Other problems faced by African women directors in the newly global conditions of filmmaking involve the divide between local and global expectations of African life and values.[citation needed] Benin documentary filmmaker Giovannia Atodjinou-Zinsou has stated that there are problems with awareness of issues that impact African women, as "Women's expression hasn't taken the way it should" and that there is much silence surrounding issues and that it is not limited to only sexual abuse.[1]