Film “Deafening Silence” highlights gender-based violence

A film, “Deafening Silence,” which highlights the dark areas of different shades of gender-based violence, has been released in theaters.

The film produced by Emem Isong and directed by Biodun Stephens was supported and initiated by Spotlight Initiative and in partnership with the United Nations Development Program.

(UNDP) and European Union (EU).

The movie “Deafening Silence”, which will be released in theaters on Friday, June 7, 2024, has an excellent cast including Toni Tones, Chidi Mokeme, Bimbo Akintola, Kate Henshaw, Daniel Etim-Effiong, Femi Jacobs and others.

The Spotlight Initiative film is an innovative production as part of UNDP’s transformative Gender Results Chain intervention in Nigeria.

Speaking at the premiere,

Ndubisi Onyinye of UNDP congratulated the cast and crew and noted that gender-based violence was an issue that needed to be addressed in Nigeria because “women and girls are gender champions because we are all represented by women. This project is close to my heart, unfortunately my father died two weeks ago. While I was preparing for this premiere, I lost my father. And one thing that strikes me is that he was the first champion of his kind that I met in life.

“On behalf of the UNDP family and the entire United Nations family, it is a profound honor to present to the public “Deafening Silence” and it is not just a film but a movement towards gender equality and the eradication of sexual and gender-based violence around the world. Nigeria and beyond,” says Onyinye.

Mr. Rogers of the European Union noted that the project had been successfully developed and brought to fruition through partnerships. “The European Union and the United Nations have united to fight all forms of violence against women and girls. In the last five years there has never been an investment like the Joint Project in England,” he said.