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A film, ‘Deafening Silence’ that showcases the darkish space of the totally different shades of gender-based violence has hit the cinemas.
The film produced by Emem Isong and directed by Biodun Stephens was championed and initiated by Highlight Initiative and partnered by the United Nations Improvement Program
(UNDP) and European Union (EU).
‘Deafening Silence’ film which hit cinemas on Friday, June 7, 2024, has an important forged of Toni Tones, Chidi Mokeme, Bimbo Akintola, Kate Henshaw, Daniel Etim-Effiong, Femi Jacobs and others.
The film birthed by the Highlight Initiative is an progressive output beneath the UNDP’s transformative gender morm result-chain intervention in Nigeria.
Talking on the premiere,
Ndubisi Onyinye of the UNDP recommended the forged and crew and famous that Gender-based violence was a difficulty that wanted to be tackled in Nigeria as “Girls and ladies are gender champions as a result of we’re all represented by girls. This venture is near my coronary heart, sadly my father handed two weeks in the past. As I used to be getting ready for this premiere, I misplaced my dad. And one factor that strikes me is that he was the primary gender champion I met in life.
“On behalf of the UNDP household and your entire UN household, it’s a profound honour to current to the general public ‘Deafening Silence’ and this isn’t only a film however a motion in the direction of gender equality and the eradication of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria and past” says Onyinye.
Mr Rogers of Europe Union famous that the venture was efficiently crafted and made actual by partnerships. “The European Union and the United Nations got here collectively to fight all types of violence towards girls and ladies. Within the final 5 years, there has by no means been an funding just like the joint venture in England,” he stated.