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Consensual / Documentary
About
When Chanel Contos put a post up on social media asking for a count of those who had experienced sexual assault perpetrated by boys who had attended Sydney private schools, she was inundated with testimonies and catapulted to the forefront of the international consent movement. Using a ‘love, not shame’ approach, Chanel is on a quest to eradicate normalised sexual violence and shift the cultural discourse so that it centres on enthusiastic consent. Consensual takes us out of the shadows and confronts the frameworks that hold us all back when it comes to healthy intimacy.
Why
Consensual captures a pivotal cultural moment sparked by Chanel Contos’s viral Instagram poll, which exposed the scale of sexual violence and forced consent education onto the national agenda. The film powerfully examines how privilege, entitlement and institutional systems sustain rape culture, particularly within elite education.
Led by Chanel’s empathetic and accessible voice, Consensual moves beyond blame to interrogate systems while offering a hopeful roadmap for change. By centring young people and models of healthy masculinity, it reframes consent as positive, mutual and desirable.
We fund Consensual because it turns a national reckoning into an inclusive, impactful vision for cultural transformation.