Film Production
Short Films
MediCapt at HEAL Africa Hospital
To support the reliable and secure documentation of forensic evidence needed to support sexual violence cases, PHR designed and developed MediCapt, an award-winning mobile application to document forensic evidence of sexual violence. Filmed in Goma, DRC, and premiered in London at the 2022 Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conflict hosted by the UK Government.
“Because We Are Doctors": How Syrian Health Workers Became a Target for Arrest and Torture
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) conducted an investigation into the purposeful, illegal, and brutal strategy by the Syrian government to commit these targeted atrocities against medical workers, effectively criminalizing their delivery of health care to the sick and wounded. This film was produced in 2019 alongside PHR clinicians conducting in-depth interviews and structured psychological assessments of 21 formerly-detained Syrian health professionals, including "Youssef".
The film was screened in 2019 in Berlin and in New York City at the Open Society Foundations to launch the PHR investigation, “My Only Crime Was That I Was a Doctor”: How the Syrian Government Targets Health Workers for Arrest, Detention, and Torture, providing new insight into how the Syrian government has grotesquely punished health workers for carrying out their professional duties.
From Fear to Freedom: The Search for Justice in The Gambia
In 2017, after the people of The Gambia finally ousted former President Yahya Jammeh, the new government was faced with the enormous task of identifying the location of thousands of missing persons, including those who has been abducted, tortured, and disappeared. This short film tells the story of South African forensic pathologist Dr. Steve Naidoo, who helped identify the remains and determine the cause of death of prominent opposition leader Solo Sandeng and others targeted by the Jammeh regime.
Filmed in Banjul, The Gambia, the film was screened in 2018 at a JRR event held at the United Nations, and at a side event of the Assembly of States Parties Parties of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
Evidence of Hope
Produced for Justice Rapid Response (JRR) and UN Women, featuring two investigators on the SGBV Justice Experts Roster who were deployed to the UN’s investigations in Syria and Iraq, and four survivor-witnesses they met during their work. Filmed in Germany, Turkey and the United States, the film examines efforts to bring perpetrators to justice, and the importance of quality and timely investigations of sexual and gender-based violence. Released in October 2017 by JRR and UN Women, and as part of the multimedia presentation Justice Now.