Don’t be afraid! Women who did not give up
Don’t be afraid! Women who did not give up
The role of women in Italian society, traced from the Resistance until the achievement of the right to equality, through the stories and voices of some among the 60 women who took part to the drama project I Don’t Give Up, I Don’t Give Up! Former partisans, working class women who fought for social and civil rights and who found, thanks to their experience in the drama workshops, the strength to tell their dramatic experiences. They are not acting: they are bringing on stage their life, their fights and the attitude they learned of not giving up facing difficulties. The documentary shows the determination they had in reaching fundamental rights and tells about the important and often forgotten role those women played in the fight for freedom.
An Almaterra/SPI-CGIL Torino production, with the support of SPI-CGIL regional and national SPI-CGIL and of Piemonte Doc Film Fund – Fondo Regionale per il Documentario
2009, BetacamSP, 60' and 48’
Directed and edited by: Cristina Monti
Pirector of photography: Paolo Rapalino
Color Correction: Marco Fantozzi
Produced by: Eufemia Ribichini for SPI-CGIL Turin, Gabriella Bordin and Laura Scagliotti for Associazione Almaterra
Music: Dogtroep, coro La Ginestra, Fabio Viana
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