Cause & Affect: The Stories Women Tell

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Social Action Campaign

Build awareness around the challenges stemming

from

gender inequality that afflict women around the world and build a

constituency

advocating for change and solutions

Clients and Partners

Linda Harrar Productions and the David and Lucile

Packard

Foundation

Linda Harrar Productions is headed by Linda Harrar, an independent executive

producer, director and writer specializing in documentaries on global health, human

rights and the environment. Through collaborations with several leading

professionals and experts, Linda Harrar Productions is now developing a

documentary entitled

The Stories Women Tell

, a feature length film which will share

the stories and challenges of women around the world with a focus on the effects of

gender inequality:

the

limitation on female access to health, education and economic

opportunities.

The Stories Women Tell

, which will be distributed through both commercial and

educational outlets, strives to illuminate the world’s progress in achieving targeted

improvements in women’s health, human rights and gender equity. Currently in pre-

production, this film will showcase a dozen “story vignettes,” each directed by a

different female director, that share distinct perspectives and issues such as child

marriage, sexual violence, human rights, teen pregnancy and HIV/AIDS. Together,

these pieces will share a cohesive narrative on the life-threatening situations that are

recurring in the developing world, and the necessity for policy change to rectify these

injustices.

Cause & Affect delivered the strategic plan for a social action campaign in

July 2009 to be launched in parallel with the release of the documentary.