The win that matters: Celebrating the women at the heart of Lover, Liar, Predator

Watch the moment Lover Liar Predator made into onto that big Grierson screen!

Lover, Liar, Predator didn't take home a Grierson Documentay Award this year. But for us at Own My Life, being part of an award-nominated film, and seeing its message celebrated on the night, is something to feel deeply honoured by.

We are so proud to have been part of this extraordinary project, and particularly grateful to Marta Aliaga García for her sensitive and skilful portrayal of women's strength and solidarity in the face of a man's violence and abuse, and to the entire DSP team.

Making a film about the devastating impact of abusers is never straightforward. But Lover, Liar, Predator does something incredibly important: it refuses to define women by what has been done to them. Instead, it shows their courage, their determination, their love for one another and the extraordinary power of women standing together.

And that felt particularly significant at this year's Grierson Awards.

At a time when violent and abusive men are dominating headlines, and when the ongoing revelations of how they were colluded with can leave so many women feeling exhausted, disillusioned and despairing, seeing a clip from our film shown at the awards was a powerful moment.

The clip captured something that we believe the world needs to see much more of: women in their strength. Women loving one another. Women believing one another. Women standing alongside one another and refusing to let the actions of abusive men define their lives.

Our CEO, Natalie Collins, wrote powerfully about the sense of disillusionment many women are experiencing in her recent piece, The Great Disillusionment.

She reflects on how even moments of justice and accountability can feel painfully inadequate when the scale of men's violence is so enormous, and when women continue to bear the consequences of that violence.

Against that backdrop, the moment at the Griersons felt especially meaningful.

Because Lover, Liar, Predator offers something that counters despair. Not a simplistic or easy version of hope, and certainly not a suggestion that solidarity makes the harm disappear. Rather, it shows us what remains possible when women come together: connection, love, courage, joy and the possibility of building lives that are bigger than the abuse they have experienced.

The win for us is seeing women portrayed in their strength, not diminished by what men have done to them.

It is seeing women whose stories are not simply stories of what happened to them, but stories of who they are, what they have overcome and what they make possible for one another.

We are immensely grateful to Marta, the whole filmmaking team and, most of all, the women whose courage and solidarity made this film possible.

Not taking home an award doesn't change what this film has achieved, or the importance of the story it tells.

We are proud to be part of it. And we will keep celebrating the women at its heart, and the sisterhood that makes us stronger.

Watch Lover Liar Predator HERE.

AI was used in drafting this post.