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French filmmaker Pascale Bourgaux spent one month travelling in the U.S. in 2007 interviewing women raped in the U.S. military. Her documentary "Rape in the Ranks" has been shown on European TV but not in the U.S.
The documentary was selected for the New York Independent Film Festival and will be shown Monday evening, October 26 at 5:45pm at the City Cinema East, 181 2d Ave, NYC.
Following the showing of "Rape in the Ranks", we will have a panel to discuss rape in the US military at the Telephone Bar and Grill, 149 2nd Ave (212-529-5000).
See http://nyfilmvideo.info/2009-new-york-october-film-schedule-tickets/monday-octob...
Filmmaker Pascale Bourgaux is available for interviews. Her telephone is 212-982-0684 and 646-2638402
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It is hard to find anything about this film on the net. Not even on IMDB. Is that because it's French? Is it because perhaps military operatives have made sure nothing gets publicized? I'm just asking.
Here is a synopsis a reader located (http://current.com/1fv8i4c):
Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within, 28 Minutes
They enlisted in the army, ready to lay down their lives for their country. They were trained to fight off with the enemy without... but not the enemy within. They weren’t raped by Iraqis or Afghanis, but by fellow American soldiers! Tina, Jessica, Suzanne and Stephanie are dual victims. After being raped by a fellow unit member they have been ignored by U.S. military officials. The Pentagon has acknowleged receiving 3,000 reports of sexual assault in 2006 alone. To counter the escalating problem, the Pentagon launched a rape prevention program in 2004. The number of reported sexual assaults has since skyrocketed, but not the number of convictions. Only 2% of accused rapists are ever brought before a court-martial. Very few women have been willing to speak out, but Tina, Jessica, Suzanne and Stephanie decided to stand up and openly talk about their ordeals. Unable to stand the nightmarish daily rapes by her commander in Iraq, 21-year-old Suzanne refused to report back for mission. She was brought before a court-martial. 25-year-old Jessica was raped in the U.S. and Korea, yet still dreams of going back to active service and seeing her attackers brought to justice. Stephanie has come to regret never reporting her own rape and perpetuating the law of silence. 20-year-old Tina, who was raped in Iraq, is no longer around to recount her nightmare. She supposedly “killed herself.” Her mother claims she was murdered. This report tells the story of their pain, revolt, and uphill battle for justice.
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- JonRaymond
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good post, frustrating topic
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- achromatic
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glad someone is shedding light on this
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This culture gets more and more twisted . Maybe it is the same path as ancient Rome .
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the military knew this would be the case when women were allowed into the service. i don't have to tell you what the mind of an 18 year old man who is trained to kill is like. rape and pillage is a constant in war history. rape and murder will continue as long as there is war. reporting about it, however interesting it may be, will do nothing. to stop this the military would have to train non violence and the u.s. is anything but.
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even if it is banned in america... it isn't banned on bittorrent, if thats how we have to watch our damn videos now then so be it
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Banned? Minor obstacle.
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- Atalanda_Cameron
- 30 days ago
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It's not banned, he just can't get a distributor. It doesn't mean anyone made the film illegal, it just means no one thinks the film has the potential to make money. That could theoretically be because distributors might be afraid of lawsuits for distributing the film, but it's the only kind of pressure I could see being used. If that is the case though it means the film may be inaccurate.
One month is an extremely short time to develop an in depth understanding of an issue like this. It is possible it's just that "banned" sounds better than "Lousy film can't get distribution"
We will see though when it gets online. I'd really like to see some sort of knowledgeable review.
Can anyone find a review of the TV show on European media? They review things too. If it's already been shown the quality of the film is known.
best I can find at the moment is a synopsis here
http://www.tvfrance-intl.com/en/annuaire/forms/catalogue/ficheprogramme.php?lang...-
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- bombastinator
- 30 days ago
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Again...
MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR HYPOCRISY
http://www.mtwsfh.blogspot.com/History is written by the winners & in this case the rapers ?
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them." - Mark Hertzgaard
"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." - James Baldwin
"America is the first empire to go from barbarity to decadence without going through civilization" - Oscar Wilde
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- WhiteNoise
- 30 days ago
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Rape and homicide of women is horribly too frequent in the military. The cover-ups are even more disgusting. The function of a military is destruction and history shows that its the militaries of the past that were the ulitimate tools of oppression upon the very families from where the governments lured those looking for opportunity. Government always provide "everything" [propaganda spin-not true adveretising] when we KNOW the government gives NOTHING but a chance too suffer for an typically unjust cause driven by greed and ambition. More Modern Vet have committed suicide than have died in combat. America's new battlefield-the mind's of it's own citizens it is destroying with fear and violence. Dr. King's words are down played as "from the past" because everything he said would happen, in his pre-assasination anniversary speech 04/04/67, if Americans didn't oppose the war then. And here we are again with TWO Vietnam-like catasrophies and a mass media [current too, sorry], political system, education system, "peace" movement- all based on greed in the form of 'desperation for funding'/ratings so they have failed to elevate the people, just mock them with useless images and no dedication to the people's well being. A dedication exemplifiied in the message of Dr.King that NEVER conformed or STOPPED. Passiveness is as deadly to Americans right now as the corruption that has been dessimating the American spirit with constant war, poverty and racial/class divides for centuries. Change doeasn't have to be violent but it has to be NOW.
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- kingfugazi
- 30 days ago
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to bombastinator: your quote...
"blah blah blah...If that is the case though it means the film may be inaccurate."you're probably right, the chances of any woman getting raped in the military especially when they can get away with it is soooo unlikely.
oh yeah and the holocaust didn't happen either.
U.S.A. #1!
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- ladyofwillows
- 30 days ago
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Painful to watch. But the reality of it makes perfect sense.
"War doesn't ennoble men. It turns them into dogs. Poisons the soul."
from The Thin Red Line
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- jasonkluytman
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I would be that there are just as many men being raped in the military, only those probably never go reported, for fear of loss of manhood, embarassment and disgrace.
