Skip to Content
Talkhouse home
Talkhouse home
Film

WeTalk — Voice to Power: Films for Social Justice: Alexandria Bombach and Hayley Pappas

Ondi Timoner speaks with the director and producer behind the very powerful forthcoming documentary On Her Shoulders.

10:00 AM EDT on April 24, 2018

Sundance award-winning director Alexandria Bombach and her producer Hayley Pappas, who calls the shots at the cutting-edge Oscar-nominated production company RYOT films, speak about their award-winning documentary On Her Shoulders, the truly incredible story of Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi survivor of genocide and ISIS sexual slavery who, despite losing everything and everyone, is determined to tell her story as many times as is needed to get help for her people. Murad’s eloquence and grace ends up opening the hearts and minds of the United Nations. You can find On Her Shoulders in theaters this fall.

Photo Credit: Dell Inc.
Sponsored by Dell

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

Related Stories

Faith and Flesh on Film

Emily Bennett traces the deep roots of her newly released horror movie Blood Shine, which she co-wrote, co-directed and stars in.

September 1, 2026

Three Great Things: James Ashcroft

The director of the new dark thriller The Whisper Man, which is now on Netflix, opens up about books, fashion and parenthood.

Ember Knight and Tristan Wheeler Talk About Being Evil

The filmmakers catch up about world building, shoestring budgets, and the Ember Knight Show.

August 27, 2026

Life Won’t Look Anything Like You Thought It Would

Writer-director Sophia Silver, whose debut feature Over/Under is out now, on filmmaking, motherhood and embracing unpredictability.

August 26, 2026

The Things That Echo: What Four Films Taught Me About Becoming

Writer-director Phyllis Toben Bancroft on women, the strange, non-linear nature of becoming and her anthology film Echoes.

August 21, 2026

Feeding the Babadook in the Basement

The Apology writer-director Alison Star Locke offers up a very personal take on "special needs moms in horror.”

August 19, 2026