ACTIVITIES
Rotary and Rotaract Club Roma Cassia, in partnership with the PRIMA Center and the Cultural Association Music Theatre International – M.Th.I. ETS., have launched the Pr.I.Ma. Project, an area dedicated to those who want to pull back the curtain and look deeply into their inner lives in order to reach a better understanding and create change in themselves to breake the vicious cycle that generates violence.
BRINGING THE PROJECT INTO THE SCHOOL
The project is designed to raise awareness among young people about gender-based violence in order to help them recognize some of the risk factors they must face up to in the context in which they live and also in relations with their peers or adults of reference.
With ad-hoc formats developed in partnership with the Prima Center (former CAM Rome a gender-based violence center) and the association Music Theatre International – M.Th.I. Thanks to the support of these Organizations, actions will be undertaken as follows:
- Meeting with teachers to train on and introduce them to the project methodology so to secure their proactive engagement;
- Administering a pre- and post-questionnaire to assess the impact of the project with potential additional indicators;
- Holding a plenary meeting to screen a film followed by an open discussion and also with the participation of key figures and spokespersons. We believe that cinema is the most powerful weapon we have to unleash our emotions. It can help us in combatting violence against women, which is one of the Project’s goals.
- Sharing the results of the discussion with the teachers and the essays written by the students. A jury will be set up to assess and award the student’s works.
CINEMA AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL
The Rotary Club Roma, host partner of the PR.I.MA (PRevenzione Intervento Maltrattamento- Prevention- Intervenion- Abuse) Project, in partnership with the Prima Center (former CAM Rome a gender-based violence center) and the Music Theatre International – M.Th.I. Association, has considered that cinema, with regard to educational activities in schools, is the most powerful weapon we have to unleash our emotions and can effectively help us in combatting violence against women, which is one of the Project’s goals.
Bearing this in mind, Catello Masullo, a member of the Rotary Club Roma Cassia, has assembled several excerpts from films that deal with this specific theme leaving out explicit scenes of physical violence. A decision based on the simple fact that we’re constantly bombarded with violence so much so that we’ve grown used to it, and most importantly to have a product that can be used in a school setting, even in the presence of minors.
Catello Masullo has focused on what happens “after” an act of violence has been perpetrated,
the impact that violence has on the life and soul of the victim, which is most often devastating. As customary when creating a film “anthology”, the author personally selected the films with the exception of two movies, as shown below, and also took care of its editing. He has tried to present some of the different forms of violence, the most paradigmatic ones, as it is explained film by film below. The theme music is Mozart’s requiem, one of the most beautiful pieces of this sort ever composed.
