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And how did you get in contact with Felicia, and why did you choose her for the film?

It was an extensive job. We carried out a casting that resulted in contact with half a dozen people. The person who carried out this great labour was Karin Tideström, and she has a solid experience as an investigative journalist. I myself have worked as a journalist, among other things with TV programmes such as Uppdrag granskning (SVT) and Kalla fakta (TV4). Me and Karin agreed on a method where we asked to go through a handful of documents from a number of authorities where we knew we would find young people who had experience of living in violence. We also advertised and made some hundred calls to find young people with these experiences. We narrowed it down to geography and age and in the end we had around six young people who all had lived in or witnessed domestic violence – and who all wanted to participate in a documentary film. Åsa was assigned to start filming Isabell and some others, and one of them was Felicia.

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