Women, War & Peace: The Balkans

FAIN: TW-50049-11

WNET (New York, NY 10019-7416)
Pamela Hogan (Project Director: July 2010 to present)

Production of a one-hour documentary examining the impact of civil war in the Balkans on women and the first international trial for crimes of sexual violence in wartime.

Women, War & Peace: The Balkans is a one-hour documentary about the Balkans' explosion into civil war in the 1990s, the reports of mass rapes used as a tactic of war, and the international court established to end the impunity. The film explores the jurisprudential precedents regarding war crimes against women set by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In particular, it focuses on the story of the municipality of Foca in eastern Bosnia. The film presents the women who bravely sought justice at the Foca trial, which became the first trial in history focused on wartime crimes of sexual violence. The Balkans is part of a five-part documentary series, Women, War & Peace, which will air on public television in 2011 as a special presentation of WIDE ANGLE.

Associated Products

I Came to Testify (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: I Came to Testify
Writer: Pamela Hogan
Director: Pamela Hogan
Producer: WNET and Fork Films
Abstract: When the Balkans exploded into war in the 1990s, reports that tens of thousands of women were being systematically raped as a tactic of ethnic cleansing captured the international spotlight. I Came to Testify tells how sixteen women who had been imprisoned by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca broke history’s great silence and took the witness stand in an international court of law. Their courage resulted in a triumphant verdict that led to new international laws about sexual violence in war. Narrated by Matt Damon, the film is the first hour in the five-part documentary series Women, War & Peace that aired on PBS in 2011.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/
Primary URL Description: The website for the Women, War & Peace. The site includes the entire one-hour film in streaming video and related, Web-only content.
Primary URL Description: This is the website for the series Women, War & Peace. It includes the entire one-hour film in streaming video and related, Web-only content.
Secondary URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/full-episodes/i-came-to-testify/
Secondary URL Description: Click on this link to watch the film online.
Access Model: Open access
Format: DVD
Format: Web

Prizes

Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts
Date: 5/16/2012
Organization: American Bar Association
Abstract: The American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts recognize outstanding work that fosters the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system. This is the ABA’s highest honor in recognition of this purpose, and no more than one Silver Gavel is presented in each category.

Women, War and Peace (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Women, War and Peace
Writer: -----
Abstract: Gracie Award
Year: 2012
Format: DVD

Prizes

Gracie Award
Date: 3/19/2012
Organization: Alliance for Women in Media
Abstract: Women, War and Peace received the Gracie Awad for Outstanding Series. Additionally, Abrigail Disney received a Gracie Award for Producer on Pray the Devil Back to Hell.

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