ANA BOVINO is an Argentinean filmmaker and political scientist based in Barcelona whose sister survived a terrible femicide attempt in her dance studio in Buenos Aires. The incident was massively reproduced in a violent media circus. Furious with the current narrative of portraying women and trans people in the media as helpless victims, she decided to make a documentary as her personal reaction to the horrors of gender violence.

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IN THIS EPISODE Ana talks about how in 2016 the mass communication came together in Argentina and created a movement with the hashtag #niunamenos ("Not one [woman] less”) in reaction to the terrible statics for femicides in her country. Ana talks about femicide from her own personal and intimate point of view. She explains us what is wrong with the current narrative of victims, and why we should be given them a voice and NOT a face.  

Ana and I talk about stalking and how often women are branded as “crazy” instead of looking at the red flags and dangers when a man clearly is obsessing over her. In Argentina, gender violence is finally being addressed from a solution-orientated point of view – watch the episode to find out what is being done. 

Finally, Anna also tells us about her documentary film LAS MIL (The Thousand) which is her her answer to the horrors of gender violence. The title is inspired by the old folk tale Arabian nights (also known as 1001 nights). Watch Ana explaining the tale of Scheherazade, who was a political strategist, and not a sex entertainer of the king, as male authors, translators, and scholars would like to have us believe. 

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Follow her

Instagram: @anitabovino

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This Interview was recorded Thursday, October 14th 2021 

Created and hosted by: Louise Brix Andersen

Find out more about the work of Louise: www.louisebrix.com 

Instagram: @louisebrixa

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WATCH ON: https://xotv.me/channels/473-changing-the-narrative