100 girls in a white box room with enormous ceilings allowed Brittany Bland, MFA Projection Designer, Yale, with Barb Korein’s help to create effects on the girls and in the space using the images of the kidnapped girls on their bodies and creating powerful resulting shadows.
I want the film to tell the story of the kidnapping; that violence against women and children is a global phenomenon with up to 1 billion children between the ages of 2-17 experiencing violence in the past year; and that as a teacher of young children, the girls felt like my own students, but it is my own first hand experiences with trauma and violence that finally I understood was the source of my empathy for the girls.
