Project Report
| May 29, 2019
More Chemical Attacks in Syria
By Jane Wells | Executive Director and Filmmaker
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At 3 Generations we have been telling the stories of Syrian victims of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime since 2013. We wish we could say our work is done, but sadly it is not. This week The New York TImes and other publications reported that once again the Assad regime is using chemical weapons against its own citizens. Please watch our videos describing previous chemical attacks: these attacks are cruel. Since April, fighting in and around Idlib - an area where millions of civilians live or are seeking safe harbor - has resulted in the deaths of about 223 civilians. Russian troop involvement only confuses a complex geopolitical disaster.
Over 12 million Syrians have been displaced or become refugees since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011. 3 Generations has told stories of internally displaced Syrians, refugees in Jordan and Lebanon and recently of Yazidi women who were kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by ISIS - collateral damage of this grotesque civil war. We are hard at work finishing up our new series of Yazidi stories - some of the darkest voices to come out of the Syria conflict.
Without your support we could not keep listening, filming and sharing these important stories which must be told and heard. We thank you.
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Feb 27, 2019
Collateral Damage
By Jamie Brandel | Production Manager
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At 3 Generations our mission is to enable survivors of crimes against humanity to tell their stories to the world using film. Since 2013 this has included the stories of those caught up in the Syrian Civil War. To date we have filmed a series of survivor interviews, made a short documentary Three and the feature documentary Lost in Lebanon. In 2019 we are expanding this project to include another community that has become collateral damage in the on-going Syrian conflict: the Yazidis.
Since 2014, after the conquest of parts of Syria and Iraq by ISIS, the Yazidis have become a target of an aggressive ethnic-cleansing campaign - particularly in the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq. Around Sinjar more than 2,000 Yazidis perished in the August 2014 genocide, with more than 6,000 women and children kidnapped and sold into slavery. The UN has reported that “the Yazidi community of Sinjar has been devastated by the ISIS attack. In its aftermath, no free Yazidis [remain] in the Sinjar region. The 400,000-strong community [has] all been displaced, captured, or killed.”
In January we commenced filming the stories of Yazidi women who were sold into sexual slavery by ISIS. They were kidnapped in Northern Iraq and transported to slave markets and sold in Syria. We are honored that they have chosen to share their stories with us and will be bringing them to audiences worldwide over the next 18 months.
Nov 19, 2018
Syrian Refugees Are Still Not Safe To Return Home
By Jamie Brandel | Production Manager
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The brutal civil war in Syria is approaching its eight year. Over six million people are internally displaced, over five and a half million have fled the country, over four hundred thousand have died and one million have been wounded. And yet this crisis has all but disappeared from the news cycle: collateral damage of international politics and our limited attention span. Reports that say it is safe for refugees to return home are both exaggerated and untrue.
Over the last 5 years, 3 Generations has filmed stories of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon: producing the short film THREE, the feature documentary LOST IN LEBANON and additional short videos on our website. We continue to follow the progress of those we have filmed and to make their stories available to broad audiences. We do not forget their suffering and the destruction of this once vital and culturally rich country.
Since its release in Spring 2017, LOST IN LEBANON has toured the globe, playing at film festivals and human rights events, such as one for Humanity House at The Hague. Now, along with THREE, it is available for non-theatrical, educational and community screenings in the USA, Canada and elsewhere. If you have not seen our films and heard the voices of the brave Syrians who shared their stories, please consider setting up a screening in your community. These stories are more vital than ever.
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