Support the Silent Beauty Impact Campaign

Dear community,

The Silent Beauty impact campaign will begin this April during Sexual Assault Awareness Month and continue throughout the year with various communities, including Milwaukee, New Orleans, Nezahualcóyotl, and San Salvador.

Building on the strengths of our impact team, and the vision of my family, this program will work with survivors of child sexual abuse, and separately with youth. Through film festival screenings, we've learned how youth want to move this work forward.

In collaboration with partnering organizations from each community, we'll screen Silent Beauty, open a dialogue between survivors, and create art out of experience, and that encourages societal change, just as I was able to do with this film. Ultimately, this work will become a part of the Silent Beauty physical installation, should survivors choose to participate.

More about my journey with survivors:

When I first embarked on the journey to make a film about my family and the child sexual abuse many of us experienced, it was a scary road ahead, to say the least.

In the seven years it took to make this film, there was one constant: survivors rooting me on, telling me I was brave, and encouraging me to push forward. They often expressed what I or my journey meant to them. Our connection was immediate, powerful, and healing.

I'd meet them at film events, through friends, in restaurants, or on trains. They gave me purpose, hope, and community. They were a muse that inspired a film that would reach many. They are the inspiration for the Silent Beauty impact campaign.

This fundraiser will support the next phase of our continued work together—a collaboration between survivors that will bring forth new art and more healing.

With love,

Jasmín Mara López

The Impact Team:

Amada Torruella is a Central American filmmaker, cinematographer, artist, and survivor of CSA based between El Salvador and Southern California. As a storyteller that has grieved cultural loss and displacement due to armed conflict, Amada is passionate about exploring the body-earth territory and nurturing communities through collective storytelling.

Jasmín Mara López is a Mexican-American filmmaker, survivor of CSA, and the director of Silent Beauty. Born in the U.S. with familial roots in México, her childhood was affected by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S.- México border. This instilled in her a strong passion for immigrant rights, youth empowerment, and social change. Jasmín founded Project Luz, which taught Mexican youth to document stories from within their communities, and in turn, encouraged Jasmín to share hers.

To learn more about Silent Beauty, visit our website.

To make a tax-deductible donation outside of this campaign, visit WMM. Please note that our fiscal sponsor keeps 7% of donations.