“6 Women: Slaves and Leaders of Arab Spring”Video-documentary

The Concept North and South Mediterranean are connected through flows of women, victims of human trafficking and forced slavery. Women capacities of contributing economically to their communities crash like waves on the rocks facing European continent. Acknowledgment of women’s role in their own societies fades like a mirage in Northern African desert.

In South Mediterranean, women are lock in a challenging environment. They are captured in a schizophrenic transition with no clear direction, where elements of secularism and contemporaneity are creating a brand new social patchwork.

Despite all that, women are the most powerful engine of social, economic and cultural change in the Arab Spring scenario.

Their daily struggle for autonomy and self-empowerment is an act of rebellion to traditional societies that predominantly confines theirs roles and activities to the domestic sphere. Women are now leading as contemporary entrepreneurs; they generate social and economic development, drive political processes and are changing secular cultural stereotypes.

It is with the strength and courage of their examples and stories that southern Mediterranean women are inspiring new generations, opening new opportunities, shaping a new society.

The ProjectThe project ”6 Women: Slaves and Leaders of Arab Spring” is a powerful and impacting social documentary casting a light on contemporary phenomena changing our world.

The project will capture and present to the public contrasting trends and dynamics of turbulences blowing in the region.

It will gather 3 representative human stories of women affected by physical, social and political violence to show and understand how modern slavery is affecting the Mediterranean and Northern African Region.

At the same the documentary will mix and contrast the stories of modern slaves with other 3 remarkable stories of successful women leading the change in their countries. These personal stories will talk about the ideas, challenges and social conditions women had to overcome to become empowered leaders of their economic, social and political future.

The 6 stories will come from 6 different nations in the Mediterranean and North African Region to highlight countries’ specificities but will eventually unite and form an exceptional human patchwork addressing common trends and developments for the whole region.

The 6 women will ultimately meet to share their lives and experiences, creating also a strong emotional impact in terms of mutual solidarity, reflection and inspiration for themselves and their societies.

The ProducerVision Films is a Global Communication Solution provider leader in Video Production and award winning Social Documentaries.

Vision Films is looking for partners in international organisations, national and local authorities, non governmental organisations and civil societies organisations interested in participating in the Project “6 Women: Slaves and Leaders of Arab Spring”.

Vision Films has worked and produced documentaries for:

UNDP, UN Women, the European Commission, the Interamerican Development Bank, the Red Cross, the International Center for Transitional Justice, Spanish Government, Spanish International Cooperation Agency, the Folke Bernardotte Academy, the Catalonian Government, BBVA, Adidas, Redbull, Ericsson, Epson, Grünenthal, Gas Natural Fenosa, Spanish TV.

Contacts:Vision Films - www.visionfilms.org +34 647.23.54.26 (Mobile) +34 93.490.22.37 (Office Barcelona, Spain)