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The Girls of Meru
20181 h 27 min 59 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Andrea Dorfman
Production: Annette Clarke
Script: Andrea Dorfman
Alice was 11 when she was raped on her way to school. The Kenyan police would only make an arrest if Alice’s stepmother paid them first, so her perpetrator went free.
In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before age 18, yet police investigations are the exception. But 160 girls, including Alice, banded together with a multinational legal team led by Canadian lawyer Fiona Sampson and Kenyan social worker Mercy Chidi Baidoo and created legal history.
In The Girls of Meru, acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman tells the troubling yet uplifting story of these children and their brave steps towards meaningful equality for girls worldwide.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Africa
- Women > Developing CountriesViolence Against Women
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Incest and Sexual Abuse
- Law and Crime > Violence Against Women
- Social Issues > Violence Against Women
Credits
- writer
- Andrea Dorfman
- director
- Andrea Dorfman
- editor
- Angela Baker
- creative consultant
- Judy Kibinge
- director of photography
- Andrea Dorfman
- animation
- Andrea Dorfman
- original music
- Charles Austin
- sound edit
- Mélanie Gauthier
- sound design
- Mélanie Gauthier
- producer
- Annette Clarke
- sound recordist
- Ednah Bonareri
- Mike Filippov
- Daniel Hewett
- David Jalenga
- Danni Karania
- additional cinematography
- Stanislaw Barua
- Tim Mwaura
- Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann
- Iris Ng
- Joan Poggio
- John Price
- Annalet Steenkamp
- location manager
- Debra Njeri Ngeru
- production manager
- Geeta Sondhi
- Winnie Muthoni Kamau
- Emily Wanja
- production assistant
- Lisa Njeri Kihagi
- Anna MacLean
- Jackie Imali
- narrator
- Andrea Dorfman
- foley
- Alexis Farand
- foley recording
- Geoff Mitchell
- narration recording
- Geoff Mitchell
- assistant dialogue editor
- Sandy Pinteus
- musician
- Norm Adams
- Charles Austin
- Jordan Murphy
- Joshua Van Tassel
- title design
- Mélanie Bouchard
- Jacques Bertrand Simard
- transcription
- Lori Heath
- Erin Oakes
- Carol Pasten
- Robin Spittal
- production supervisor
- Roz Power
- technical coordinator
- Jean-François Laprise
- Daniel Lord
- Chris MacIntosh
- assistant editor
- Chris MacIntosh
- Cheryl Murgatroyd
- David Mullins
- Sandi Rankaduwa
- online editor
- Denis Pilon
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- marketing manager
- Melissa Wheeler
- Amanda Laukys
- publicist
- Pat Dillon
- production coordinator
- Mylène Augustin
- Christine Williams
- legal counsel
- Dominique Aubry
- studio administrator
- Camila Blos
- Leslie Anne Poyntz
- executive producer
- Annette Clarke
- executive director
- Michelle van Beusekom