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Silent Beauty (2022)
Directed by Jasmín Mara López
Documentary · 1h 27m
When director Jasmin Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, she is flooded by painful memories of her own childhood sexual abuse at his hands—and the following 24 years of her silence. In this cinematically striking and poetic documentary, López bravely films her story as a willful act to accept difficult truths while finding beauty in the process of healing. As she defies the cultural silence that pervades her family and confronts her abusive grandfather, who is a Baptist minister, a world of generational abuse unfolds, and she quickly discovers she is not alone. Through archival family footage and intimate moments with her family, López has created a film about confronting painful truths and the beauty one can feel when they reach the other side of grief.
Crew
- Director
- Jasmín Mara López
- Director of Photography
- Bron Moyi
- Original Music Composer
- Gil Talmi
- Editor
- Sarah Garrahan
- Producer
- Jasmín Mara López
Details
- Release date
- 2022-05-03
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- Malta, Mexico, United States of America
- Production
- Corazón Oscuro Productions, Black Public Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, ITVS