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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar

A brutal rape case convulsed Spain. We made a film to let survivors know they are not alone

A protest against the decision to release members of the ‘wolf pack’ gang on bail in Madrid, Spain, June 2018
A protest against the decision to release members of the ‘wolf pack’ gang on bail in Madrid, Spain, June 2018. Photograph: Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket/Getty Images

For three and a half years, we worked in secret. Our families didn’t know what we were doing. Neither did our friends. We were making a film about the case that had triggered Spain’s 2018 #MeToo movement and secrecy was how we could best protect the survivors and participants. We also needed time to slowly and methodically build a documentary powerful enough that it could make something invisible – the universality of sexual violence against women – visible.

The story at the heart of our film began at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, famous for the “running of the bulls”, where in 2016 a woman was sexually assaulted by five men who called themselves “the wolf pack”.

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