Violet Gave Willingly

Violet Gave Willingly is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Claire Sanford and released in 2022. A profile of her mother, textile artist Deborah Dumka, the film centres on their conversations about the sexism and misogyny that Dumka encountered when she went to university to study electrical engineering in the 1970s.[1]

Violet Gave Willingly
Directed byClaire Sanford
Produced byClaire Sanford
StarringDeborah Dumka
CinematographyClaire Sanford
Edited byClaire Sanford
Milena Salazar
Music bySophia Sanford
Production
company
Toolshed Creative
Release date
  • April 30, 2022 (2022-04-30) (Hot Docs)
Running time
23 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film takes its title from the use of the sexist "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly" as a mnemonic for memorizing the order of the colours in resistors.[1] The film had been in development for several years, with an excerpt from it highlighted by the International Documentary Association in November 2017 to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women,[1] despite the full film not being theatrically released until 2022.

The film had its public premiere at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[2] It was later screened at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival, where Sanford won the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Short Film from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.[3]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.[4]

References
  1. "Tortuga Films collabore à un court-métrage mis à l’honneur à Los Angeles". L'Avantage, November 25, 2017.
  2. "PLUSIEURS OEUVRES QUÉBÉCOISES PRÉSENTÉES À HOT DOCS". Québec Cinéma, April 8, 2022.
  3. Dana Gee, "Rodéo wins the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Feature at Whistler Film Festival". North Bay Nugget, December 14, 2022.
  4. Pat Mullen, "Three Feature Docs Make Canada’s Top Ten". Point of View, December 8, 2022.


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