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When Women Kill
199447 min 58 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Barbara Doran
Production: Barbara DoranAnnette ClarkeSigne JohanssonJerry McIntoshGinny Stikeman
Co-produced by Morag Productions Inc. and the NFB in association with CBC Newsworld and with the financial assistance of the Secretary of State, Women's Program and the Société générale des industries culturelles - Québec.
What would make an ordinary woman kill her husband? This powerful documentary is about three battered women who, after years of violence, kill their abusers. These women killed when they felt they had no other options: the police and the courts did not protect them, and society failed to take them seriously. When Women Kill challenges the legal system to confront the systemic and widespread violence that men inflict daily on the home front.
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Subject categories
- Families > Family ViolenceViolence Against Women
- Law and Crime > MurderViolence Against WomenWomen and the Legal System
- Women > Violence Against Women
Credits
- director
- Barbara Doran
- producer
- Barbara Doran
- Annette Clarke
- Signe Johansson
- Jerry McIntosh
- executive producer
- Ginny Stikeman
- cinematography
- Kent Nason
- sound
- Diane Carrière
- editing
- Hannele Halm
- sound editing
- Antonia McGrath
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- Serge Boivin
- music
- Jeff Johnston
Awards
- Medal - Category: Social Issues / Current Events CategoryInternational Competition