Consensual: Join the conversation

** Note: This event has been postponed until August and we will send through further details soon.

Please join us in August for this special panel event, which will include: 

• A preview of the work-in-progress documentary Consensual
• An open discussion with Chanel Contos and the filmmakers about their plans for the film, with an opportunity to share ideas
• An important conversation about consent in our culture, envisioning a world where normalised sexual violence is eradicated

We will also discuss how you can screen films like these in your community to encourage awareness and discourse, using Documentary Australia's DocAccess resource. 

This event is for year 9-12 students and their parents and carers. 

Consensual

When Chanel Contos put a post up on social media asking for a count of those who had experienced sexual assault perpetrated by those who had attended Sydney private schools, she was inundated with testimonies and catapulted to the forefront of the international consent movement. The issue of teaching consent landed on the national agenda and a new cultural moment was born. Now a documentary is being made and we'd love to share details about it with the community, to imagine a new path that centres on enthusiastic consent, mutual pleasure and healthy intimacy. Consensual interrogates the system, but will be kind to those within it, bringing everyone along for the ride. Using a ‘love, not shame’ approach, Chanel is on a quest to eradicate normalised sexual violence and shift the cultural discourse so that it centres on enthusiastic consent.

Documentary Australia

Since 2008, Documentary Australia has been Australia’s only not-for-profit organisation committed to fostering social change through documentary storytelling. Our purpose is to advance awareness and inspire action on critical social issues by supporting film teams and impact partners in placing documentaries at the heart of social impact campaigns and engaging broad audiences in initiatives for positive change. 

DocAccess

DocAccess is a resource to help communities and organisations find and screen relevant documentaries across ten different issue areas. 

This free resource includes:

• Curated playlists of documentary films
• Step-by-step instructions for planning your screening event
• Practical tools and resources to run impactful screening events and use documentary as a tool for change

This event is proudly supported by Woollahra Municipal Council and Ascham School.