Help Launch UNMUTED Impact Campaign on Gender-Based Violence

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Who We Are:

We are Without Exception Films, a women-led independent production company based in Los Angeles, CA. Our projects include docuseries and full-length documentaries that we develop end-to-end both in-house and through dynamic partnerships with other filmmakers.

Our now completed three-part docuseries, UNMUTED, aims to lift the veil on gender-based violence. We are extremely proud that UNMUTED was:

Selected by the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) as a Commitment to Actions (CTA) focused on Women & Girls Equity. A CTA “is a positive and effective social impact project that is new, specific, and measurable.”
Selected by the 2025 Doc.London Documentary Film Festival for screening (more info here)
Nominated by the 2025 Ray of Light Awards for screening

And we need YOUR HELP to implement and sustain a comprehensive impact campaign that further enlarges the impact and inspires actions for people globally. See more details about our ask below.

UNMUTED Summary:

1 in 3 women globally will experience gender-based violence in their lifetime.

A Realscreen MIPTV Pick, UNMUTED follows eight women from across the globe through their journeys of reclaiming their agency and rebuilding their lives against seemingly insurmountable odds.

With interviews led by Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asian), Marie Avgeropoulos (The 100), and Torrey DeVitto (Chicago Med), audiences will learn about the complex socio-cultural factors that lead to people becoming victims of gender based violence, including Child Marriage, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, and Acid Attacks - along with the non-traditional solutions that individuals and non-government organizations (NGOs) are using to protect women and girls.

Here's what we need your help with:

We are working with experienced impact producing agency Picture Motion to launch the first stage of our UNMUTED impact campaign, while still fundraising to further sustain the impact campaign. You can read more about our campaign strategy here.

If you are interested in hosting a private screening of UNMUTED for your community, please fill out this interest form and our team will be in touch with you!

The first stage, or the first six months, of our multilateral impact campaign includes:

Reaching communities and ‘everyday advocates,’ through an international non-theatrical grassroots tour of 30+ educational screenings of UNMUTED with toolkits to provide audiences with actionable steps to champion women and girls’ agency, choice, safety and freedom in their communities and beyond
Engaging policy-makers through 3 special events/workshops hosted by the series-makers to drive high-level policy improvements
An integrated social media campaign to amplify and unify this work on the ground.

To support and sustain the impact campaign, we are fundraising for $100,000.

Here's how the $100,000 will be spent:

$47,500 on salaries of campaign manager and logistical staff
$41,000 on screening tour logistics (venues, flights etc.)
$5,500 on campaign materials creation (websites, education guides, printing, graphic assets etc.)
$6,000 on overheads (insurance, legal, accounting etc.)

If you would like to donate more than $5,000 and would like to receive a tax-deductible receipt for your donation, please contact us through the "Contact" button below. We will connect you to our fiscal sponsor for next steps.

Thank you!