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For millions of children around the world, the place where they are supposed to feel safest can be the place they experience the most fear. According to UNICEF, 1 in 4 children worldwide lives with a mother who has experienced intimate partner violence in the past year.
The heartbreaking short film MONSTERS, created by @promptrstudios in collaboration with @nomoreorg, tells the story of a little girl who has stopped being afraid of the monsters in her bedroom because the real terror is happening just outside her door. No child should have to grow up afraid in their own home. Every child deserves to feel safe, protected and loved.
@nomoreorg is a global organization working to end domestic violence and sexual assault, connecting survivors with resources and support services around the world.
Transcript
Are we already rolling? Is that the camera I should look into? My name is Pip. I'm the monster behind Mila's curtain. My name is Morris. I am one of the, the monster in Mila's wardrobe. I'm the monster under Mila's bed. Scaring children is not easy. You need a technique. No, well, what I do is I wait and then, you know, I tap against the bed from underneath with my claws. Well, I I rattle the clothes hangers, but only very, very lightly. Only the metal ones, never the wooden ones. They just go clomp. Well, something's different lately. Somehow... It's super weird. Mila just lies there. She doesn't even look at the curtain. She's not she's not scared of us anymore. We decided to, you know, get to the bottom of it. We went out. Daylight is horrible, honestly. You can see everything. I thought, you know, nothing was happening. Just a quiet day. Right? But then I looked out the window, and I saw the car outside. There was the key in the front door. I I heard the footsteps, heavy ones, out in the hallway. Hey, honey. I'm home. The humming stopped, just like that. And the little one put her pencil down. Her mom said very quietly, Mila, go to your room. Very quickly, like she'd said it before, but Mila didn't move. The shouting was horribly loud. We got the more out there. Something fell over. Then a plate broke. She'd been humming over that plate five minutes earlier. I don't get the same stuff. And then everything here is alright.... This. I have never seen a monster so terrible in my entire life. Children are supposed to be afraid of the dark. That's how it's meant to be, not of the day.
