Breaking Silence

If you'll be in Lincoln this weekend, consider attending the screening of the award-winning documentary The Greatest Silence:  Rape in the Congo, with a discussion led afterward by a local psychologist who does trauma work with survivors.  Filmmaker Lisa Jackson, a survivor of gang rape herself, has won multiple awards for her documentaries over the past 30 years. 

This particular film is the one that led the UN in 2008 to classify rape as a weapon of war.

It screens at the Ross, which is hosting the film festival Women Make Movies:  Women Changing the World.  It begins today and runs through March 11, and if you're a student or a senior, you can get a pass to all of the films for $15.  A full-price pass costs $25 and lets you into all 13 astonishing, award-winning movies from around the world. 

Here's the info on Saturday's screening and talk:

Film Discussion:
THE GREATEST SILENCE
with speaker Megan Watson, PhD, LMHP

Saturday, Feb. 27 - Film begins at 1:00
Discussion following film (approx. 2:20 p.m.)

Admission to the discussion is free and open to the public. Admission  
to THE GREATEST SILENCE is at regular Ross prices.

Megan Watson is a psychologist in private practice who works with  
treating immigrants, refugees, and torture survivors. Watson does  
trauma work and focuses on culturally competent, holistic treatment.

Before its closure, Watson spent three years working at the FIRST  
Project, a torture treatment center in Lincoln.

THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO

Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and the  
inspiration for a 2008 U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of  
war, this extraordinary film, shot in the war zones of the Democratic  
Republic of Congo (DRC), shatters the silence that surrounds the use  
of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict.