The Girls of Meru

Dorfman, Andrea, (film director.). Clarke, Annette, (film producer.). Clarke, Annette, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Alice was 11 when she was raped on her way to school. The Kenyan police would only make an arrest if Alice's stepmother paid them first, so her perpetrator went free. In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before age 18, yet police investigations are the exception. But 160 girls, including Alice, banded together with a multinational legal team led by Canadian lawyer Fiona Sampson and Kenyan social worker Mercy Chidi Baidoo and created legal history. In The Girls of Meru, acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman tells the troubling yet uplifting story of these children and their brave steps towards meaningful equality for girls worldwide.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (87 min., 59 sec.) : sound
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2017.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	Agency - English program:.Quebec & Atlantic Studio.
Restrictions on Access Note:	No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Writer, Andrea Dorfman ; director, Andrea Dorfman ; editor, Angela Baker ; director of photography, Andrea Dorfman ; animation, Andrea Dorfman ; original music, Charles Austin ; sound edit, Mélanie Gauthier ; sound design, Mélanie Gauthier ; producer, Annette Clarke ; sound recordist, Ednah Bonareri, Mike Filippov, Daniel Hewett, David Jalenga, Danni Karania ; foley, Alexis Farand ; re-recording, Serge Boivin ; executive producer, Annette Clarke.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Andrea Dorfman.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 2018.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-04-05).