The issue of violence against women has been widely debated across sectors, with UN Women referring to it as ‘the shadow pandemic’. To date, however, these works have not adequately addressed the issues of domestic and family violence within the Korean–Australian context. In this project, we have transformed the narrative of Ari (a pseudonym), a Korean woman victim-survivor, into a three-part short film series to raise the awareness of domestic and family violence (DFV) issues amongst the Korean–Australian community. The first part of the film series uses animation to capture Ari’s migration journey to Australia. The second part focuses on Ari’s lived experience of DFV and is presented as a music video. The final part uses a dance video to encapsulate how Ari navigated her post-crisis journey. The film series is produced in Korean, with subtitles in English, Korean and Chinese. Throughout the film series, our aim is to highlight Ari’s resilience, capacity and agency as manifested in her narrative, and to defeat the common cultural stereotypes towards Korean and East Asian women victim-survivors imposed by Australian society. We expect this cross-industry project to shed new light on the little-recognised issues of DFV within the Korean diasporic community and contribute to the growing body of research on the prevention of violence against women.


3 Key Learning:
1. Highlight Ari (a victim-survivor)’s resilience, capacity and agency as manifested in her narrative

2. to defeat the common cultural stereotypes towards Korean and East Asian women victim-survivors imposed by the mainstream society

3. to create new knowledge on the little-recognised issues of DFV within the Korean diasporic community of Australia.

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