About the work
Alternative title:
Abortion in the Dominican Republic
Year:
2016
Duration:
25m
Director:
Helena Martínez de Aspe
Countries:
Dominican Republic, United Kingdom
Producer:
Helena Martínez de Aspe
Synopsis:
For the first time, a documentary gives a general and different view of the abortion in one of the few countries in the world where the practice is completely illegal, the Dominican Republic.
Doctors, lawyers, women’s organizations as well as representatives of the Catholic and Evangelical Church speak openly about the social situation and Dominican politics.
With a close and direct pitch, highlighting the contrast between the beauty of the country and the rawness of the subject, the documentary focuses on several personal stories: a teenager that used abortion pills, a herbs seller that explains how to make a traditional abortifacient tea and a mother who tells how her daughter, underage and pregnant, died in a hospital after the doctors refused to treat her leukaemia.
Abortion is a taboo subject in most of the world. And when religion, patriarchal society, lack of sex education and one of the strictest laws on the subject are combined, the result is a highly-maternal mortality.
The documentary plumbs the different aspects of the Dominican reality, their physical implications and the country’s political, legal, social and religious dimensions.
Color:
Yes
Sound:
Yes
Copyright info provided by
Helena Martínez de Aspe
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Title A light in the dark
Alternative title: Abortion in the Dominican Republic
Year: 2016
Duration: 25m
Director: Helena Martínez de Aspe
Countries: República Dominicana, United Kingdom
Producer: Helena Martínez de Aspe
Synopsis: For the first time, a documentary gives a general and different view of the abortion in one of the few countries in the world where the practice is completely illegal, the Dominican Republic.
Doctors, lawyers, women’s organizations as well as representatives of the Catholic and Evangelical Church speak openly about the social situation and Dominican politics.
With a close and direct pitch, highlighting the contrast between the beauty of the country and the rawness of the subject, the documentary focuses on several personal stories: a teenager that used abortion pills, a herbs seller that explains how to make a traditional abortifacient tea and a mother who tells how her daughter, underage and pregnant, died in a hospital after the doctors refused to treat her leukaemia.
Abortion is a taboo subject in most of the world. And when religion, patriarchal society, lack of sex education and one of the strictest laws on the subject are combined, the result is a highly-maternal mortality.
The documentary plumbs the different aspects of the Dominican reality, their physical implications and the country’s political, legal, social and religious dimensions.
Color: Yes
Sound: Yes
Work type Short Film
Tags women rights, dominican republic, pills, mother mortality, women, pregnancy, abortion
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Entry date Mar 2, 2017, 10:12 AM UTC
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
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