What Does a Sympathetic Portrayal of Sexual Assault on Screen Look Like?
As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to an end, I’d like to urge viewers and filmmakers to take a long and hard look at how rape is portrayed on screen.

Just when Chile was experiencing the last months of the Popular Unity of President Salvador Allende, Colo Colo - the most popular team in Chilean soccer - faced the 1973 Copa Libertadores de América. This benchmark led by footballers Carlos Caszely, Francisco "Chamaco" Valdés and coach Luis "Zorro" Álamos, not only managed to play the final of this competition against Independiente of Argentina, but also, its brilliant game, dynamics and drive popular turned it into the necessary balm for the fans, at a time when the Chilean political and social situation became extremely acute. Thirty-four years later, the protagonists of Colo Colo 73 relive this Copa Libertadores campaign.
As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to an end, I’d like to urge viewers and filmmakers to take a long and hard look at how rape is portrayed on screen.
Monster's plot is built around Steve Harmon's false accessory to felony murder accusation, and the anxiety and desperation experienced by him during incarceration and the corresponding trial.
After the untimely death of his brother by way of an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the protagonist, ‘81’(Alan Ritchson) unsuccessfully makes several attempts to become an Army Ranger. On his last mission to complete the Ranger selection process he and his squad encounter an otherworldly ‘soldier’.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating the craft. I love seeing more women of colour on this list than before and more newcomers on the scene as well!
Disney’s first Christmas advert, ‘From Our Family to Yours’ teaches us the magic of the holidays.
Netflix’s new comedy drama, Don’t Say Good Luck, is a heartwarming tearjerker as well as a love letter to the transformative power of being a theater kid. Directed by Julia Hart, Don’t Say Good Luck follows Sophie (Sunny Sandler), a theater kid who finally gets the lead role in her school’s production of Waitress - just as she finds out her mom Elizabeth (Melanie Lynskey) is dying of cancer. While the singing is by no means spectacular and Sandler’s acting is stiff, the film is grounded in the moving performance of Lynskey as a mother who wants nothing more than for her daughter to achieve her dreams, even if she can’t be there to see them.