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In this article, I draw on three documentaries I have made (Growing Up Married [2016], Lifeline [2020], and Left Behind [2023]) on different forms of gendered violence. I use these as examples to discuss ways in which films made within academic contexts can inform and influence policy. While doing so I reflect on how I built a network of policy makers and charities and used film as a potentially useful tool for partnership development. I explore how scholars can consider filmmaking as a form of activism while arguing that strategies developed within the frame of creative practice afford us alternative ways of promoting social, cultural and political change. I examine the relationship between academic research and activism and the specific role that filmmaking can play in enhancing/problematising this relationship, and argue that the cultivation of impact (as activism) goes beyond institutional, and funding imperatives.
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Atakav, Eylem. 2020. “Growing Up Married: representing forced marriage on screen.” Critical Discourse Studies 17 (2): 229-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1665078
Atakav, Eylem, dir. 2016. Growing Up Married. United Kingdom: University of East Anglia. https://vimeo.com/179433103/fdb4483673?share=copy
Atakav, Eylem, and Karoline Pelikan, dir. 2020. Lifeline. United Kingdom: University of East Anglia. https://vimeo.com/481664305
Atakav, Eylem, and Karoline Pelikan, dir. 2023. Left Behind. United Kingdom: University of East Anglia. https://vimeo.com/837614493
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