“It’s a Womans World” is a short documentary, exploring the controversial issue of domestic violence, depicting the story of a 16 year old girl: Amrit Birk who had also been abused by her current boyfriend.
The opening of the documentary is a montage sequence using images of victims of domestic violence, instantly grabbing the attention of the audience. The documentary follows Amrit, which is specifically done through talking to the camera as a diary entry, also enabling the audience to identify with the character, showing the harsh reality of domestic violence.
The documentary aims to create a moral at the end, and hopes to encourage other victims to speak up, we explored the issues of domestic violence in “It’s a Womans World, while still challenging the stereotypes of woman. We ensured to show factual information by including shocking statistics such as “One in four women are abused.”
Interesting Facts:
While filming Amrit when she’s going to a “rave” we soon discovered Basrans inability to drive, as she couldn’t even move the car, stupid cow has had how many lessons?! Yeah nice one!
Also the infamous scene of Amrits talking head: it was just hilarious, and I actually couldn’t keep my laughter in, and had to hide under the bed to stop myself from laughing.
Pooja x
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