Feminist Emergency Service: an urgent grant to keep shooting a documentary about activist Nastya Podorozna from Martynka Foundation.

About the group

Our project seeks to reveal the brutal reality faced by women in our country, regardless of their origin, and to promote an empathetic society..

They are a film team consisting of a Polish director, a Ukrainian producer and a Polish cinematographer. Their documentary, Call Me If You’re Lost, explores the motivations of activists such as Nastya Podorozna from Martynka Foundation, showing her work for refugees in Poland and at the same time asking whether and how individuals should try to repair a system that does not work.

About the action

We treat the process of creating this film as a form of activism and protest against a system that does not protect women. (…) We believe that our film can make viewers think about reacting to violence, especially at a time when society has become immune to the conflict that continues in Ukraine.

Using the Emergency Service, the group will finance some of the shots: Nastya’s participation in the preparatory hearing on the rape and murder of Lisa, a refugee from Belarus. The hearing was quite unexpectedly scheduled for October 23. Nastya will be supporting Liza’s partner throughout the process and this first hearing, which is the beginning of the legal proceedings, will be a very important part of this story.

Grant amount: PLN 3,000