In order to talk about this sensitive topic carefully, the Shama team crafted five different messages about sexual violence. We included accurate referral information, accurate legal information and examples developed from our practice and knowledge of sexual violence in culturally specific situations.
We sought advice about these messages from other experts in the sexual violence field, and from our cultural advisory group.
Then we partnered with Arezou Zalipour, film practitioner and researcher at AUT, who advised us on the technical and practical aspects of creating these videos – we wanted long conversations but the videos needed to be talking head, short and punchy.
Finally, we took these messages to ethnic communities in New Zealand and asked who would like to create a video sharing one of these messages with their own community?
The response we got was huge. Let’s Talk is beginning by releasing the first 10 videos, with more on the way. We will be talking about sexual violence in more than twenty languages, across the five topic areas.