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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Trinidadian Camika Mc Letchie has been accepted into the Vox Feminae Festival Croatia

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Rhondor Dowlat
2471 days ago
20181003
Camika Mc Letchie at the Piarco International Airport yesterday before leaving for Croaita.

Camika Mc Letchie at the Piarco International Airport yesterday before leaving for Croaita.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Trinida­di­an Cami­ka Mc Letchie, 43, who fi­nal­ly got the strength to walk out of an abu­sive 20-year do­mes­tic re­la­tion­ship is now in Croa­t­ia as her de­but doc­u­men­tary on her ex­pe­ri­ence has been ac­cept­ed in­to the Vox Fem­i­nae Fes­ti­val (Croa­t­ia Film Fes­ti­val).

A proud Mc Letchie be­fore she walked in­to the De­par­ture Lounge at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ex­pressed dis­be­lief in the jour­ney she was just about to em­bark on. “I want to thank every­one who helped to fund my trav­el and al­so to pro­vide warm cloth­ing, al­so bpTT for all that they did for me for this trip.”

Mc Letchie, the lead pro­tag­o­nist in Break­ing the Cy­cle is ex­pect­ed to share her life sto­ry and speak out against do­mes­tic vi­o­lence at a screen­ing of the doc­u­men­tary to­mor­row (Sat­ur­day) in Za­greb.

The moth­er of sev­en, her chil­dren ages be­tween 24 and sev­en, can­did­ly opens-up about her ex­pe­ri­ences with aban­don­ment, rape and phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al abuse.

In an in­ter­view, Mc Letchie said she had a lot of friends who were al­so vic­tims and added that when one of her close friends—pop­u­lar tele­vi­sion host Mar­cia Henville, 51—was mur­dered in 2015, it prompt­ed her to form a non-gov­ern­ment or­gan­i­sa­tion “Rise” where she as­sist­ed just over 30 vic­tims with­in the first year. Henville was a vic­tim of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

“I want­ed vic­tims to know that it is not the end of the world and do­mes­tic vi­o­lence is not nor­mal and it should not be ac­cept­ed,” Mc Letchie said.

Mc Letchie called on the cit­i­zen­ry at large to stop be­ing judg­men­tal against vic­tims of do­mes­tic abuse and in­stead be sup­port­ive.

Mc Letchie al­so rec­om­mend­ed that safe hous­es ex­tend stays or lift lim­i­ta­tions to vic­tims who may have male chil­dren. She al­so rec­om­mend­ed train­ing and sen­si­ti­sa­tion of first re­spon­ders to sit­u­a­tions in­clud­ing para­medics, po­lice of­fi­cers, nurs­es and doc­tors.

She said, “I don’t know if it is but it should be made manda­to­ry for doc­tors and nurs­es to call in the po­lice in sus­pect­ed do­mes­tic vi­o­lence abuse cas­es,” she said.

The doc­u­men­tary was filmed as part of the “I am Cit­i­zen” cam­paign, a project of the Cit­i­zen Se­cu­ri­ty Pro­gramme which is an ini­tia­tive un­der the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, with the ob­jec­tive of re­duc­ing crime and vi­o­lence and cre­at­ing safer com­mu­ni­ties.

 Break­ing the Cy­cle was pro­duced by CM­B­Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and di­rect­ed by Span­ish Film­mak­er Miquel Galofre.

Mc Letchie’s doc­u­men­tary has al­so been en­tered in the 5 Fes­ti­val Monde en Vues in Guadaloupe on Oc­to­ber 14 and Mar­da Loop Jus­tice Film Fes­ti­val in Cana­da on No­vem­ber 13.


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