“This documentary of the highest calling exposes an unknown tragedy.”
– James Greenberg, The Hollywood Reporter
Reviews & Articles
Reviews
- “This brave, extraordinary film is in the great tradition of people like Casement and Morel, who tried to draw the world's attention to the Congo 100 years ago, and in the courageous tradition of all who've spoken up for the rights of women for centuries. This film will long endure. ”
- – Adam Hochschild, author "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa"
- “A Voice for Rape Victims”
- – Jan Goodwin, More Magazine, July/August 2008
- “Don't miss this gripping documentary...”
- – Candice Frederick, Essence Magazine, April 2008
- “In this poignant and powerful documentary, director Lisa F. Jackson … persuades victims to break their silence and share their shattering stories.”
- – The Week Magazine (film was “Pick of the Week”)
- “Lisa F. Jackson's powerful, brutal film is the closest most of the women will ever come to justice.”
- – Entertainment Weekly, #986, April 11, 2008
- “Congo’s Horror, as Seen Through a Personal Filter”
- – Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times, April 8th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “The primary accomplishment of Lisa Jackson's documentary … is to expose the horrors of what is surely the world's most uneven gender conflict.”
- – Darrell Hartman, The New York Sun, April 8, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “In her graphic and extremely powerful film ... Jackson leads a brave and determined investigation.”
- – Daniele Bora, NEED - The Humanitarian Magazine, April 7th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “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 (click here to read in full)
- “Shining light on ‘soul-ripping’ inhumanity A new documentary, “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” illuminates and devastates.”
- – Michael Winship, The Messenger Post, April 2nd, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “Excellent (4 stars) HBO Expose' Sheds Light on African Country's Violence against Women”
- – Kam Williams, News Blaze, March 29th, 2009 (click here to read in full)
- “Hundreds of thousands of women have been systematically raped in the Congolese “war on women”. Lisa F Jackson's essential documentary gives them a voice.”
- – Natalie Hanman, The Guardian, March 20th, 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)
- “New York filmmaker captures war-torn Congo through beaten females’ eyes”
- – Amy Zimmer, Metro New York, March 11th, 2008 (click here to read in full)
- “This documentary of the highest calling exposes an unknown tragedy.”
- – James Greenberg, The Hollywood Reporter (click here to read in full)
- “Vet documaker Lisa F. Jackson offers a harrowing look at violence against women as a war crime in "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo." Lensing is exceptional through this distressing and disturbing doc…”
- – Joe Leydon, Variety (click here to read in full)
- “Harrowing and heart-rending and maddening and confounding... ”
- – Robert Llyod, LA Times (click here to read in full)
