“In her devastating film, Jackson searches for the answer by speaking to the victims, to physicians, and aid workers; to the UN peacekeepers whose numbers are inadequate to the problem; and, finally, to the rapists themselves.”
– Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle, April 5th, 2008
Reviews & Articles
Articles
- “Victim alerts leaders to Congo rape crisis”
- – Jenna Hand, The Canberra Times, December 21st, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “Congo's Shame: Rape As A Weapon Of War”
- – Katharina Goetze, Hartford Courant, November 24th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “Breaking 'The Greatest Silence'”
- – Candice Knezevic, Center for American Progress, August 11th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “Doc Film Makers Keep Women's Issues on the Agenda”
- – Melissa Silverstein, The Women's Media Center, June 18th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “The victims' witness”
- – Kira Cochrane, The Guardian, May 9 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “If ever there was a film that ought to be required viewing for the readers of Bitch, it would be Lisa F Jackson’s 'The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.'”
- – Lisa Moricoli-Latham, Bitch Magazine, April 9th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “The film shows the twisted layers of damage from war, twisted until the soldiers believe they must rape to win. Twisted until the viewer becomes engulfed in the twisted message of magic and enemy control and devastation. And you shout at the screen.”
- – DeNeen L. Brown, The Washington Post, April 8, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “The problem is that these Bad Stories From Africa are rarely told in any depth or told by Africans. “The Greatest Silence” attempts to turn that paradigm on its head by putting the victims and the perpetrators, of what is truly a modern Holocaust, front and center.”
- – Dzana Tsomondo, Cool’eh Magazine (click here to read in full)
- “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”
- – Jessica Mosby, The Women's International Perspective, April 5th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “Durbin holds hearing on rape as a war crime”
- – James Oliphant, The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau, April 1st, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”
- – Harriette Yahr, MediaRights, March 17th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”
- – Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “Filmmaker profile: Lisa F. Jackson - giving victims a voice”
- – Julie Checkoway, The Salt Lake Tribune, February 27th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
