{"id":852,"date":"2015-04-23T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:53:08","slug":"calgary-documentary-says-forced-marriages-arent-too-far-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/calgary-documentary-says-forced-marriages-arent-too-far-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary documentary says forced marriages aren\u2019t too far from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary filmmaker Iman Bukhari is breaking open the hidden reality of forced marriages in Canada in her debut documentary, \u201cForced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bukhari spoke to 10 men and women who had been forced into marriage, all between the ages of 17 and 27, but only one agreed to appear in the film: a girl who was taken to her birth nation and forced into an unwanted marriage at age 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think that because we are in a first-world nation, these things don\u2019t happen here, but they do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[This girl] was a child herself and she went through terrible, terrible things, there was a lot of violence involved, and she was 13 years old \u2013 that\u2019s Grade 7 \u2013 can you imagine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To mark the 10th annual National Victims of Crime Awareness Week, the Calgary Immigrant Women\u2019s Association screened the documentary on Tuesday afternoon at the John Dutton Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/metronews.ca\/news\/calgary\/1346815\/calgary-documentary-says-forced-marriages-arent-too-far-from-home\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary filmmaker Iman Bukhari is breaking open the hidden reality of forced marriages in Canada in her debut documentary, \u201cForced.\u201d Bukhari spoke to 10 men and women who had been forced into marriage, all between the ages of 17 and 27, but only one agreed to appear in the film: a girl who was taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[256,7,4,8,10,255],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-calgary","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-national-victims-of-crime-awareness-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}