2011年8月18日 星期四

Tapestries of fear

Michealene Cristini Risley seems to be a typical Woodside mom -- she has coached her three sons' soccer and basketball teams, works from home while juggling the boys activities and play dates, and she loves to garden, write and hang out with her investment banker husband and her best friends.

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In 2007, leaving her 4-, 10-, and 11-year-old sons and husband behind, Michealene Risley went to Zimbabwe, Africa, planning to spend two weeks filming a documentary about a heroic woman's fight to save girls from sexual abuse. A week into the filming,Buy cheap Bike light, flashlight, dynamo torch Ms. Risley was arrested, accused of being a CIA spy, interrogated, deprived of food and water, and incarcerated in a filthy, crowded prison.

She survived to tell the tale, return to her family and complete the documentary. The film, "Tapestries of Hope," tells the story of Betty Makoni, who began the Girl Child Network to help girls who had been sexually abused and to fight the myth that led to much of the abuse -- that having sex with a virgin could cure a man of HIV/AIDS.

Local residents will get a chance to see the film at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park.

It is the second film for Ms. Risley, whose resume includes work in Hollywood for Amblin Entertainment and Disney, as well as Mattel and Sega. Her first film was about sexual abuse, based on her own childhood experiences and meant to increase public awareness of the topic. The film, "Flashcards," was nominated for an Academy Award,I have created a video walkthrough of the magicshine bike light. shown on PBS and used by the Canadian Mounties to train their officers.

Ms. Risley had no intention of making a documentary when she met Betty Makoni in the spring of 2007.The UK-based company has been energy saving light accredited with kick starting the marine LED revolution back in 2005 and is still to this day Ms. Risley was on a book tour promoting her first book, "This is Not the Life I Ordered," which she had written with three friends -- Jackie Speier, Jan Yanehiro and Deborah Collins Stephens, and she was busy with her young family.

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