Written by:
Erin Raber
Video Justice
"I use video to advocate an end to violence against women," explains video activist and artist Grace Poore. Her current project, The Children We Sacrifice, is a video documentary that focuses on the prevention of incestuous sexual abuse of female children in South Asian communities.
"I grew up in a violent home," says Poore. "I had firsthand knowledge of what it was like to live under the tyranny of a violent parent." It was this personal experience that motivated Poore to volunteer at a battered women's shelter in 1985, and, in 1987, become a crisis advocate, editor and community educator for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
After nine years of advocacy work, Poore wanted to produce better resources for other advocates. In 1989, she started an all-women video production team, Shakti Productions, to document struggles by women and girls to end violence in their lives. Her recently-completed documentary, Voices Heard Sisters Unseen (distributed by Women Make Movies), reexamines domestic violence from the perspective of different groups of women. She has presented workshops with this video in Canada, Trinidad
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