DEAR LARA
About the Film
Dear Lara is a feature documentary, directed by Lara St. John and produced by Patrick Hamm.
When violinist Lara St. John goes public about her own assault as a child at an elite music school she uncovers a global pattern of abuse in the classical music world and joins fellow survivors to confront an entrenched culture of silence.
PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT
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‘Dear Lara’ premieres at SBIFF, exposing sexual abuse and institutional silence in the Classical Music world
Premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Dear Lara is already positioning itself as one of the most urgent and emotionally devastating documentaries of the year. Directed by world-renowned Canadian violinist Lara St John, the powerful social justice film made its debut, followed by a post-screening panel Q&A featuring St John and several of the film’s courageous subjects.
In the 2015 film “Spotlight,” Editor Marty Baron, played by Liev Schreiber, instructs his journalists to show that child sexual abuse by priests was part of a larger system. “Show me this was systemic,” he says, “that it came from the top down.”
