Silent Veil
Transcript
00:00 – 00:14 – OPENING CREDITS
01:40 – 01:42 – Title – Silent Veil
01:44 – 01:48
TEXT: “The believer who has the most perfect faith is the one whose behaviour is best, and the best of you are the ones who are best to their women.” Koran: Hadith – Tirmidhi
01:49 – 01:56
TEXT: In the mid-nineties, Sulphuric and Hydrochloric acid began to be used for agricultural purposes throughout rural Pakistan. Soon, acid was readily available all throughout the country.
01:57 – 01:59
TEXT: Shortly thereafter, the first cases of acid burning against women began to surface.
02:06 – 02:41
After being in a business for 28 years, expanding, I’ve erm, more than thirty salons all over Pakistan. When life becomes easy for you its very natural for people to start looking down on them and start feeling the pains and the wrongs or the miseries which are taking place around you. One day, when I was about to leave my office –
02:41 – 02:45
ASTON: Masarrat Misbah – Founder, Smile Again Pakistan
02:41 – 03:31
and this is, erm, four and a half years back, a girl, erm a girl walked in and she, she was all covered up and she said, erm, she wanted me to help her and, erm, I said to her why don’t you come tomorrow, you know, I’m just closing down and she says no you have to help me now and she unveiled herself and when she did that, I’ve never seen anything like that in my life before. I’ve heard about it, I’ve read about it and, erm, I saw a girl who was, er, who had eyes…no eyes actually, just one eye slightly open, er, there was no nose, her mouth was protruding out and er, she was totally burnt.
03:33 – 04:14
There was something, you know, which totally changed my life at that very moment. The next morning I placed a little ad in the newspaper, erm, inviting the girls who are burn victims to come and see me on a certain date, and er, forty-two girls walked in. That was the day when I realised that I’ve gotten myself into a very big problem and this was not a problem, basically it was an issue that needed to be addressed and for that I needed a lot of help and support.
04:24 – 04:38
I had the great fortune, along the course of my long life, to meet a woman, who started Smile Again Foundation in Udine – Clarice Felli. She proposed travelling to Pakistan,
04:35 – 04:38
ASTON: Dr. Giuseppe Losasso – Italian Smile Again Surgeon
04:38 – 06:28
because she had read an article about a young girl in Pakistan who had been “acidified”. Girls are horribly brutalized by the throwing of acid in their faces by men who feel humiliated by a refusal. Those are the principle motivations by which young girls between the ages of 18 and 20 are ruined for life. So, we came here and we met a great woman – Masarrat Misbah. She was the person who really changed our operation. Thanks to her, we found a place where we could visit the victims and there we could perform the operations. She introduced us to the very important people – prime ministers, presidents. I have seen these women, I have operated on them and talked to them. Yesterday, we operated on a 16-year-old girl. Terrible! Destroyed! A monster! A monster! Diabolical. It is diabolical.
06:30 – 06:46
I think they should be punished in the exact same way that they punished others. These people are never brought to justice and they are never punished.
06:47 – 06:54
No one has ever been punished and no one has ever been caught. The whole law is weak.
06:56 – 07:01
Acid is very accessible at the market. Almost anyone can buy it.
07:07 – 07:11
We are heading towards the industrial area of Lahore.
07:14 – 07:24
We are going to buy the acid from a chemical shop. These shops, basically they are meant to supply acid to the chemical industries -
07:24 – 07:28
ASTON: Ushna Khan – Smile Again Staff
07:24 – 07:37
those who prepare washing powders and detergents. No license is required to buy, anybody can go in and purchase the acid.
07:58 – 08:16
>Hello. I’m looking for chemicals to clean my bathrooms with. They’re quite dirty.
>If you go just a little bit further, you will find those chemicals.
>Thank you, thank you.
08:41 – 09:38
>Hello. Do you sell chemicals?
>Yes.
>I’m looking for chemicals to clean my bathroom and my bedroom with. They’re really dirty.
>Give him one gallon.
>Ok. Just mix some water in with it before you use it.
>I don’t want to go home and be disappointed. I only want the strongest, most intense chemicals, so it wipes everything clean.
>Rest assured, the stains will come off.
>Ok, then it’s fine. So how do I apply this?
>I think you should use a brush.
>Yes, I think so, too. But what if it touches my hands?
>I think they would melt.
>Yes, you should be careful.
>Ok, ok, ok.
>Where do I pay?
09:47 – 09:55
Oh, see, its so, so concentrated the smell is like…
09:56 – 10:08
He didn’t ask me anything…whether I wanted it for a different purpose. And he just directed me to the other man, who started filling this container with acid.
10:09 – 10:25
He has not asked a single word from where he has come, what is his name, what is his identity. They were more interested to sell it. So easy to destroy anybody.
10:37 – 10:38:
ASTON – Jhelum
11:04 – 11:09
My name is Sabra – Sabra Sultana – and I was born in Jhelum.
11:22 – 13:28
It happened on December 18th, 1993 – I was about fifteen or sixteen years old. One issue was the age difference. At that time, I was 15 years old – 15 or 16. He was about 35 years old. My father was very ill at that time, so my family had made the decision to marry me off quickly. Later we realized that he was just too old. But by that time, it was too late. We were married and he suffered from an inferiority complex, meaning he would beat me or not even let me go to the roof. He would not take me to anybody’s house. When we had guests, I had to wear a full hijab, and everywhere we went. My husband’s family always accused me of bringing too little dowry into the marriage, for which my husband would beat me daily. For one whole year he didn’t allow me to go anywhere. His house was only a 10 or 15-minute walk from my parents’ house, but whenever my mother came to pick me up, he would not let me go with her. When my mother came to pick me up that day, I was cooking- it was around 2:00 or 2:30pm – and he happened to let me go. My mother took me and I had just reached the street corner when we heard a voice yelling “Stop right there!” – so I stopped and I went back. When I said that he had given me permission to go, he grabbed my hair, dragged me around and started beating me. When my mother tried to help me he beat her as well. There were people around us who were watching but no one came to my help.
13:30 – 14:18
Then he dragged me and was beating me. He pulled me by the hair and threw me against the wall, which broke my nose. And I was two months pregnant at that time. Meanwhile, as my mother reached the house, he dragged me into a room and started beating me a lot. He took me into the room, poured kerosene on me and lit me on fire. Then my mother came with some people from our neighbourhood. They broke down the door and took me to the hospital.
14:26 – 14:42
I become nostalgic and think of everything that has happened, and my family just cannot face it anymore.
14:57 – 15:19
When I look at these girls and I look at their faces, the young beautiful girls who have lost everything – I always think of my daughter. I always think of, you know, the small pain that she goes through, and I feel so much you know, I would do anything to rid her of that pain.
15:20 – 15:40
It’s not only a physical problem – the acid that destroys the facial tissues with unbearable pain. Even stronger is the inner, the unbearable pain.
15:42 – 15:47
The life of that person, or that male or female is totally finished.
15:45 – 15:48
ASTON: Dr. Syed Shah Faisal – Pakistani Smile Again Surgeon
15:47 – 16:04
Nobody accepts them. So we try our level best, er, with Smile Again programme, to again give them hope, reduce their psychological stress and try to reduce their trauma, psychological trauma.
16:05 – 16:37
It changes your life! In a country like Pakistan, where being a woman is already very difficult, those women lose their only worth; a normal face that could give her a family, children and a future. This is diabolical! This is diabolical!
17:01 – 17:15
Our religion is misunderstood, people only think about the barbaric things which are taking place and they think ‘Well these are the Muslims’. It’s not that, it’s all about peace and harmony.
17:24 – 17:45
When we are following the religion, the way it is told in Koran – this is also to be followed, and people have to understand, er, Islam as a religion which has given rights to women so many years back when it was not even thought about.
17:47 – 17:49
This is not what Islam is all about, this is not what Muslims -
17:49 – 17:55
ASTON: Ayeshia Sana – Broadcast News Anchor
17:49 – 18:09
are all about…just some, psychotic people…uneducated people. I don’t think any religion teaches violence. I don’t think any religion encourages you or tells you to go disfigure somebody’s face.
18:10 – 18:35
It’s only these things you know, that have been lost somewhere in time – that people have forgotten what, you know, the practices or the preachings were of our prophet – peace be upon him. If we start, you know, reading them again. If we start understanding them again, I’m sure that violence of such natures will never occur.
18:40 – 18:43
ASTON: Karachi
19:05 – 20:00
>We are Muslims and this is not the right thing to do. We should respect our sisters and daughters, and we shouldn’t get into this kind of practice.
>This is unjust! Throwing acid is unjust and doesn’t suit a Muslim.
>Prophet Mohammed taught that the faces of the followers of Allah shall not be disfigured. The faces of followers of other prophets were disfigured and Allah punished them. It is not right to do what the Prophet himself opposed.
20:01 – 20:04
Every society has its own ways and mechanisms –
20:04 – 20:10
ASTON: Asif Misbah – Masarrat’s Brother
20:04 – 20:14
of creating awareness amongst their people, about basic human rights and about, erm, what is right and what is wrong.
20:12 – 20:18
ASTON: Mr. Misbah Uddin Khan – Masarrat’s Father
20:15 – 21:46
I think that has, over the years, deteriorated so much in Pakistan that the traditional systems of, er, education has gone. Religious people in Pakistan have a lot of influence, you know, upon the people. They need to take up these issues, erm – violence against women, social injustice, erm, the religious people start getting involved in issues of a theological nature and start, you know, picking on minute details of religion and making them the focus of the attention and by doing so lose out on important social issues, like violence against women. The majority of the Muslims are unable to understand the Koran, er, they don’t bother to go through the translation of the Koran. They don’t know the Arabic to understand what it’s saying. If the right understanding of religion was available at the, you know, community level – then people would understand these things. That’s the problem we have – something which can be used to bring about, er, a lot of social good and social change but it’s not been used.
21:52 – 21:55
ASTON: Islamabad
22:21 – 22:26
ASTON: Rawalpindi
22:39 – 23:24
My name is Irum Saeed and I am 21 years old. It happened on September 1st 1996. The boy threw acid on me because he could not tolerate my parents’ rejection of his proposal for me. And he said that if I wasn’t his, nobody could have me. My youngest sister was to get admission to college, and I had handed in her forms for her. I went to the college to see whether she had been admitted or not. On my way there, this boy saw me. I was walking down the street, when he approached me from behind. He came around to the front and threw acid on my face. By the time I started screaming, he had thrown all of the acid on me. I just screamed.
24:26 – 24:41
He immediately ran away, but even today, I cannot forget the crooked smile on his face as he ran off.
24:42 – 24:48
Do you think he was smiling at you to show that he had won?
24:50 – 25:46
Yes, that’s exactly how I felt and I still think that his smile conveyed a lot of satisfaction. It felt like this was the best thing that could have happened in his life. Since it was a densely populated area, I saw an open gate nearby. I immediately ran into the house, not knowing whose it was, because I wanted to wash my face. I begged them for water to wash my face, but since I was in very bad shape, the two women in the house were just puzzled and confused. When I asked them for water, they just told me to get out of their house. When I asked them for water, they just told me to get out of their house, saying that they didn’t have anything.
25:47 – 26:28
There was a man asleep inside the house who came outside and took me to the hospital. The hospital called my parents and my condition was so bad that I was unconscious for about three days. When I gained consciousness, I found my mother sitting next to my bed, crying.
26:55 – 27:55
My father couldn’t find the courage to come see me and only sat outside the room. He was in such a distraught state that he just wanted to die. My father had a heart condition and was already suffering from paralysis and just couldn’t find the strength to see me. I asked my mother for a mirror, but she said that there was nothing left to look at. Then I immediately saw the scarring on my hands and realised that, if my hands were so badly hurt, what condition was my face in? Even today, I feel the paid as strongly as I did back then – in the same manner.
28:35 – 28:38
ASTON: Lahore
28:53 – 29:01
In the era of the 1970s in particular when I was just a young adolescent, there was a lot more personal freedom –
29:01 –
ASTON: Faryal Ali Gohar – Author/Film Maker
29:01 – 29:59
for women and men. A lot more personal freedom for, you know, the middle class and the upper middle class, Karachi would have its discos and you could go to the beach without feeling harassed, which is impossible to see now because there was a huge change that was brought about by, literally, sheer force and terror by the policies of General Zial Hukh – where I remember I was a, I was about 17 or 18, I was in college and we received a directive. The principal of the college had to announce it in our assembly, and this directive was read out and was from the federal government – “From today onwards no girls must wear clothes that reveal buttocks”. The t-shirt had to be long enough to cover the buttocks, literally I mean that was the wording.
30:00 – 31:10
So on television, newsreaders…women, newsreaders were suddenly veiled, you know, the day before they were not veiled and then the second time you saw them they were veiled. There had been a lot of political manoeuvrings and manipulations in this region particularly over the last thirty years because when Afghanistan had the war with the Soviet Union and erm, the CIA was supporting, these er Mullahs, it created this very rabid brand of Islam and part of the way in which it was done, erm, was textbooks were written for the little grandchildren – six and seven years old children in schools – in Afghanistan, prepared by state department Washington DC. Now look at the mathematics questions, ok? It’s like a subtraction. You have six soviet soldiers and you kill four of them – how many are left? Ok, so there’s been a concerted brutalisation, you know, of the mind and these children were born into that, they have lived in it, they have known nothing but war.
31:11 – 31:34
The whole system of justice and accountability has totally crumbled in Pakistan. If this could be an educated nation where we understand the rights that are granted to men and women by the constitution and by religious texts, then you know, we’d be a far happier society.
31:45 – 31:47
ASTON: Punjab University, Lahore
31:47 – 32:10
If you look at Pakistani society, it has gone through very different sociologically regressive stages. And that also includes the regressive tendencies that you see in some males. If a female is not submissive then you are free to do whatever you want to.
32:13 – 32:15
Once you disfigure somebody, and society -
32:15 – 32:18
ASTON: Professor Najam – Vice Chancellor, Punjab University
32:15 – 32:54
accepts the disfigurement, that leads to unequality and acceptance of that unequality, and I think that has become inherently a part of our society. Even with education, if they feel that things are moving out of their hands…even with money, I know of several cases where the woman was rich, the man was rich but he still, he could not control her…so this is purely and simple, matter of control. If you don’t listen to me this is what happens to you.
32:56 – 33:50
Women face a lot of resistance from their homes, from their families, from their husbands, from everybody around them – they do. Domestic violence is rampant, it is, you know, it is kind of like hidden. It is covered up because they say this is how your life is going to be. There are more feudal people and there are more conservative people and there are more so-called religious people – and they don’t, first of all, they are not aware of all this, they just consider it your, you know, your personal matter. They consider anything that is happening domestically, they consider it your private matter. It is considered bad, you know, that that matter is discussed outside. They would rather have a burn victim rot away and die in a corner in their house than tell everybody.
33:51 – 34:02
But people are just probably so caught up in what they have to eat and what they have to wear and whether they have a roof over their heads that they don’t consider this important enough.
34:05 – 34:08
ASTON: Multan
34:37 – 34:43
I got married in ninth grade. My father was retiring at the time and arranged for the marriage.
34:55 – 36:35
I have two children from him. Immediately after the wedding. I realised that he was into drugs and not a nice person, so I got divorced from him. I returned to my mother’s house after the divorce. Someone rang our doorbell at five in the morning. My mother got up to answer it. The person was holding a gift-wrapped box and a glass behind it, which was filled with acid. I took a few steps back and that’s when the man threw the acid through the screen door onto my face. My eyes were shut because of the acid on my face and my mother didn’t know how to use the mobile phone so I just grabbed the phone and redialled the number of a boy who had previously proposed to me, and he showed up at my house 20 minutes later.
36:35 – 36:48
They took me to Civil Hospital, where they treated me and washed my face with water and I stayed there for 20 days.
36:51 – 37:10
It has now been four years since, since I got divorced. Before that I received quite a few proposals, out of which one was accepted – his name was Hamad.
37:28 – 37:50
He is Hamad, he is my husband, and we officially got married on October 24th, 2008. Even though we’re officially husband and wife and he supports me, we’re not living together.
37:51 – 39:03
Initially, there was no hope for her treatment. When this incident happened, she had to stay in Civil Hospital. And we had no idea how to deal with all of it. People over here disapprove because…she’s alone and she lives only with her mother so that’s why, in an Islamic country, everybody is pointing fingers and wondering why I am supporting her, when we are not in a proper relationship. So we decided that, because we had already made plans to get married and stay married in the future, why not do it now? So we got officially married. Due to the global recession, my previous employer started downsizing, so I had to leave that job. And I also have my own family to provide for.
39:04 – 39:48
>Do your parents know about this?
>I have not told my parents about this. We wanted to get married properly through a proposal from my family to hers. But now it’s hard to make them understand we got married in secrecy instead, so we could be together legally, since such interactions are not allowed in Islam without a proper relationship. My financial situation isn’t very good and if everybody knew about this, they would complain, asking why I married her, if I couldn’t fully support her.
40:31 – 41:07
We have a registration of more than four hundred girls with us…and we have been able to help a good eighty-three girls in their reconstructive surgeries. But there are so many other cases, there are cases which have occurred before, there are cases which are happening now…we don’t want these girls to just live on donation, we want them to stand on their feet – have respect for themselves, have a place in this society so that people can start respecting them.
41:09 – 42:25
The first girl we operated on in Italy was Nashreem. I met her when she was 18 years old. She had no eyes, no sight, no hair, and her entire face was burned. But above all, she was like a small, fearful animal. She came to Italy and she wouldn’t talk. She would just stay in the corner with her headphones on, listening to music all day, without talking to anybody. Now, she is the face – the symbol – on Smile Again. Now, she is a woman full of courage, with beauty in her face thanks to the operations. But her spirit has changed too!
42:53 – 43:00
My name is Nashreem Sharif and I am 25 years old.
43:07 – 43:11
I was 15 years old at the time of the attack.
43:24 – 44:38
I met Masarrat two years after the incident. She took me to Italy, where I stayed for about three and a half years and underwent numerous surgeries. I got a very good response there, even more so that I did at home, and they treated me as a family member. They didn’t treat me as an outsider, but as one of their own. They were always by my side. I studied Braille in Italy for five months and learned Italian. After all I’ve gone through and with all the training I’ve received, I feel that I can stand on my own two feet and I can tell the other girls to be hopeful and to make the most out of it.
44:46 – 44:57
Along with a new life, Masarrat has given me an identity. Today I am working as a beautician, a life-long dream of mine.
44:59 – 45:29
When I first brought my daughter here, I thought her life was just devastated, that she was just a corpse and that there was no hope. When I took her to Masarrat after that, I had a lot of hope. I realised that there was a chance that my daughter could recover and lead a normal life. Masarrat Misbah is the person who has given me this hope and helped me out.
45:35 – 45:49
The strength which is, which these girls are getting…is because they know that at the back there’s somebody to support them.
46:00 – 46:13
The support that they give to their families by earning, by learning a skill – it makes so much of a difference not only in their life…but their family’s life also.
46:27 – 46:35
They gain back their respect in their family, they gain back their respect in their society – they’re earning, they’re not a burden on their family.
46:56 – 47:25
If you are educated you have to impart that education, you have to let other people also live a better life. Given a chance, given, er, the right guidance if they do get, they can turn the situation into their favour, they can turn the situation into how they want it.
47:29 – 47:52
After the operations, my condition improved to some extent and Masarrat encouraged me a lot. After joining Smile Again…you saw me covered in a veil. But when I am there, I never feel like my face is burned.
47:53 – 48:20
I made peace with the fact that was happened, happened. And I started to concern myself with who I was now. I made the decision to continue my education to save whatever was left of my life.
48:22 – 49:03
Initially, when I was in Karachi, I was very depressed. But things changed when I came to Lahore to visit Massarat’s salon, where a lot of the girls were working. Sabra and Saira, in particular, impressed me with their confidence. Seeing these girls, I became encouraged. I had twice attempted suicide but after seeing them I sought forgiveness from Allah that I would never try that again.
49:05 – 49:23
Because these girls are in such trauma after their treatment, they’re not ready to face society. I tell them that I used to be the exact same way, but that I’m alright now and that I can work.
49:24 – 49:38
I would like to teach others that you must make yourself strong, learn new things throughout life and teach others.
49:43 – 50:01
This is the happiest moment of my life that she is independent and courageous enough to be on her own. I also pray for the people who commit these heinous act, but for the mothers I pray that God gives them the strength and the courage to deal with this.
50:02 – 50:11
My husband accepts my in my current condition and he often tells me that I am the same person I was before.
50:12 – 50:40
We had lost hope in the beginning but now things are taking shape. Of course there are many obstacles but I am ready to face them all. Almighty Allah sent us an angel who helped us in every aspect. We received treatment that we thought we couldn’t get.
50:41 – 51:07
>Thank you very much.
>Children, do you want to say anything?
>No.
>What do you think of your mom?
>She’s very nice to me.
>Do you love your mom?
>Yes.
>Give your mom a quick kiss.
51:24 – 51:51
Maybe now, with the awareness…with the awareness on electronic and print media… more and more women from all walks of life are talking about it and they are, they would like something to be done on a more permanent basis.
51:52 – 51:58
We have at least managed to project the issue to, to those people that matter and who would definitely be helping us in the near future.
51:59 – 52:09
Equality – so that not one woman would feel that she has been mistreated, or has been treated differently.
52:14 – 52:32
We just can not go on helping them and giving them free medical treatments or you know arranging for their vocational training or for, er, for their shelter but we have to, we have to address the route cause. We have to eradicate it completely
52:33 – 52:53
It will take some time to handle this issue but, er, in Shalah hope is good that er, by creating informations and er, in the masses and the checking them, those people who are causing all this, can handle these issues.
53:00 – 53:10
Everybody, every day, could do something good. That would save humanity. We never think about that because we’re concerned with ourselves.
53:22 – 53:28
You see this is the best part, where they are their normal self. Where they are just like any other girl here.
53:41 – 53:57
The phenomenal change that I have seen in them, in these girls, how confident they are. How much control they have over their lives, not feeling helpless anymore – they are feeling their best and they are doing their best.
55:02 – 55:17
My message to the world, and especially to America, is that we need your help. We need people who could come forward and say, right you know, we are specialised in certain surgeries or reconstructive field and erm, you know - we need those doctors.
55:18 – 55:32
We have to think of future for our girls, for those girls who have no, no privilege but want to lead a normal life. If by our small gestures that could change why shouldn’t I do it? I think we must.
55:39 – 55:51
TEXT: Massarat Misbah continues to help victims get help. To date, she has registered over 500 girls to get surgery. Over 100 girls have received treatment so far.
In March 2010 she was awarded the Women of Courage Award from the president of Pakistan as well as other humanitarian awards over the past five years.
She has completely dedicated herself to eradicating this problem once and for all.
55:52 – 55:59
TEXT: Irum finished her college education and now works fulltime as a Librarian in Islamabad. She is completely self-reliant and helps to provide for her family.
56:00 – 56:06
TEXT: Sabra now works fulltime with Depilex Smileagain as patient liaison between hospitals and Depilex Smileagain, helping and comforting newly arrived burned victims.
56:08 – 56:14
TEXT: Kanwal continues to receive treatment and is fully employed by a large pharmaceutical company as a phone operator.
56:15 – 56:20
TEXT: She and Hamad were married in April 2010 with the support of both their families.
56:20 – 56:23
TEXT: Saira continues to work at Depilex as a beautician.
56:24 – 56:27
TEXT: Nashreem is a certified Braille teacher in the Lahore area.
56:28 – 56:31
TEXT: After working with Massarat Misbah for 5 years, Dr Giuseppe Losasso continues to lead teams of surgeons travelling to Pakistan to perform surgeries.
56:32 – 56:35
TEXT: Slowly, legislation and enforcement in Pakistan are increasing. In a recent development, the province of Punjab has prescribed the death penalty under the Anti Terror Law for throwing acid on a woman.
56:35 – 56:50
TEXT – (Credits)
Directed and Produced by
Milt Alvarez
Edited by
Arndt Peemoeller
Camera
Gianny Trutmann
Additional Camera
Milt Alvarez
Original Score Composed and Produced by
Jef Stott
Vocals Performed by
Riffat Sultana
Online Editor/Graphics
Matt Welch
Music Supervision
Shane Barach
Post Production Supervisor
Matt Welch
Post Production Coordinator
Keith Alexander
Re-Recording mixer
Rick Alexander
Color Correction
New Hat Digital Color Correction
Lead Colorist
Beau Leon
Colorists
Brandon Chavez
Cory Berendzen
Title Design
Juan Rosenfeldt/ Matt Welch
Camera Assistants
Enaj & Cameron
Legal Counsel
James Leonard
Accounting
Suresh Jain
Translation Services
MultiLingual Solutions, Inc
Italian Translation
Paolo Moscatelli
Equipment Rentals
Stray Angel Films
Web design
Juan Rosenfeldt
Security
Zahoor
Drivers/Translator
Ms. Ushna Khan
Special Thanks to:
Masarrat Misbah
Masood Haider
Dr. Giuseppe Losasso
Sabra Sultana
Irum Saeed
Ms. Kanwal
Mr. Misbah Uddin Khan
Mrs. Anis Fatima Khan
Dr. Syed Shah Faisal
Asif Misbah
Ms. Faryal Ali Gohar
Farooq (Sunny) Hasasn
Nashreem Akhter
Siara Liaquat
Reda Misbah
Ilsa Swaleh
Dr. Najama Najam
Bill Hewes
Gareth Hopson
Maury Rosenfeld
Planet Blue
Technicolor Creative Services
New Hat Digital Color Correction
56:51 – 56:52
TEXT: This film is dedicated to all the girls and women in this film who spoke out against these barbaric acts at risk to themselves and loved ones in an effort to end this violence once and for all.
56:53
TEXT: With deep gratitude, thank you to my wife and children for all your love and support while making this film.
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TEXT: Parts of this film contained re-enactments.
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