Say Something
Short film Completed 2015
Isabell grew up witnessing her mother’s boyfriend beating her mother. Say Something is a coming of age documentary where the young person’s teenage years has been characterised by witnessing violence. We follow the relationship between mother and daughter as they struggle not only to communicate but also to understand and forgive. Will her mother listen, and will they be able to reconcile?
Say Something joins My life my lesson as the completing part in a documentary diptych on children growing up in domestic violence.
Åsa Ekman, Oscar Hedin and Anders Teigen brings us a powerful, intimate and unflinching story about a girl who is trying to make peace with the past and at the same time chase her dreams. The film was presented at the IDFA Forum 2014, the same year as My life my lesson premiered in mid-length competition at the same festival. Say Something world premiered in Panorama at IDFA 2015.
Outreach supported:
We will create a digital platform that is intended to function as a translator moving the films from being films towards a campaign; making children growing up in domestic violence heard and seen. Parallell to this we will work with youth screenings and create a meeting point for children and politicians.
Crew
Asa Ekman
Director
The director Åsa Ekman latest film, A Mother’s Comeback (2011) premiered at the Göteborg International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary and won the prize for Best Swedish Feature Film. Her short film It's all about Edith (2006) got the Jury’s Honorary Award at Tempo Documentary Film Festival. In her short film Player vs. Romeo (2006) Ekman portrayed teenage boys from the suburb of Fittja. Her Dragkingdom of Sweden (2002) is a cult movie amongst the HBTQ scene as well as part of the course literature of gender studies at several universities.
About the production company
Film and Tell is a film company founded by award winning director and producer Oscar Hedin, with a staff of three working full-time with the production and distribution of documentary films. Film and Tell make projects that engage, entertain and create food for thought, but perhaps most importantly, films that aim to create positive change - Film for Change. The company released its first documentary in 2013, the short documentary Go Straight Home (11´), directed by Maud Nycander (Palme) and Iga Mikler (Eating Lunch). Film and Tell is currently working on two documentaries aiming to raise the issue of children living in violence, both presented at Idfa, one in mid-length competition and the other at the Forum. At present, Film and Tell has a strong slate of seven projects in development and production.
