Germain-en-Laye firefighters and chief warrant officer Dubois.
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Members of government-led agencies with experience in supporting victims of domestic violence: Annaïck Morvan (Regional delegate for women’s rights and equality between women and men), Marie-Hélène Aubert (mayor of Jouy-en-Josas), and Marta de Cidrac (Yvelines senator).
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Non-profit members and employees, including Jonathan Portier (director of France Victime 78), Léa Arguel (Coordinator of the Union Régionale Solidarité Femmes IDF), Lucile Dupuy (project leader and development leader at HandsAway), Aurélie Garnier-Brun (development leader at En Avant Toute(s)), and Sarah McGrath (president of Women For Women France).
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All specializing in domestic violence, including Michele De Kerckhove (lawyer and founder of France Victime 78).
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Specialized psychologists, including Jill Bourdais (American psychologist in Paris) and Dr Damiani (psychologist and director of Paris Aide aux Victimes) who are experienced in communicating with and supporting victims.