Period poverty: a journey through the pain, struggle and taboo
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- čas přidán 5. 11. 2019
- Unable to afford proper menstrual products, Chloe is constantly faced with anxiety and humiliation; this is not the first time this has happened and it won’t be the last.
'Absent' is based on multiple true stories and made in association with Freedom4girls. It aims to raise awareness around period poverty in the UK. Read more here: dazd.co/33n3Cl5
Short film for the charity, Freedom4girls @freedom4girls
Freedom4Girls: www.freedom4girls.co.uk/
PRODUCTION COMPANY - DOG EAT DOG
@dogeatdogproductions
Dog eat Dog Prod.: dedpro.co/
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CAST:
IMOGEN KING as CHLOE @imogentking
LUCY THACKERAY as MUM
KAINE ZAJAZ as JOSH @kainezajaz
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SUPPORTING CAST:
BRANDON HOWARD
DANIEL PHELAN
MUHITH SYED
ROSELLA CODARDO
LUCA ALVES
LEANNE FALLOWS
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CREW :
DIRECTOR - LIBBY BURKE WILDE @libbyburkewilde
WRITER - LUCY MACCARTHY @lucy_mac________
PRODUCER - HARVEY ASCOTT @harvs31
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - MARK O’SULLIVAN
CINEMATOGRAPHER - MOLLY MANNING WALKER @maamw
EDITOR - SARAH PECZEK @sarah_peczek
ART DIRECTOR - JAMES JANNA BARTLETT @jannabartlett
PRODUCTION MANAGER - GABY CODARDO @gabyinproduction
LOCATION MANAGER - HAL O’SULLIVAN @hal.work
1ST AD - BEN KESWICK
GAFFER - ERIC COOPER
SOUND RECORDIST - JONATHAN MITCHELL
STYLIST - NINA SOBERS @ninasobers
MAKEUP ARTIST - ROBYN ROWAN @robynrowan_hairmakeup
COLOURIST - JAX HARNEY @jaxharney
GRADE HOUSE - CHEAT
CASTING DIRECTOR - EMMA GARRETT @garrettcasting
1st AC - VLASSIS SKOULIS
1st AC - CALVIN DAY
2nd AC - LUCY BRADLEY
DATA WRANGLER - LEWIS ABOTT
2ND AD - JOSEY JACOBS
RUNNER - HARRY CULVERHOUSE
RUNNER - JACK FREEMAN-BELL
RUNNER - LUCINE CANEL
RUNNER - SAM BARNHAM
MEDIC - PAUL MORTIMER
MEDIC - SOPHIE TRENT
BTS STILLS - HANNAH RHODES
MUSIC & AUDIO POST - MCASSO @mcassomusic
COMPOSER - MIKE MACLENNAN
AUDIO POST - TOM MARTIN
POST HOUSE - UNIT
ONLINE - ROB ELLIS
CAMERA & GRIP EQUIPMENT - PANAVISION
LIGHTING EQUIPMENT - PRO LIGHT LONDON
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Him giving her the hoodie both broke and warmed my heart so much.
Im proud to say my son took part in this short film and its such a good promo
@Finley Cullen Stop with the slelf promo
Masha Allah 🕊️
What an AMAZING SON you must have... You must be so PROUD...
GOOD JOB MAMA... 😘
He was very good
@@Vaemaraj_ don’t be mean this person is just proud of there son
@@charlottemckee4332 finley culley is someone else woth a different user they mean them
Wish all boys were like that. There's no shame in periods.
Sanitary products should also be payed by the government or at least be cheaper!!
They should be free, no person should need to pay for something they can’t help
Same
@@miahgarmon3720 Speaking facts.
@@miahgarmon3720 How can they be free... Someone's got to put in hours and hours of hard labor just to design and create product and organize an ENTIRE company and pay it's employees?
Not sure how that would happen?
Though if the Government pays for it... aren't the people paying for it indirectly?
@@miahgarmon3720 Exactly.
I keep a "take what you need, give what you can" box in my bathroom. It has all manner of fem hygiene products, pregnancy and ovulation tests, condoms, drug testing strips and other bits in it. I encourage EVERYONE to do the same. You never know who is in need, they could be closer to you than you think
rickyspeople you keep a stash of ovulation tests? That’s a bit paranoid
I will. Great idea and kind thought 🥰
Good idea 😂
That’s sweet
Do you include vaginal itching cream?
I wanted to hug and thank that young man even though I know it's scripted, it's just refreshing to see sensitive and kind young men portrayed this way. I also wanted to give that young lady a lifetime supply of pads and tampons. It's shocking to me that someone cannot afford the basic necessity of menstrual products!
I’m so thankful that my mom can afford these things 🙏🏼
This is awful, I'm very lucky in that I can go to the shops and pick up sanitary products, but for a lot of girls it's not an option.
I was really impressed by the level of maturity and kindness displayed by the young man who noticed the stain.
Beautiful actress! well done. This can't have been an easy role to do.
The guy who gave her the hoodie is lovely , need more people like him in the world
My daughter who is 10 started her period....her school was HORRIBLE in understanding something as small as letting her go 2 the bathroom 2 change herself....she didnt.want boys 2.know.....its hard when the.schools suck....
I’m so sorry periods is as normal as sun rising and setting I’m so sorry that your school didn’t understand that no matter what people say having your period is a gift from god never forget that. 😊
😡🤬😡
Incredibly important. Period poverty is present all over the world, in both developed and developing countries. I'm working on compiling research to do a study in my city in the U.S. on the level of unmet need present with regards to obtaining menstrual products. At least within the States, there seems to be very little research on menstrual poverty and initiatives developed to address the issue.
I remember when i got my period i was mistreated so badly by my female family.. I lived with my grandmother so she never wanted to buy me pads and if i asked i got curssed out she would embarrass me in the store yelling about she wasn't go to buy pads so i would have to use tissue and i had a lot of accidents at school which was even more embarrassing because of girls talking shit .. Smh i would never make a girl feel like i did
I’m so sorry! 😢😔 no one deserves to be treated like that
Srsly FEMALES?! I'm so sorry u had to go through that it's so ignorant
I’m so sorry, because no one should be treated like that. Having your period is a pure and beautiful gift and no one should make it hard. I’m rootin’ for period veterans and everyone who’s suffering with period poverty. 🤗
Im so sorry, you didn't deserve that. Your grandma is horrible.
i’m truly so sorry. that so horrible idk why she’ll even do that
Great video! At Morrison supermarket Customers in need can now go to any Morrisons customer service desk nationwide and ask for a package for ‘Sandy’ or a ‘period product pack’. The customers will then be given a free discreet envelope with sanitary products and no questions asked.👍👏👏👏
An important subject and beautiful short!
In my mother's time she and her sisters used rags - then washed and reused them. They were very poor (Depression days) but they had coverage. I believe the rags were held in place with a safety pin.
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My mom too. She said they boiled them on the stove to get them clean.
This is where the term “on the rag” originated 😕
Beautiful short and sad reality many have to face every month,, I always leave spares in bathrooms when I can, you never know how it’s going to change someone’s day
Dee V same I always keep spare incase anyone needs some
That's so kind of you
I can help stock you guys up on some I can send them
❤💛❤
I've had to use toilet paper as a pad before, but I'm blessed in that I've never had heavy period bleeding so it actually worked out OK. But I could afford pads! I just hadn't remembered to keep them stocked so it would be like one day max, I couldn't imagine having to use toilet paper through a while period because I couldn't afford any pads! Poor girl 😔
I don’t live in the UK but in case at school I carry heaps a fair load of menstrual hygiene products with me so if a friend needs one cause she either forgot it or got her first day then I’m like here take it go and do what you need to do even tho I haven’t gotten my womanly days yet I still carry things in case for me and friends and girls who need things
I can stock whoever up ❤💛❤
What a sweet man who helped her. He's going to heaven for sure. Xoxo
This short video was very touching to the heart. This is the bitter truth of world.
Period stuff shouldn't be so expensive,! Having said that just fyi if you get supermarket own brand ones they can be cheap, also wilko own brand are really cheap, "press on towels" - about 50p or less for a pack
I know the pain of this. Great short.
Great acting from Brandon Howard
Surviving vs. Thriving. We need to have a world that we can thrive in. Women have always had to carry extra burdens, only because we are women.
I wish I was their to give her a pad or something I feel so bad for her and the boy was so nice
It's very sad to see that in a developed country like UK having this kind of picture! Even in India, government has organised many camp to distribute sanitary napkins to girls and some NGOs also.
When I was in my puberty my mom gave me pieces of white cotton clothes to use and reuse it after washing with soap, though we are not a very poor family but the concept of pads were not so clear and even not available at that time.
This is England, only one part of the UK in other parts of the UK like Scotland sanitary pads are free to anyone who needs them.
This is such a good point that more people need to become aware of but as soon as you say menstrual products should be free everyone else starts listing all the other things that need to be free but this would be a great starting point.
What a fine young man.
just brilliant; touched me ❤️
mucha mierda
That young man was so nice
Sanitary its should really be cheaper because not all girls can afford them😔
Period Poverty! I've heard it all now. Damn that tax on my Tampax!!!
I'm sorry, I don't live in the UK, how much do menstrual products cost there? I had no idea this is a problem in the first world countries (if 40% of girls cant afford them, I'm pretty surprised)
because there are no poor people in "first world countries"...?
I'm also interested in this. 40% is too much
joenoseph I didn’t say this. As another person replied, 40% is a big number. Are you saying so many people are poor in the U.K.? And I always considered menstrual products as something vital, like food. At least to see a normal family in the movie (they don’t live on the street), I was shocked to see they can’t afford it
Furious Studio Many governments don’t prioritize this stuff, in most places across the U.S. menstrual products are taxed as cosmetics, very expensive already, limited at schools and other institutions, and across several cultures are shamed usage of.
Lala Shanks yes our government doesn’t prioritize it either that’s why I wanted to know the actual price :) just to get the idea
I frequently buy extra sanitary products at the super market to put in the donation bin to go to families struggling to buy hygiene products. I know the frustration of being without a period product when I have an unexpected early period. But to be without products every month must be hell
At my school every month we get period supplies, you can take 3 packs of anything, pads and tampons. You can take a mix of anything
Drs should be able to prescribe a menstrual cup then many could get it free or for moderate amount - great for the environment as well
This film shows that there are even families with a good house and getting what the want but still they need to suffer for period
Period products are too damn expensive.
@@KyleEvra true
So painful
For me, I haven't gotten mine, but my mom has some products (only 3 heavy flow pads and 1 light flow pad, menstrual discs, and a couple of tampons. I feel bad for her because she is trying to make me feel like someone special as I get my period. She went through a tough time when she was younger and got her period. She never got to get pads from her mom so she had to get some for herself, and she would leak a lot without her mom getting her pads. It was so sad to hear that from my mom and I asked her in Target one day if she was going to get some pads and stuff for her cylce cause she had gotten me liners. She disagreed and said "I just have to work with what I have." I was so sad inside and i wish I had the money to get her some (in which I have 70 dollars etc with coins). I may get her some, when I get my period, bring my wallet so she can buy mine and I get give her money for hers! I'd do anything for my mom to see her happy.
i had swim practice the second day of my first period and i just did it
In Canada sanitary supplies are available in schools for those who can’t afford them. So it should be. Nothing to be ashamed about.
I thought it only happens to me
We are lucky in Australia its around $4-8 for pads and tampons.
Excuse me my ignorance, please, maybe someone could explain? Is it really that bad in the UK that women can't afford a £1 pack of pads a month? Even in my worst times at uni when I had to eat at my friends' and walk home for miles cause I couldn't afford a tube ride I always had a stash of sanitaries at home, it was like a top priority. Maybe I'm not getting something with the prices and taxes?
Valerie Holovan Thats what I didn’t understand tbh you can buy female hygiene products in the pound shop, this is very sad tbh that young girls are missing classes because they hsvnt got the money ☹️
Yes, poor people are everywhere. Even in the UK 🤨🧐 🙁
I don't quite understand it either. Supermarket own brands are like £1 or less a pack and even the cheapest supermarket ones are better than nothing
It's often not just £1 thought. If there's more than 1 woman, you'll need to buy more pads. Maybe you're really heavy so you have to spend more money to get the thicker pads, or you go through more than pack a month
For some people it’s either food or a box of tampons.
But u can get pads for a quid at pound shops..
You can buy own brand pads in Asda for about 60p per pack. That’s really doable.
Don't tell anyone that, it will debunk the myth of period poverty.
I got an add for periods before this lol
😭
Poor girl
We experience the fact that when we were actually really extremely poor we couldn't even afford feminine products we had to actually cut up clothing to use. And I'm menstruating right now so that's kind of why I'm not going anywhere
I’m wish all boys understand
No well do this to me whan Iam literally suffering from pain
That a nice boy
Use menstrual cups .it's economical
I would not have felt comfortable talking to a boy about this.
The first thing I thought was
'wow, poor girl, everything is so white' 😂😂
She needs to marry that man who gave her the jumper immediately! What a good guy.
So why hasn't some super smart, MIT schooled, female engineer invented the 5 cent pad?
pads would be free
This made me so uncomfortable
I mean buying that much toilet paper... isn’t that the same price as a pack of pads
I guess! Mantrual products are now cheaper enough!! And she was Like, has everything and Other Things then Necessity!! Her Mom Can Buy Pads! If They would have done less Expense! That's the necessity! For ex: Her mother was Taking clothes in a basket🧺, she could have take on her hands, Many pads Can she buy from that money!!🤔😅 Don't u think so
They should be FREE, home delivered. and so should condoms.
I am not a feminist - but i do belive if men had the same problem the products would be free allready in the 1960ths...
that guy was cute tho
You just feel so desperate when you find out that you've ran out of sanitary napkins and don't know what to do ☹️
"Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your entire household." (Bible - Acts 16:31)
take the contraceptive tablet that stops it i have hemaphobia blood is disgusting
bloed 🩸 is normaal iedereen die heeft bloed en menstruatie maandverband in onderbroek is normaal en loogies en goed je kan kinderen krijgen door menstruatie en door menstruatie mir chocolade 🍫 eten lekker eten toch
die anticonceptie pil is niet gezond
je kan beter ongesteld dagen hebben
Packets of sanitary towels are as little as 30 and good quality ones are as little as 50p. How come the girl in the video has a phone (which probably is on a contract, nice jewellery) and a very nicely decorated bedroom, but, apparently cannot afford under a pound a month for sanitary wear?
The issue is poor budgeting of the adults, but, we aren't allowed to talk about that are we. Why am I so cynical? Being brought up in a single parent family on benefits with a mother, sister and myself all having periods and yet, I cannot ever recall going without STs, they were considered more essential than jewellery, make up and most other things that we wanted, those things came when we got ourselves a Saturday job, but, didn't need and there were lots of working class families who paid for the necessities first and anything that may have been left over went on nice, but, not vital things. Ask any woman over 40 if she ever went without sanitary towels or tampons growing up and the answer will be 'no' and the irony is that they are cheaper now in real terms than when I was growing up.
Period poverty is a myth, it's people not wanting to pay for the boring stuff and conning good hearted people into paying for it instead.
Not sure about you, but over here in America pads can be around $4 to $8. The heavier your period, the more pads you'll have to buy and the bigger the pads need to be.
What shocked me was the use of reusable underwears. Instead,you can use any old cotton cloth at home, with your normal underwear and use it during periods. Wash it and reuse it. As simple as that. Why would this cause period poverty. The solution is v simple.!
She has money for jewelry but not basic needs ? Gold earrings, gold necklace but no tampons , that's not a poverty problem that's a money management problem.
No offense this feels like propaganda
menstruatie maandverband in onderbroek is normaal waarom
taboe ? het is normaal 🩸❗️👍
ongesteld menstuwiren periode maandverband 🩸👍
gelukkig maar dat ongesteld dagen bestaan je kan kinderen krijgen door ongesteld worden