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Campaign Don’t Skip: Don't skip gender based violence
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The “Don't Skip” digital campaign seeks to raise awareness in society, especially to young people, so that we don’t skip the daily incidents of gender based violence and sexism. The campaign is part of the "SPEAK: Legal Support and Raising Awareness of Gender Based Violence" program and was implemented in two parts (2018, 2019). It was supported by Papastratos.
2019
Spot campaign, April 2019
"GIRLS NIGHT OUT"
Advertising - Production Agency: Akran one-stop Creative Agency Producer - Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Copywriter: Katia Papaioannou Co-producer: Kalliopi Panagiotidou Co-partner: Hellenic Film Academy Cast: Markos Papadokostantakis, Nadia Margariti, Aggelikh Zisoudi, Christina – Kallirroi Garbi, Ilektra Fragiadaki Extras: Prince Khan, Daniel Dani, Nikos Gelia, Aulona Lupa, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Rinos Tzanis, Eleni Molfeta, Eva Goulakou, Nikos Tsemperopoulos, Ioanna Theou, Violeta Tseli Director: Manolis Mavris D.o.P: Giorgos Frentzos Art Direction/Costumes: Maria Papadopoulou Editing: Smaro Papaevagelou Sound Design: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos Make-up: Kiriaki Melidou Production Manager: Denia Safari Assistant of Production: Marios Zervas Second Assistant Camera: Dragan Nikolic DIT: Vaso Micheloudaki Gaffer: Damianos Timnios
"GIRLS NIGHT OUT"
Advertising - Production Agency: Akran one-stop Creative Agency Producer - Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Copywriter: Katia Papaioannou Co-producer: Kalliopi Panagiotidou Co-partner: Hellenic Film Academy Cast: Markos Papadokostantakis, Nadia Margariti, Aggelikh Zisoudi, Christina – Kallirroi Garbi, Ilektra Fragiadaki Extras: Prince Khan, Daniel Dani, Nikos Gelia, Aulona Lupa, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Rinos Tzanis, Eleni Molfeta, Eva Goulakou, Nikos Tsemperopoulos, Ioanna Theou, Violeta Tseli Director: Manolis Mavris D.o.P: Giorgos Frentzos Art Direction/Costumes: Maria Papadopoulou Editing: Smaro Papaevagelou Sound Design: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos Make-up: Kiriaki Melidou Production Manager: Denia Safari Assistant of Production: Marios Zervas Second Assistant Camera: Dragan Nikolic DIT: Vaso Micheloudaki Gaffer: Damianos Timnios
Learn to
recognize it

Gender based violence is an everyday, global phenomenon that affects the majority of women and girls, but also people LGBTQI+ people. It involves the use of established or assumed power-rank and is used as a means of exercising social control, punishment and "correction" of women and those who defy the norms of the social sex. It is distinguished from other forms of violence, as it stems from the historically established inequality between men and women, inequality that leads to a series of discrimination against the latter.

GBV has many forms: verbal, physical, psychological / emotional abuse, economic violence, sexual harassment, rape, human trafficking, stalking, etc. Gender based violence occurs both in acts and threats causes physical, psychological and sexual trauma on its victims. At its extreme it can lead to femicide. It takes place in both the private and the public sphere (home, work, mass transportation etc.) in a family, friendly or working environment. Gender based violence in all its forms is a criminal offense and is severely punished by Greek law.

The majority of Greek society considers that gender based violence is a phenomenon that belongs to the past, to other countries, to different cultures. Aiming to transform these perceptions and offer more visibility to the extent of the phenomenon in Europe, we chose to present the statistics from the research carried out by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA, 2014). This is the world's largest survey of violence against women, with 42,000 participants aged 18 to 74.

2018
"DON'T SKIP"
Agency: WeThePeople Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Cast: Errikos Litsis Director: Panagiotis Karamitsos DoP: Panagiotis Kipriotis Producer: Lisa Apostolou Production Assistant: Emre Brooks Editing: Panagiotis Kipriotis Sound Design: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Spot campaign, July 2018
"DON'T SKIP"
Agency: WeThePeople Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Cast: Errikos Litsis Director: Panagiotis Karamitsos DoP: Panagiotis Kipriotis Producer: Lisa Apostolou Production Assistant: Emre Brooks Editing: Panagiotis Kipriotis Sound Design: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Don't skip it

The social environment often skips gender based violence incidents. Very often, victims rather than perpetrators are considered to be responsible and accused for being violated. In many surveys, survivors of gender based violence reported that have been discouraged, faced with cautiousness and received a lack of understanding, when they sought help from the family, work environment, or even government agencies (eg police, judicial authorities).

Friends, neighbors, relatives, although they often see, hear, know, suspect that a woman can be a victim of domestic violence, refuse to get involved, considering it to be a "private affair".

In this way a collective culture of tolerance is established, causing the perpetrators to reproduce, unpunished, violent and abusive behaviors. Victims of GBV on the contrary, remain in abusive relationships, in fear of not only the retaliation of the perpetrator, but also stigmatization, social isolation and lack of safety both for themselves and their children.

Given the fact that most European states have neither complete nor comparative data to the extent and the nature of the phenomenon, it is clear that gender based violence remains an "invisible" phenomenon.

Diotima Center, through the "Don’t Skip" campaign, aimed towards offering visibility and contributing to the formation of a zero tolerance collective culture. The contribution of all of us is necessary, in order to eradicate gender based violence.

"CINEMA"
Agency: WeThePeople Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Cast: Romanna Lobach, Pavlos Iordanopoulos Director: Alexis Koukias - Pantelis DoP: Fotis Mitsis Producer: Panagiotis Karamitsos Production Manager: Lisa Apostolou Costume-Set Design: Gaffer & Fluf (Katerina Vamvaka – Kostas Patzias) Sound: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos Hair-Make up: Sissi Petropoulou Production Assistants: Panagiotis Kipriotis, Emre Brooks Gaffer: Giannis Fotakis Set Photographer: Kostis Lieros Editing: Panagiotis Kipriotis Sound Design: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Spot campaign, June 2018
"CINEMA"
Agency: WeThePeople Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Cast: Romanna Lobach, Pavlos Iordanopoulos Director: Alexis Koukias - Pantelis DoP: Fotis Mitsis Producer: Panagiotis Karamitsos Production Manager: Lisa Apostolou Costume-Set Design: Gaffer & Fluf (Katerina Vamvaka – Kostas Patzias) Sound: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos Hair-Make up: Sissi Petropoulou Production Assistants: Panagiotis Kipriotis, Emre Brooks Gaffer: Giannis Fotakis Set Photographer: Kostis Lieros Editing: Panagiotis Kipriotis Sound Design: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Spot campaign, June 2018
"BOX"
Agency: WeThePeople Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Cast: Nikos Drosopoulos, Katerina Koutsogeorgopoulou Director: Alexis Koukias-Pantelis DoP: Φώτης Μήτσης Producer: Panagiotis Karamitsos Production Manager: Lisa Apostolou Costume-Set Design: Gaffer & Fluf (Katerina Vamvaka – Kostas Patzias) Sound: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos Hair-Make up: Sissi Petropoulou Production Assistants: Panagiotis Kipriotis, Emre Brooks Gaffer: Giannis Fotakis Set Photographer: Kostas Lieros
"BOX"
Agency: WeThePeople Creative Director: Romanna Lobach Cast: Nikos Drosopoulos, Katerina Koutsogeorgopoulou Director: Alexis Koukias-Pantelis DoP: Φώτης Μήτσης Producer: Panagiotis Karamitsos Production Manager: Lisa Apostolou Costume-Set Design: Gaffer & Fluf (Katerina Vamvaka – Kostas Patzias) Sound: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos Hair-Make up: Sissi Petropoulou Production Assistants: Panagiotis Kipriotis, Emre Brooks Gaffer: Giannis Fotakis Set Photographer: Kostas Lieros
Contest

Diotima Center has launched a short film competition, titled "Young women and men artists, against women’s violence”: Don’t Skip" (18/4 to 31/08/2018). Our pursuit was for artists (18 to 30 years old) to participate, to share their fresh cinematic look and to raise awareness among our fellow citizens. Eleven films took part in the contest. The jury composed of Eva Stefani (director), Evi Karabatsou (director), Despina Tsouma (communication consultant - representative of CRWI Diotima), awarded the prize (€ 1,000) to Dimitris Ballotta's and Claudia Cornea’s "Everything is Fine", while the audience award (1000 Euros), was granted to the short film "Our Bodies", created by Polyxeni Fotopoulo.

Short film competition
Jury award, Everything is Fine, Dimitris Ballotta and Claudia Cornea’s
Αudience award, Our Bodies, Polyxeni Fotopoulo