WUNRN
CYBERFEMINISTS TAKE RISKS IN
CONNECTIONS & ACTIVISM - FILM - CUBA, CHINA, IRAN
Women Make Movies
FILM TRAILER SEGMENT:
Forbidden
Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer
A
film by Barbara
Miller
Switzerland,
2012, 96 minutes, Color, DVD, Subtitled
Their
voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But world-famous bloggers Yoani
Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are unafraid of their dictatorial
regimes. These fearless women represent a new, networked generation of modern
rebels. In Cuba, China and Iran their blogs shake the foundations of the state
information monopoly, putting them at great risk.
This film accompanies these brave young cyberfeminists on perilous journeys.
Eyewitness reports and clandestine footage show Sánchez's brutal beating by
Cuban police for criticizing her country's regime; Chinese human rights
activist Jinyan under house arrest for four years; and Iranian journalist and
women's advocate Seifi forced into exile, where she blogs under a pseudonym.
Tracing each woman's use of social media to denounce and combat violations of
human rights and free speech in her home country, FORBIDDEN VOICES attests to
the Internet's potential for building international awareness and political
pressure.
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