EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ Hotstar isn’t done with the Criminal Justice franchise just yet — in fact, it might only just be getting started.
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Jennie Punter Filmmaker and journalist Subina Shrestha’s “Devi”—about Devi Khadka’s journey from surviving wartime rape to fighting alongside rebel guerrillas in Nepal’s civil war to working for justice in her country’s transitional justice movement—lands at Toronto’s Hot Docs as international awareness of and concern about the safety, rights, and health of women in conflict zones around the world intensifies. Last month in the Hague, in opening remarks at the first International Conference of Prosecutors on Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (also referred to as CRSV), U.N.
special representative Pramila Patten noted that the Secretary-General’s annual report for 2023 shows an increase of 49% in the number of cases of CRSV from the previous year. In an exclusive in-person interview with Variety in advance of her film’s world premiere on April 28, Shrestha said that Devi’s story is both unique and universal.
(Devi was scheduled to attend the premiere but her visa was not ready in time.) “Every country that has war has the same stories of sexual violence but they never get attention in reparations,” said Shrestha, noting that the U.N.’s Security Council Resolution 1820—which recognizes the use of sexual violence as a tool or tactic of war and stresses that such crimes should be excluded from amnesty provisions—was only adopted in 2008. “In Nepal, nobody had raised this issue of sexual violence after the civil war ended,” she continued.
“People who were wounded and families of the dead were compensated but people who experienced sexual violence were shunned.” Early in the civil war, which erupted in 1996 between Maoist guerrillas and the monarchy government, Devi was accused of rebellion. She was tortured
.EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ Hotstar isn’t done with the Criminal Justice franchise just yet — in fact, it might only just be getting started.
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Victoria Justice is speaking out for the first time about the Dan Schneider allegations and the Quiet On Set documentary series.
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Justice have reflected on the “very embarrassing” moment that they serenaded Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis with one of his own songs.The French duo – comprised of Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé – looked back at the moment during a new interview with NME for the In Conversation series, in celebration of their new album ‘Hyperdrama’.During the discussion, the pair were asked about their tour documentary Across the Universe, which they shared back in 2008. The electronic group then went on to reveal that they haven’t considered watching the film recently – particularly because of one “embarrassing” moment that caught fans’ attention.“I haven’t seen it since it was released, actually,” de Rosnay said, with his bandmate going on to confirm that he had “seen a bit here and there” since its release 15 years ago.Going on to recall which aspect of the project he keeps seeing, de Rosnay explained: “The bit [that keeps] resurfacing is where I sing ‘Under The Bridge’ to Anthony Kiedis’s face, which was very embarrassing even to do, you know what I mean?He continued, explaining how the awkward moment arose: “Because this documentary was shot in a very short amount of time, we had to have the maximum amount of footage and just, like, make things happen otherwise there would be nothing happening.
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