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Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage
Official film poster
Directed byChelo Alvarez-Stehle
Written byChelo Alvarez-Stehle
Produced byChelo Alvarez-Stehle (Producer)
Mark Stehle (Executive Producer)
Deirdre Roney (Executive Producer)
CinematographyVicente Franco
Lara Weithorn
Edited byMarla Ulloa
María Zeiss
Kate Amend
Jean-Philippe Boucicaut
Music byJason Martin Castillo
Production
company
innerLENS Productions
See all credits (IMDB)
Distributed byinnerLENS Productions
Running time
86 min. / 52 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, Nepali

Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage (2016) is a documentary film that addresses the spectrum of sexual violence, from child sexual abuse and clergy abuse to rape and sex trafficking. It was directed, written and produced by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle.

Synopsis

SANDS OF SILENCE: WAVES OF COURAGE shares the 15-year quest of world-reporter Chelo Alvarez-Stehle as she exposes the underworld of sexual exploitation and trafficking from Asia to the Americas. Her journey leads to the windswept beach where her childhood ended, and family secrets began. As she documents the transformation of sex-trafficking survivor Virginia Isaias — a Mexican American woman whose past is engulfed in a cycle of sexual exploitation — into an inspiring advocate committed to break that pattern, Chelo undertakes a parallel journey of healing and introspection and sets out to shatter the silence about sexual abuse in her own life.[1]

Reception

In July 2017, the film was presented at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the United Nations in New York.[2]

On the occasion of the 2017 International Day for the Elimination of the Violence against Woman, the film was presented at the European Parliament at an event hosted by the Progressive Alliance of Socialist and Democrats (S&D) and PES Women (Party of European Socialist).[3]

The jury of the 59 th SoCal Journalism Awards of Southern California, composed by members of the Los Angeles Press Club and the Washington DC Press Club commented: “In a searing exploration of the sexual exploitation and trafficking of women worldwide, journalist Chelo Alvarez-Stehle also documents her own relatives’ sexual abuse, as well as herself, as they work through their efforts at coping and healing. A moving, poignant documentary of women learning to deal with the physiological and psychological stresses of abuse".[4]

The film was broadcast on RTVE Spain’s public television broadcast in 2017.[5]

In 2018, Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times, moderated a screening and Q&A of the film at the Los Angeles Press Club.[6]

After its premiere in Spain, the host of RTVE Antonio Gárate called the film "touching ... shocking ... fascinating", during an interview in March 2017 to director Chelo Álvarez-Stehle and the protagonist, Virginia Isaias, trafficking survivor and founder of the Foundation of Human Traffic Survivors in California.[7]

Voice of America: "A major effort is under way in California to fight the problem... As the documentary Sands of Silence currently in production and the [SOS_SLAVES] online game to educate young people that Alvarez-Stehle is developing".[8]

Forbes magazine acknowledged the film’s use of new technologies: “Films like Sands of Silence utilize technology in a way that brings voice to the victims and survivors of sexual abuse and encourages audiences to take steps toward ending the culture of silence and stigma associated with sexual exploitation".[9]

El Mundo daily: “Sands of Silence closes a circle: the cruel trafficking and the daily abuse, the far away and the close by, the denounced and the silent”.[10]

El País daily called it “An invitation to break the silence".[11]

Film critic Julie Casper Roth of Agnès Films Review analyzes: “Alvarez-Stehle is patient with whom she interviews, never provokes a quick response from his characters or makes a premature cut to a new scene. This establishes a visual and emotional intimacy between the viewer and the subject”.[12]

Japanese feminist magazine Josei Tembo, published by the ICHIKAWA Fusae Center for Women and Governance, featured the film’s in their cover after its Tokyo premiere.[13][14]

Argentina’s Theatrical release of Sands of Silence in August 2019, was echoed by the press. Pablo Arahuete's critique for Cinefreaks says [in Spanish] that "… It is above all a testimony of enormous courage and self-reference that quickly escapes the shortcut of the first-person catharsis (as sometimes happens in this type of documentaries). Thus the film displays a range of questions about how the environments surrounding abuse interact among them once the first piece of an invisible layer that covers and conceals truths, emotions and traumas that crawl over time, and last lifetime, is removed”[15].

The film was presented at universities in various continents: Yale, UCLA Law School and NYU, Oxford, Barcelona, Brisbane and Hiroshima.[16][17][18][19]

Sands of Silence had its U.S. broadcast premiere on the WORLD Channel and PBS Stations on Sept. 27, 2020.[20][21][22][23]

Awards


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