VISION

AUDIO

DATELINE STING

1.

PTT

Evocative thought track from Henry

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Establishers of Colombia

Music

b.

1b

Street traffic

Kids playing on streets

Men around streets

(DRONE) In Colombia, when a boy expresses pain, doubt, sadness, anguish… (Pause)

When a boy openly expresses those feelings he is called “girl”, “don’t be a girl

Many men, in front of pain, anxiety, insecurity, don’t know how to respond with anything but violence.

c. “

DATA [1]

IN A COUNTRY MADE FAMOUS BY DRUG LORDS AND GUERRILLA FIGHTERS

THERE’S A PROBLEM WITH MACHISMO

AND IT’S LINKED TO AN ALARMING SURGE IN GENDER BASED VIOLENCE.

MAYOR UPSOT: Violence against women continues to escalate in the country and in Bogota, fuelled by entrenched violent machismo in society. Machismo kills!

BUT CAN TOXIC MASCULINITY BE ERADICATED BY TEACHING MEN TO CARE*

(use footage from prison of men doing hair – because if you use nappies it’s too close to the opening scene)

Daniel: “I want to be there for them. To comb my wife’s hair. To love and honour her”

(olay this with good shots of them all doing hair)

d.

Henry Master IV

SUBREEL 1

HENRY – We have to work on new masculinity. We have to continue saying, “This is the alternative, here’s support”.

e.

School of Care

We have to think outside the box

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TITLE GRAPHIC

THE SCHOOL FOR MACHO MEN

By Louis Dai and Calliste Weitenberg

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School of Care

Set up School of Care and Henry

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Bogota establishers

Drone – DJI0007

Drone – DJI0002

NATSOT

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Wide of class where people are listening to instructor

SUBREEL 1

ALT GRABS

SUBREEL 1 /

NICOLAS (TRAINER): The first thing to know is whether we even need to change nappies. How can we tell?

Men looking confused

NICOLAS (TRAINER): Look from one side, lift up the edge and look in at the bottom. We’ll know straight away…

And it’s terrible. Absolutely terrible. So, we are going to remove this nappy.

AT THIS UNIVERSITY IN BOGOTA, YOUNG MEN ARE GETTING AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCHOOL OF CARE .

NICOLAS: Okay, let’s lift up the edge of the nappy.

A GOVERNMENT RUN PROGRAM THAT TEACHES DOMESTIC SKILLS .

NICOLAS: Put one finger here, and it will help to give it a first clean. With this, we can remove the nappy.

So, remove it yourselves now…

Towards you, roll it up…

Exactly.

Men looking amused doing it

6.

Close-up of trainer teaching a group of young men how to change diapers - ‘unmanly’

ALT TAKES:

SUBREEL 1

T – All right, the cream…. Where do we put it?

MAN – On the bottom, right?

T – It can go on the genitals, no problem...

Men awkwardly rubbing clean on baby genitals

IT’S A RARE CHANCE TO TRY TASKS USUALLY LABELLED AS ‘WOMEN’S WORK’

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NICOLAS: The slogan of the school is “caring can be learnt”. When it’s not natural, we learn.

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Wide of men listening to trainer

In-situ IV with participants

ALT GRABS:

SUBREEL 2

THEY SEEM TO BE A LITTLE OUT OF THEIR COMFORT ZONE

CALLISTE: So, what do you think of the activities here today?

SERGIO: It’s rare that men know these things.
SERGIO: Men leave their homes, they look after the financial side, and women look after the family.

Shots of men using cream, putting diapers on

VICTOR:. I feel that Colombia still is "machista" and they define these as women's issues. So not many men want to get involved in their role of housekeeper.

THE PROGRAM AIMS TO DE-STIGMATIZE CARING DUTIES, LIKE NAPPY CHANGING, IRONING, COOKING AND EVEN COMBING HAIR.

JUAN DAVID (HAIR BRAIDING INSTRUCTOR):

Now, in your bags…

You will find a kit with a few things in it.

First, I would like you to try to untangle the hair.

We go from the top to the bottom

And if, while I’m doing that, and I feel the comb stop, it’s because I haven’t finished untangling.

The technique is from top to bottom.

Men doing hair awkwardly, people laughing

CALLISTE: Which one is your friend here?

YOUNG WOMAN: Points out. David

CALLISTE: I saw you laughing before. Why were you laughing?

YOUNG WOMAN: Because he doesn't know much about it.

CALLISTE: Do men typically know how to do women's hair in Colombia?

YOUNG WOMAN: No. Because we have always been responsible for those things and many other. So, it is interesting to see how they get them to do it in this project. It is super cool.

JUAN DAVID:

We’re going to practise braids. Ready? To start the braid, I take the outside piece and put it in the centre…I tighten it. The central piece moves to the outside and I keep crossing them…

9.

In-situ IV with Henry Murrain (founder of program)

SUBREEL 2

For the program’s founder though, Henry Murrain, the real aim of the classes is radically ambitious.

HENRY:We created this about a year and a half ago as part of our strategy to transform machismo.

CALLISTE: So how are these programs challenging the culture of machismo here?

HENRY: It shows them new ways of expressing manhood, new ways of being a man, and expressing masculinities that are not toxic.

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Actuality

Shots of men cradling babies, doing hair, laughing

In fact, the School is part of Henry’s far-reaching vision to completely redefine what it means to be a man for the next generation.

JUAN DAVID: First I would like to ask you a question. What is your first memory you have of someone combing your hair?

MAN – My mum

H – Your mum…and you?

MAN – My mum

H – Your mum

JUAN DAVID: What comes to mind when you think of your dad? Which emotion arises? One emotion, in one word.

MAN with scarf – Disappointment

H – Okay, good.

MAN 1 – Confidence.

T – You represent literally 84% of men, who answer that love is not an emotion that we feel towards our fathers.

Our theory is that this is because we, men, don’t bond through personal care.

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Shots of men doing hair and nappies

HENRY: We are certain that a society, in which men spend more time with their children, where they recognise themselves as more tender, more caring, will also be a less violent society.

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Archive – news reports and pressers

Set up scale of gender-based violence in Colombia and the government’s attempts to fix it with its anti-machismo agenda

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GVS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq7kyT7qln4

GVS

MUSIC

In Colombia, a woman issexually assaulted every 30 minutes. [2] Every 15 hours, one woman is killed.[3]

MAYOR UPSOT: Violence against women continues to escalate in the country and in Bogota, fuelled by entrenched violent machismo in society. Machismo kills!

Over the last 2 years, incidents have soared –

NEWS REPORTER UPSOT: According to Femicides Observatory Colombia, by the end of 2022, 612 cases of this crime were reported.

Eight women were murdered on Mother’s Day this year. Three were confirmed femicides - a hate crime where a woman is intentionally murdered because she is female.

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Shots of busy Colombian streets

Traffic and trees

IV with Henry

SUBREEL 2

People on streets of Colombia

IV with Henry

IT’S AN ALARMING TREND THAT GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN

HENRY: Bogotá is a city that has advanced a lot in many behavioural aspects. For example, it is one of the capitals with the fewest homicides in Latin America. The rate of traffic accidents has also reduced a lot

But regarding the issue of intimate partner violence and cases of gender violence, we have not had the same improvement.

Despite all that has been done working with women, the situation continues to be like what it was 20 years ago. And this is bizarre.

HENRY BELIEVES RATES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ARE GETTING WORSE BECAUSE OF ONE KEY OVERSIGHT….

The reason is because we have left men out.

During all these years, we have been working only with women.

We have to work with men.

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Daytime – Cal walking on busy street + vox pops/having a coffee with a group of girls

Set up intensity of machismo culture

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GVS

Cal walking

Music

Machismo is so deeply ingrained in Colombia it’s present in nearly every facet of society.

An exaggerated masculine pride, it moves through public spaces and behind closed doors, almost constantly present in workplaces, popular culture and…. on the street.

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Shots of guys looking at Cal on the streets as she walks off

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Cal walking to meet girls at a café/vox-pops on the street

Cutaways of men

CALLISTE: What is the typical Colombian man like here?

WOMAN 3: The typical Colombian man is very macho.

Most men here are into sports, football, parties on the weekend, going out to play pool…

WOMAN 2 – I think they’re also very interested in the physical appearances of women.

WOMAN 6 – They focus a lot on things like if the woman has breasts, if she has a bottom, if she has a small waist, if she’s skinny, fat, all that…

They are very superficial.

CALLISTE: Is the culture of machismo a big problem here?

WOMAN 5

Yes. When we walk, men say “hey, sexy lady” and they think this is the best thing to say. They think we’ll be flattered.

But in reality, you feel…

WOMAN 6 – Degraded

WOMAN 5 – Yes.

WOMAN 6 – And they think that because you dress or act in a certain way, they can access you without your consent, yes?

Shots of men

WOMAN 5 –

As a woman you live very…

WOMAN 6 – cautiously

WOMAN 5 – cautiously, frightened.

Shots of men on streets

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At home with Henry (confirmed)

Intro Henry Murrain, the founder of the program and his own experience with machismo

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External shots of house

SUBREEL 3

Henry cooking, serving food for his kids

Cal watching on

SUBREEL 3

In Colombia, making men the solution is a radical new approach…

HENRY: Take this to cut the salad….

Lore cutting shallots

… AND THE ANTI-MACHISMO STRATEGY WAS DESIGNED BY HENRY MURRAIN, WHO WAS HANDPICKED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

HENRY- Lore, do you want the ramen with or without bacon?

CHILD 2 – No, no, without bacon.

HENRY – Without. And you, Mati?

CHILD 1 – With bacon.

IN-SITU IV:

CALLISTE: So Henry, what are you cooking here tonight, I hear it’s a bit of a family favourite.

HENRY: We’re making ramen, which is their favourite food. Lorenzo really likes it, and so does Matilde.

CHILD 1 – How long it will take? The first time you made it, we finished at 8pm.

HENRY – I won’t cook the pork in the oven. Bacon instead, agree?

HENRY IS A SINGLE DAD TO SON LORENZO AND DAUGHTER MATILDE – AND HE HAS NO PROBLEMS TAKING ON DOMESTIC DUTIES.

HENRY: Cooking for someone you care about is something very enjoyable, something very satisfying, right? So for me, when they eat and like it, it's very rewarding.

CAL - Do you think that your dad is different from other dads?

CHILD 1 – Yes…Because my dad would do anything for us.

CHILD 2 – And his love for us.

CHILD 2 – Also, no dad has such a big beard

CAL – How does your dad show love Lorenzo?

Sometimes at night, he gives Matilde and me foot massages.

CHILD 1 – And he cuddles us when we have nightmares and he helps us to calm down.

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Close ups of kids and Henry around dinner table

For Henry, the battle against machismo , is personal.

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IV

SUBREEL 3

ALT:

HENRY:

I remember at the school I attendedafter class had finished for the day, there were fights after school almost every day.

I was always shorter so they used to beat me up a lot until my older brother said, “you have to learn to defend yourself.” And I remember that when I started to win fights, I would go home crying. It was a horrible feeling. It’s horrible.

HENRY: Men, since childhood, they have been told that they should not show their emotions. If you are a boy and you’re scared, you cannot express it because then you’re not a boy. In Colombia, when a boy expresses pain, doubt, sadness, anguish… he is called “girl”, “don’t be a girl”.

So, what comes from this? Men don’t learn to manage, nor do they learn to express or speak about their emotions. Those feelings get stuck, and the day they explode, it becomes a problem.

According to Henry, it is this extreme emotional volatility that has led to Colombia’s high rates of gender-based violence and femicides.

HENRY IV: Many men, in front of pain, anxiety, insecurity don’t know how to respond with anything but with violence, when it comes to relationship breakups and heartbreak.

Because violence is a masculine trait. Being violent is being a man.

It’s not that they can be violent, they have to be violent.

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Linea Calma hotline

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Internal wides of call center

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Morning actuality

Operator and close ups of phone

Close ups of mouths

Phones ringing

Cal watching on

Different grabs from different operators

SUBREEL 4

DANIELA: Hello, I’m Daniela, Linea Calma psychologist. I’ll accompany you in this sesión. going to accompany you in this orientation. Please let me know if you are at risk or in an emergency situation.

PART OF HENRY’S ANTI-MACHISMO STRATEGY IS THIS CALL CENTRE LINEA CALMA – LITERALLY ‘CALM LINE’

OPERATOR 5; I would like to ask if you or anybody else is at risk?

IT’S FOR MEN WHO NEED HELP IN AN EMOTIONAL CRISIS .

DANIELA: OK, Carlos… Going through a breakup is a grieving process, which is what you are going through, but it’s important to recognise, this is a decisión she’s made.

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Wides and close-ups of operators and people picking up phone calls

IV with operator

SUBREEL 4

The call-centre is operated by expert psychologists .

DANIELLA: The most common issue that we attend to is heartbreak. Men suffer a lot because they don’t know how to manage a breakup. They hold a lot of beliefs about hegemonic masculinity that don’t allow them to face those types of situations calmly. It hits them hard. They have nobody to talk to, and they feel embarrassed.

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UPSOT of operators trying to calm men down…

SUBREEL 4

VIRGINIA: So you’re telling me that your wife left you last Saturday?

How are you feeling today?

Did you say sad?

Well, what you are feeling right now is heartbeak.

So, first, I want you to know you are not alone.

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Henry IV

Cal Q

SUBREEL 5

Phone call centre – wides, close-ups, phones ringing, etc

Walls of call-centre to be used as backdrop of graphics

HENRY STARTED THE HOTLINE AS A PREVENTATIVE TOOL. IT GIVES MEN A NON-JUDGMENTAL AND RATIONAL EAR AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO LASHING OUT .

HENRY IV: The Latin macho man has a tormented, insecure child inside him that lives with the fear that his partner prefers someone else. It’s like a terrifying fantasy.

HENRY IV: It’s why in 56 per cent of occasions where a woman is beaten in Bogota, she is beaten by a jealous partner.

HENRY IV: From there, we started to think about what would happen if we had a conversation at the right time.

What happens if, when a man feels jealous, he can talk to someone before reacting aggressively.

DANIELA: Okay, Carlos, I completely understand your feelings now. However, Carlos, the fact that she is blocking you from her social networks, she’s telling us Carlos, “Hey, give me some space”.

I n its first 6 months of operation, Línea Calma answered 1139 calls, and since opening, now averages 700 phone calls a month. [4]

In-situ IV about how the operators handle the phone calls

DANIELA: You are looking for her, contacting her mother, you are violating her privacy, her life, and her space. You may be creating a situation without being aware or wanting to, but you are harassing her.

IN-SITU IV:

CALLISTE: How do you feel receiving these types of calls?

DANIELA: It’s beautiful but hard. It’s hard because of the emotional burden but in general, it’s very gratifying. And I believe it is working.

Shots of hotline, people responding

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CRITIC

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Calli arrives at university

MUSIC

Henry’s anti-machismo programs are costing the government $300,000US dollars a year and have been met with staunch criticism, from FEMINIST ORGANISATIONS WHO BELIEVE THE MONEY COULD BE BETTER SPENT.

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Cal meeting gender-based violence lawyer / university professor

SUBREEL 7

SUBREEL 1

MARIANA: There is an expression in Spanish that we use in Colombia that says “panitos de agua tibia". It means, for example, when there is a wound, instead of solving the problem, such as an infection, you put put hot water on it so it doesn't hurt. That doesn't solve the situation for at all, but it does make me feel better for a moment. I feel that both the hotline and the ‘School of Care’ make the state feel like they care about the issue, but they don't really do anything to help lower the rates of machismo and they do even less for violence.

Mariana is a defence lawyer and coordinator of Rosario University's law clinic on gender-based violence.

SHE BELIEVES THE PHILOSPHY BEHIND THE SCHOOL OF CARE FOR MEN IS FLAWED

MARIANA: Unfortunately, there is a preconceived idea that the man who helps at home is a good man. And if he washes dishes and is sweet to his daughters, then he will not be violent, and that has absolutely no correlation. There may be a man who is a wonderful father and a spectacular homemaker and still commits acts of violence.

CALLISTE: You deal with perpetrators of these crimes every day in the course of your work. How likely is it that they would pick up the phone and call something like Linea Calma?

MARIANA: It's very, very unlikely.

When I'm about to commit an act of violence, the last thing I'm going to do is call and say, “I'm very upset, I need someone to calm me down,"

The person who is about to be violent is well aware of what they’re doing, they just don't see it as bad, and that’s worrying.

1.

IV

Cal reacts

SUBREEL 7

MARIANA: When you see these cases of attempted femicide or femicide, many times, victims had already approached institutions. They already had reports for domestic violence, personal injuries, threats. And unfortunately, nothing was done.

MARIANA: The state is constantly closing its doors. In cases of sexual violence, we find that 90% of cases end in impunity.

CALLISTE: What is the takeaway then of that for the perpetrators of these crimes?

MARIANA: They can keep doing it.

The violence is getting worse. Now we are seeing in femicide cases, many women who are impaled or burned, tortured.

It is precisely because they are investing in different issues that are not fixing the root of gender-based violence.

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Prison

in prison

26.

Street GVs

Prison exteriors

Despite stern opposition, the government has pushed the School of Care program into male-dominated spaces - companies, universities, soccer stadiums and even - prisons.

27.

SHOTS OF CAL GETTING READY TO ENTER PRISON

I’M ABOUT TO MEET A GROUP OF MEN WHO’VE BEEN LOCKED UP FOR SOME OF THE WORST CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN….WILL THE SCHOOL OF CARE WORK FOR THEM?

28.

AD BREAK

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Cal walking into prison

Cal getting dressed up in jumpsuit

Cal walking off

CALLISTE PTC: So Covid protocols are still in place here at the prison and they’ve asked us to put these jumpsuits on before we can actually go in and meet the prisoners

Cal walking off

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Library establishers

Library shots

Participants

Cal reax

SUBREEL 6

I’M IN A PRISON IN COLOMBIA WHERE A GROUP OF INMATES ARE ABOUT TO LEARN DOMESTIC SKILLS IN AN ATTEMPT TO COMBAT GENDER BASED VIOLENCE.

JUAN DAVID: Today I’m going to teach you how to make plaits and hairstyles. We have four heads. We won’t practise on real people.

INMATE: Ouch!

Juan David laughs

JUAN DAVID: Who wants to be the first four to work with me on plaits and hairstyles?

31.

More actuality of prison program

Cal reax

SUBREEL 6

HENRY IV: These programs have generated a lot of debate in our society. ‘Why work with men?’ ‘Why work with men who are abusive?’

Prisoner struggling to open tools

JUAN DAVID: Open it from the other side…

Prisoners laugh

HENRY IV: Because for men, there is only jail.

JUAN DAVID: Before combing the hair, to avoid damage…

See him running hand through hair

HENRY IV: We wait for them to make a mistake, and then, jail. We cannot wait for it to be like that. We have to think outside the box and think of different solutions.

Cutaway of participants untangling hair

32.

Boardgame activity

SUBREEL 6

33.

In-situ IV with Nicolas (trainer)

SUBREEL 6

NICOLAS: Here, we have a board with different people or materials susceptible to care. For example, here we have a sick person. And here we have an older person with his cane and hunch. We have a pet here.

The player has to put each person in their place by moving and shaking the board.

CALLISTE: And the prisoners, how are they responding. Are they engaged?

NICOLAS: The players have fun, they focus, and we create a very nice feeling.

While the prisoners seem engaged, it’s hard to tell if it’s because Henry’s message is getting through to them or simply because it’s a break from the mundane routine of prison.

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Hair combing actuality

JUAN DAVID: To do the bun, we must be careful with the head, trying to collect all the hair and pull it back. And with your non-dominant hand, grab underneath the hair. Got it? That part is simple. But then what happens?

The technique you have to pracise is to comb the hair, already untangled, open your hand and squeeze again. Comb, open and squeeze...

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Cal PTC

CAL: Prison staff tell me that roughly 70% of inmates here at this prison are accused of sex crimes…

CALLISTE: What do you hope to gain out of this program? Who are you doing it for?

INMATE: I have daughters. I have granddaughters. I have nieces who love me. I want to be there for them. To comb my wife's hair. To love her and honour her

CALLISTE: Do you think this program will have genuine impact for many people in this room?

INAMTE: If they take it seriously, yes.

Some people here are drug addicts, murderers. Some are pimps…bad, bad people. But if they take it seriously, I am sure that, with God's help, and by taking it seriously, this can change a society. Because Colombia is drowning in evil.

Daniel* (not his real name), is awaiting trial. He’s charged with raping a 15 year old.

36.

Henry catch up/Master IV

37.

Henry IV

Henry putting kids to bed

VO: UNDOING GENERATIONS OF ENTRENCHED MACHISMO IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY

IV: When something is very difficult, there is a lot of scepticism. But it could be the greatest dream.

A society in which when we think about men, we remember our fathers with love and affection.

I want Matilde to live in a world where she is respected and that she feels she can express herself without fear.

I hope Lorenzo is not made to fight, that he is not pushed and not forced to make fists, to consider himself a man.

That is like my dream.