Let’s Talk Men 2.0 – new film series exploring South Asian masculinities to be developed

Let’s Talk Men 2.0 is a new film series aimed at drawing boys and men into discussions on gender and violence prevention and encouraging their active participation in building a more gender equitable South Asia.

The new series is based on four films on masculinities that were made in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan in 1998 with the support of UNICEF’s Regional Office for South Asia and Save the Children (UK).
The first regional project of its kind, the series catalyzed a discussion on masculinities and kick-started wide spread engagement on the importance of developing interventions with boys and men on gender issues and specifically on gender-based violence.

The four films made under the previous project (When Four Friends Meet (India), Our Boys (Bangladesh), Listen To The Wind (Nepal), Now That Is More Like A Man (Pakistan)) have been utilized extensively in the last decade for trainings, advocacy and discussion by almost every group working on gender issues across South Asia and beyond.

Let’s Talk Men 2.0 aims to expand the original project and build another body of work that will provide new templates to start fresh discussions on emerging issues related to boys and men and gender-based violence. Filmmakers from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan met in Bangkok recently to collaborate on the new film series, including discussions on emerging concerns as guiding themes for the new films.

The project is being coordinated by Aakar, India, along with Partners for Prevention, which is supporting the regional process of identifying filmmakers and developing themes for the films.

The project welcomes further support for this initiative.