In an effort to express the idea, without triggering the trauma, Niu and Campbell pitched ideas back and forth and ultimately settled on using a visual metaphor of the perpetrators shadow to suggest the assault without explicitly stating what happened.
“I had to really get to the core of everything that made me be who I am today,” Campbell said. She was initially given a life sentence at age 36, and ended up spending over 16 years locked up.
“To just write and write, and then go over it and determine what I wanted to keep and what I didn't want to keep. It was very empowering to be able to do that,” Campbell said.
The final videos were presented at an event in L.A. last year, as well as a screening inside California Institute of Women (CIW).
For Campbell, the process was like a dream come true. She screened her film at CIW — the same place where she used to be a lifer.
At the CIW event, both women inside and outside shared monologues of their experiences. “It was just a really rewarding experience for me, it just made me open up wider and have more compassion for people," Campbell said.
Campbell now does standup comedy and is an entertainer in her free time, and drug and alcohol counselor during the day. "I'm a successful substance abuse counselor, free from drugs. And I'm making it. I'm doing everything that I never thought I would do," she said.
Ligons said she still wants to continue acting and telling stories, “No matter what your situation … or how people feel about you, tell your story.”
She added: "people who have been traumatized mentally, emotionally and physically need to open up and just let people know that this is what really goes on.”
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