BRATTLEBORO — The Women's Freedom Center presents a free screening of HBO's new feature-length documentary, “Private Violence” at New England Youth Theatre on Friday, Sept. 26, at 6:30 p.m.
Kit Gruelle, an advocate featured in the film, will speak at the screening.
“Private Violence” is more than a documentary; it's an audience engagement campaign exploring what producers call “a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home.”
Every day in the United States, the program announcement reads, at least four women are murdered by abusive (and often, ex) partners. The kneejerk response is to ask, “Why doesn't she just leave?”
“Private Violence” aims to shatter the brutality of this logic. Through the eyes of two survivors - Deanna Walters, a mother seeking justice for the crimes committed against her at the hands of her estranged husband; and Gruelle, an advocate who seeks justice for all women - viewers will bear witness to the complicated and complex realities of intimate partner violence.