Child Psychology Interview
Understanding trauma, disclosure and healing
Breaking the Silence Feature Film
🎬 Breaking the Silence
A film about truth, trauma, and the possibility of healing.
Breaking the Silence is a feature documentary exploring child sexual abuse, the silence that allows it to remain hidden, and the journey towards healing. Beginning with director Serena Aurora's own experience, the film brings together survivor testimonies, expert perspectives and different approaches to healing from around the world. At its heart is a question: What happens when we stop looking away?
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BREAKING THE SILENCE Feature Documentary | Approx. 90 min Director: Serena Aurora Production: Aurora’s Eye Films India / International Status: Final Post-Production Seeking: Distribution, Festival, Screening & Impact Partners
Breaking the Silence
What allows abuse to remain hidden?
Silence. Shame. Fear. Power. Disbelief. Breaking the Silence looks beyond individual experiences to explore the conditions that allow child sexual abuse to remain unseen — within families, communities and institutions. This is not only a film about what happened. It is a film about what we do next.
THE JOURNEY BEHIND THE FILM
Filmed across countries, communities and healing spaces.
Art Therapy
Exploring healing through creative expression
Art & Healing
Exploring creativity, expression and healing
Child Protection at Enfold
Conversations on child protection and prevention
Education & Prevention
Education, awareness and protecting children
Breaking the silence poster
From silence towards awareness and change
Original Score Recording
Creating the original score for the documentary
Healing Through Water
Exploring movement, the body and healing
Sandplay Therapy
Healing and expression beyond words
🌍 The Film
THE DOCUMENTARY
One survivor’s journey becomes a search for understanding. Beginning with director Serena Aurora’s own experience of childhood sexual abuse, Breaking the Silence asks a difficult question: How does abuse remain hidden — and what does it take to heal? The film brings together survivors from different cultures and backgrounds with people working across child protection, psychology, trauma, prevention and healing. It explores the forces that allow abuse to remain hidden — secrecy, shame, fear, power and the failure of adults and institutions to recognise or respond to what is happening. But the journey does not end with trauma. Through psychotherapy, somatic practices, movement, sound, art and other approaches to healing, the film explores how survivors can begin to reconnect with their bodies, their voices and their lives. Breaking the Silence is ultimately a film about responsibility — and what becomes possible when we are willing to listen. This keeps everything important from your current version, but reads more cleanly and with more emotional progression.
THE FILM IS NEARING COMPLETION. NOW WE ARE BUILDING THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WILL HELP IT REACH THE WORLD.
DISTRIBUTION & SALES We are seeking documentary distributors, impact distributors, broadcasters, streaming and educational platforms interested in bringing Breaking the Silence to international audiences. SCREENINGS & IMPACT PARTNERS We want the film to become a starting point for meaningful conversations. We welcome partnerships with child-protection organisations, NGOs, survivor-support organisations, therapists, educators and community groups interested in hosting screenings and facilitated discussions. FUNDING & SUPPORT Support at this stage will help us complete post-production and build the film's distribution, outreach and impact campaign. INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH US? GET IN TOUCH
🔥 Why This Film Matters
The conversation cannot end at awareness
Child sexual abuse survives through silence — within families, institutions and communities. Awareness matters. But awareness alone does not protect a child, support a survivor or change the conditions that allow abuse to remain hidden. Breaking the Silence asks what happens after we know. How do we listen? How do we protect? How do we respond? And how do we create communities where difficult truths can be spoken? The film does not claim to have all the answers. It asks us to stop looking away long enough to begin the conversation.
🌱 More Than a Film — a Conversation Starter
THE FILM ENDS. THE CONVERSATION BEGINS.
We want Breaking the Silence to be more than something audiences watch. We are developing the documentary as a catalyst for carefully facilitated conversations around child protection, trauma, healing and our collective responsibility towards children. Screenings can be accompanied by discussions, expert panels, workshops and locally relevant resources. We are looking for organisations around the world who want to bring these conversations into their communities.
NGOs & Organisations
- Survivor-support & safeguarding organisations
- Women's organisations
- Trauma and mental health practitioners
- Community facilitators
👉 For organisations that can host screenings and support safe, facilitated conversations.
Distribution Partners
- Impact distributors
- Film festivals
- Educational platforms
- Broadcasters
👉 To help bring the film to audiences internationally.
Supporters & Funders
- Individuals
- Foundations
- Grants & impact investors
👉 To support final post-production, outreach and release.
COULD YOU HELP THIS FILM REACH AN AUDIENCE?
THE FILM IS ALMOST READY. NOW WE NEED TO GET IT SEEN.
We are building the international network that will carry Breaking the Silence into the world. If you are a distributor, broadcaster, festival programmer, impact organisation, educator, funder or community interested in the film, we would love to hear from you. CONTACT SERENA AURORA REQUEST THE FILM DECK / PRESS MATERIALS
📩 Contact us: Serena_aurora@auroville.org.in
🌐 Website: auroraseyefilms.com
“The opposite of abuse is not silence. It is community.”
Community begins with you and I.
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The film is almost complete. The next step is reaching audiences. We are building partnerships around distribution, festivals, community screenings, education and impact. Host a screening. Partner with the film. Support its completion. Help us find its audience.
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