It's arresting. Opening with a black screen, a smiling boy, and a simple, powerful line of music, the message - in written text, no voiceover - is:

The spot cuts from the text to photos of Rwandans taken by photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik. I first heard about Torgovnik when Andrew Sullivan mentioned Torgovnik's photo series on February 22nd. His images are powerful, and it's exciting to see time on Hulu being used to bring attention to Foundation Rwanda.

A Google search takes me to Media Storm. Brian Storm is the executive producer of a nearly 15-minute documentary, Intended Consequences, which includes Torgovnik's still photography of Tutsi rape survivors and the children they conceived as a consequence of those systematic, brutal rapes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The documentary was filmed by Jules Shell with original music by Pamela Chen and Sherman Jia and voiced narratives from Torgovnik's interviews with the mothers.

The narrators, Rosette Adera, Yvette Rugasaguhunga, and Hope Kantete, perfectly embody the mother's pain, strength, anger, numbness. We see the eyes of these women, their tears, their shame, their grief, their hope, their love, their spirits that are fighting to survive, and we hear their voices. We take in their story.

This is transparent media. If you're willing to sit with this story, the creators give you a chance to get deep into it, including a full transcript of the production and a written statement by Torgovnik. The language on his website is more spare, so I appreciate the opportunity to get deeper into his experience. He documented "the most severe trauma that any human being I think can deal with," he says. Read Torgovnik's powerful statement here.

At this moment - from my warm, safe home in Portland, Maine, I can't get close to these women. But I am connected to them, as a woman and as a human being. Torgovnik has shared his experience with me through words and images, and Brian Storm has masterfully produced this documentary, and now I've spent an hour and a half hearing their stories, looking into their eyes as best I can through a computer screen, and from out of their space and time. Now I feel connected. And connection is the point.

Torgovnik and Shell allowed themselves to get connected. They didn't just document, they took action. The two men are the founders of Foundation Rwanda, which was created to fund secondary education for Rwandan children born of rape, link their mothers to psychological and medical support services, and use new media and photography to create awareness about the consequences of genocide and sexual violence.

There is so much pain in these stories, in the faces of the women and the children. What happened was so inconceivably anguishing, it would be far easier to continue ignoring the truth, as most of us have for 15 years. But the truth cannot be ignored, and I'm so glad Media Storm and Foundation Rwanda are honoring these women - these mothers, by telling their stories in sound and image.