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Parliament Girls (2024)

★★ — Parliament Girls (2024)

Parliament Girls is a short film (running just seventeen minutes) from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, one of the smaller English-speaking Caribbean nations and a country with a notably thin screen production history. The film was made by Akley Olton under the Island Rebel Media banner, and appears to be among the first locally produced dramatic shorts to receive any international festival or online circulation from the islands. It arrives at a moment when Caribbean filmmakers are increasingly using low-budget digital production to tackle social issues specific to the region, particularly gender-based violence, which remains a significant and under-discussed problem across many island communities.

A-Z World Movie Tour St Vincent and the Grenadines FIRST LETTERBOXD REVIEW FOR THIS FILM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2EuvhPReXg This is a short film about vigilantism. According to the statistic shown one in 40% of women in the Caribbean will experience violence from their partners. That's a worrying statistic. The film starts off with Shandy (the main character) having dinner and making plans to go out in the evening. Her mum is concerned for her safety (I think because she herself was attacked earlier in life) It was pretty well put together considering St Vincent & The Grenadines don't exactly have a long library of films. The film is clearly made with heart in the right place but I think it's a dangerous message to send and could get more women hurt if we're encouraging them to physically take to the streets, weapon up and attack suspected wrongdoers. I respect the passion and the message but overall it wasn't executed all that well

Rating: ★★ | Year: 2024 | Watched: 2025-08-28

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