Girls in state care - hear their experiences
STORIES THAT NEED TO BE HEARD
We have heard boys stories about being in state care - but who is listening to the girls?
Help me create a platform for them to share their experiences, and raise awareness for organisations that are helping to support these girls and instigate change.
'Complex factors lead to women and girls’ entering and returning to prison. Criminalisation is usually the outcome of repeated and intergenerational experiences of violence, poverty, homelessness, child removal and unemployment, resulting in complex health issues and substance use. First Nations women and girls are massively over-represented in prison due to the racism at the foundation of systems of social control.' (Sisters Inside Website)
WHAT'S THE MONEY FOR?
Please feel free to contact gabrielle directly on 0452416074 to discuss support / sponsorship.
1) Pre Production
- hardrive to edit film on and work on remotely on. Location hire fees for interviews, crew costs to book audio and lighting guys in for the shshoots = $2000
2) Production
- Lightings and on set costs cush as catoring, wardrobe, OHS, travel to locations, $1500
- Admin costs, staff, ink, paper, and on set clipboards and printing + planners and whiteboard, time spent scheudling and liasing with talent etc $500
4) Post-production
- Editing, colour grading and audio mixing = $6000
This is the minimum I need to get started, if this is all I receive I can ask for people to donate time and get the filming done.
⭐️ For all of you who are kind enough to donate, you will be invited to a private 'sponsors only' screening and listed and thanked as a financial supporters in the film credits.
$1000+ donations can be listed as producers.
$5000+ will be listed as executive producers.
THE KEY CREATIVES
Gabrielle Reiher at a project called 'Arrival' that she created with Safari Global, a portrait series of people arriving in Melbourne who all felt the same feeling of elation when they embraced their loved ones.. celebrating our similarities and humanity. This exhibition was presented at Melbourne Airport.
Listen Here: https://safari.global/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabrielle-Reiher-w.-Jon-Faine-23-5-19.mp3
ISSUE IN THE MEDIA
Four Corners "Australia's Shame" re boys in the system.
Watch here: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/australias-shame-promo/7649462
Amnesty International has done a study on the current situation and labelled it 'Australia's National Disgrace' among other stats in their article they point out,
“It’s particularly alarming that of those in detention, 63% were unsentenced,”
https://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-kids-in-prison-australias-national-disgrace/
We all know the power of social media and mainstream media can affect change. We need to bring more awareness to this issue now, so we as a nation can put pressure on the government to change laws that need to change to protect our kids.
Sisters Inside have a solid history of effecting legal change with movements like #freeher - where they raised over $1,000,000.000 to pay for First Nations women's fines that would avoid them being imprisoned.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/viral-campaign-to-free-jailed-indigenous-women-reaches-230-000
