Output details

Anu Kiro

Commissioned by War Child and shown in Community Centres throughout Uganda.

'Anu Kiro' (2011) was a Lynchpin production commissioned by WarChild UK about gender-based violence (GBV). It involved contributions from young people from Karamoja, North East Uganda. The film was a collaboration between producer Siobhan Fenton and Ellie Land. The team worked in both Uganda and the UK, adopting a strategy of getting young people to express their feelings about GBV through the story of Rose. Rose’s story is a common one, but it touches on some very taboo subjects in Karamojong culture. The charity Warchild engages with a series of methodologies and strategies in changing the awareness and behaviour of the people in the rural areas of Uganda. Using stop-frame animation with puppets to create an impact on the lives of rural Africans the film utilises the medium of animated film co-created by the communities. 'Anu Kiro' includes animation from children and professionals. Owing to time constraints in Uganda, filming and animation were undertaken in the UK using narratives outlined by the children. The film relies upon an interplay between the animation of the professionals and the children by the continuous use of puppets in the narrative. The film raised awareness of the issues around GBV while WarChild aimed to improve services for those who do experience GBV by giving information to health centre staff, informing them about how to work with child survivors of GBV.