Toronto premiere of Giselle Portenier's award-winning verité documentary that celebrates brave Tanzanian girls who risk life and family to follow their dreams. The inspiring film tells the story of girls like 12-year-old Rosie Makore who had to make the most difficult choice a child should never have to make: submit to female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage, or run away from home. And it's about Rhobi Samwelly, the indomitable human rights activist who confronts her community to protect the girls in her Safe House. In The name Of Your Daughter gives a voice to childen whose voices have never been heard before and has been called 'powerful,' 'moving,' and even 'life-changing' by audiences at film festivals around the world.
The screening, a Women Deliver Satellite Event, will be followed by a panel discussion: Female Genital Mutilation: A Canadian issue too?