Films and workshops for the 2nd Athena Film Festival
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Workshops for Filmmakers
Sponsored by the Ford Foundation’s Just Films
Friday, Feb. 10, 2012
1:30 – 3:00PM
The James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
From Script to Screen: Producing Films in Tough Times
In these very difficult times, filmmakers and writers are struggling to find the financial resources to make their films. Creating films by and about women, particularly women in leadership roles is even more difficult. This workshop will bring producers, writers, and financiers together to provide insights and expertise on a variety of topics related to film production: how to find the right person to read your script, how to find financing, ways to secure a director, and many other tips to ensure that your idea moves from the page to the big screen.
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3:15 – 4:45 PM
The James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Building an Audience in the Digital Age
Whether you make a film for $1,000 or a $1 million you want it to be seen. But, the film business is changing rapidly. No longer are distribution deals with major studios the only way to ensure an audience. There are many distribution methods: from video on demand to online streaming to the traditional brick and mortar theatre. But how do you decide what is right for your film? And once you have chose a method (or several methods) of distribution, how can you make sure that people know about your film? Learn from distribution, marketing and outreach experts about the ever-changing landscape and how to figure out what will work best for you.
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FILMS AND PANELS
The Whistleblower
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Redgrave
Feature, 2010, [Canada], English, 112 minutes
Friday, Feb. 10, 2011 6PM
Miller Theatre 2960 Broadway at 116th St.
This gripping expose of human trafficking tells the story of Kathryn Bolkovac, an American police officer who takes a job as a UN peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. After initial success in prosecuting a case of domestic violence, Kathryn is offered a job in the United Nations Gender Affairs Office, working with the police to investigate rape and domestic abuse. But her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country and protect women from violence are routed when she uncovers a ring of UN officials and private contractors smuggling young women in from the Ukraine to service a back-woods brothel. Against a sordid and corrupt backdrop, Rachael Weisz and Vanessa Redgrave give tension filled, dramatic performances in the directorial debut of Canadian filmmaker Larysa Kondracki.
Producer Celine Rattray will participate in a Q and A with Columbia University film professor Annette Insdorf following the screening.
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Sneak Preview: Ann Richard's Texas
Friday Feb. 10, 2012 6PM
Diana Event Oval, LL100 Diana Center
Directors: Keith Patterson and Jack Lofton
Cast: Interviews with Tom Brokaw, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Begala, Michael Dukakis, Lily Tomlin, Jack Abramoff, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson
Documentary, 2012, [USA], English, 45 minutes
Ann Richard's Texas is a new feature length documentary about the late Texas Governor Ann Richards (1933 -2006) one of the most beloved Democratic politicians of her day. Richards, who served from 1991-1995 was the last statewide Democrat elected statewide in the land of George W. Bush and Rick Perry. Richards was known as a no-nonsense politician who fought against special interests and was never afraid to speak her mind.. In the late 1980s, she lost her re-election bid to George W. Bush. Not your typical politician, Richards was good friends with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and involved over her life with all of the major civil rights movements.
Q and A Session
Directors Keith Patterson and Jack Lofton and Marie C. Wilson the founder of the White House Project will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.
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Apache 8
Director: Sande Zeig;
Cast: Cheryl Bones, Katy Aday, Ericka Hinton, Nita Quintero
Documentary, 2011 [USA] English, 57 minutes
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 12 Noon
Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Apache 8 tells the story of an all-women firefighter crew from the White Mountain Apache Tribe who have been fighting wildfires in Arizona and throughout the U.S. for over 30 years. Extraordinary women from different generations of the Apache 8 crew share their personal stories with humor and tenderness. They speak of hardship and loss, family and community, and the pride they share in being a firefighter from Fort Apache.
Q and A Session
Producer Susan Lazarus and composer Wendy Blackstone will discuss the creative and technical challenges faced in the process of completing a documentary in these times.
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The Naked Option
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 12 Noon
Diana Event Oval, Diana Center LL 100
Director: Candace Schermerhorn
Cast: Emem J. Okon, Annkio Briggs, Professor E. J. Alagoa, Mr. Morris Asagba, Felicia Asekoni, Doris Atimi, Comfort Avis, Oronto Douglas, Stella Fyneface, Dr. Mrs. Felicia Ihuoma Nwalutu, Aret Ododo, Lucky Ogodo, Dr. David Okwudili, Annie Porbeni
Dr. Owens Wiwa
Documentary, 2011 [NIGERIA/USA] English/Creole/Pidgin, 75 minutes
Fueled by their hopes for a better future, grassroots women in Nigeria’s Niger Delta use the threat of stripping naked in public, a serious cultural taboo, to make their voices heard and hold multinational oil companies accountable to the communities in which they operate. Through the leadership of the inexhaustible Emem J. Okon, these women take over where men have failed, peacefully transforming their ‘naked power’ into 21st century political action.
Q and A Session
Director Candace Schermerhorn will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.
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A Marine Story
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 12 Noon
Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall
Director: Ned Farr
Cast: Dreya Weber, Paris P. Pickard
Feature, 2010 [USA] English, 95 minutes
A decorated Marine from a military family, Alex is unexpectedly discharged from duty when authorities discover she is a lesbian. When she returns home, she struggles to readjust to civilian life. Alex agrees to mentor Saffron a troubled teen who is enlisting. Alex is the no-nonsense role model and authority figure Saffron needs, but as Saffron finally hits her stride, Alex must find the courage to face her own demons as she takes on the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.
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In partnership with ITVS
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 3PM
Diana Event Oval, LL100 Diana Center
Producer/Director: Sharon La Cruise
Producer: Noland Walker
Cast: Angela Bassett as the voice of Daisy Bates, Summer Modica as young Daisy Bates
Documentary, 2011 [USA] English, 60 minutes
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock tells the story of a forgotten civil rights activist, Daisy Bates who became a household name in 1957 when she was one of nine black students who fought for the right to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her courage culminated in a constitutional crisis — pitting a President against a Governor and a community against itself. Unconventional, revolutionary, and egotistical, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society and opened doors that had been sealed for generations. As this eloquent movie documents, Daisy Bates reaped the rewards of instant fame, but paid dearly for it.
Q and A Session
Director Sharon La Cruise and David Margolick author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.
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Women, War & Peace: War Redefined
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 3PM
Julius Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Executive Producers of the Series: Abigail Disney, Pamela Hogan and Gini Reticker
War Redefined: Producer and Writer: Peter Bull Co-Producer: Nina Chaudry
Cast: Interviews with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright; Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee
Documentary, 2011, [USA], English, length
Women, War & Peace is a new five-part PBS television series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. It spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones from Bosnia to Afghanistan, Colombia to Liberia, placing women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security. The capstone of the series, War Redefined includes incisive interviews with leading thinkers, Secretaries of State and seasoned survivors of war and peace-making. Their experiences reveal how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented casualties. Simultaneously, they describe how women are emerging as necessary partners in brokering lasting peace. Narrated by Geena Davis.
Q and A Session
Series Executive Producer Pamela Hogan and Producer and Writer: Peter Bull; Co-Producer: Nina Chaudry will join the audience for a q and a following the screening.
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The Legend of Pancho Barnes
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 6 PM
Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall
Director: Amanda Pope
Writer/Producer: Nick Spark
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Bates, Buzz Aldrin, Jordan Black, Louis D’Elia, Chuck Yeager
Documentary, 2009 [USA] English, 64 minutes
The Legend of Pancho Barnes chronicles the thrilling life of aviation pioneer Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes, one of the most colorful and accomplished women pilots of the earliest 20th Century. A tough and fearless woman, Pancho was a rival of Amelia Earhart who made a name for herself as Hollywood's first female stunt pilot. Just before WWII she opened the "Happy Bottom Riding Club", a ranch near Edwards Air Force Base that became the epicenter of the aviation world during the early jet age. Chuck Yeager celebrated breaking the sound barrier there in 1947, and Howard Hughes and Jimmy Doolittle caroused in the bar. The Club's destruction by fire in 1953 is seen by many to mark the end of a Golden Era in post-WWII aviation.
Q and A session with Director Amanda Pope will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.
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A Hollywood Conversation:
Winnie Holzman and Savannah Dooley
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 3PM
James Room, 418 Barnard Hall
Winnie and Savannah Talk about their Creative Collaboration with Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker TV Writer
Winnie Holzman is a playwright, screenwriter and poet. She created the ABC television series My So-Called Life, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination for writing in 1995. She also wrote for thirtysomething and Once and Again.
Holzman made her Broadway debut in 2003 when she wrote the book for the Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire. She won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. The musical continues its run on Broadway and is in production across the globe.
Savannah Dooley, Holzman’s 26 year old daughter is also a writer with whom Winnie has collaborated on various short films. They wrote the TV pilot Huge based on the Sasha Paley novel , for ABC Family and then collaborated on the series which premiered in June 2010 and ran for one season. They are the first mother-daughter team to create a TV show.
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Shorts Collection I
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 3PM
Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theater, LL 200 Diana Center
The Director
Director: Destri Martino
Animated Short
2011, [USA] English, 1 min
Equality, I am Woman
Director: Al Sutton
Documentary Short
2010, [USA] English, 10 minutes
Lady Razorbacks
Director: Laura Green
Documentary Short
2011 [USA] English, 4 minutes
Northeast Front
Director: Angela Torres Camarena
Feature Short
2010, [USA] Spanish, 11 minutes
Slaying the Dragon Reloaded
Director: Elaine Kim
Documentary Short
2010, [USA] English, 30 minutes
Tasnim
Director: Elite Zexer
Feature Short
2010, Israel, Arabic, 12 minutes
Umoja: No Men Allowed
Director: Elizabeth Tadic
Cast: Rebecca Lolosoli
Documentary Short, 2011 [USA] English, 32 minutes
Filmmakers Destri Martino (The Director), Director Al Sutton (Equality, I am Woman), Director Elaine Kim (Slaying the Dragon Reloaded) will participate in a Q & A session following the screening.
Film Descriptions
The Director
In this animated short, a film director makes a statement by wearing a dress on the set. In a sweet, tongue-in-cheek way, the film highlights the contradictory messages often sent to women and girls -- that they should take on various feminine attributes until they want a job in a “man’s world.”
Equality, I am Woman
This inspirational film of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality features the music of Helen Reddy, narration by Gloria Steinem and Jacqui Ceballos, President of Veteran Feminists of America, with excerpts from Betty Friedan's speech in Bryant Park.
Northeast Front
A mother’s love for her children knows no bounds but is put in grave danger when she is forced to save her son from his unintended collaboration with Mexico’s dangerous cartels.
Slaying the Dragon Reloaded
This documentary revisits Slaying the Dragon (1986), the pioneering film on the media's representation of Asian women, to determine what has and has not changed in Hollywood and beyond.
Tasnim
Excited by her father’s surprise arrival and determined to see him, 10-year-old Tasnim summons up the nerve to disregard the conservative norms of her Bedouin village.
Umoja: No Men Allowed
UMOJA: No Men Allowed is the heartwarming story of women from the Samburu tribe in Kenya who turn age-old patriarchy on its head when they set up a women’s only village. Matriarch Rebecca Lolosoli brings together the exiled women who were beaten up by their abusive husbands. When the women start their own business, their success incurs the wrath of the men resulting in an unlikely gender war.
Q & A Session:
Filmmakers Destri Martino (The Director) and Director Al Sutton (Equality, I am Woman) will participate in a Q & A session following the screening.
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Gloria: In Her Own Words
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 6PM
Diana Event Oval, LL100 Diana Center
Director/Producer: Peter Kunhardt
Cast: Interviews with Bella Abzug, Helen Gurley Brown, Phil Donohue, Betty Friedan, Larry King, Gloria Steinem, Barbara Walters
Documentary, 2011 [USA] English, 62 minutes
Gloria: In Her Own Words blends interviews, press clippings, photographs and archival footage to chronicle Gloria Steinem’s emergence as a driving force in the modern women’s liberation movement. In it’s portrayal of Steinem’s rocky road from a journalist to one of the most visible symbols of the women’s movement today, the documentary features footage of prominent activists from Betty Friedan to Bella Abzug to Flo Kennedy and covers some of the most crucial issues facing women in recent decades through the eyes of one of its most courageous leaders.
Q and A:
Gloria Steinem and Amy Richards will participate in a post screening Q and A.
Adult: FREE To enter, please show your free ticket at the door.
Student: FREE
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour
Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 9 PM
Miller Theatre, 116th St. & Broadway
Director: Kerthy Fix
Cast: Johanna Fateman, Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson
Documentary, 2011 [USA] English, 72 minutes
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour follows iconic feminist electronic band Le Tigre on their 2004-2005 international tour across four continents and through ten countries. Supported by a community of devoted fans and led by outspoken Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna, Le Tigre confronts sexism and homophobia in the music industry while tearing up the stage. This edgy and entertaining documentary features never before seen live performances, archival interviews, and revealing backstage footage with these trail-blazing artists. Director Kerthy Fix will join the audience for a Q and A following the screening.
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Tomboy
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 6PM
Julius Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Director: Celine Sciamma
Cast: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson
Feature, 2011 [USA] French, 84 minutes
When Laure arrives at her new neighborhood in the outskirts of Paris, she ventures outside to meet the local kids. Mistaken for a boy by a potential new friend Lisa, she decides, on the spur of the moment, to give her name as Mikaël. As they become closer, Lisa does not know that her new best friend is a girl. Second-time director Celine Sciamma’s striking debut, Water Lilies, marked her as a name to watch, and she doesn’t disappoint with this intimate drama of female sexuality.
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Borgen
Sunday, February 12 at 1 PM
Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall
Creators: Adam Price Tobias Lindholm, and Jeppe Gjervig Gram
Producer: Camilla Hammerich
Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Brigitte Hjort Sorensen, Johan Philip Asbaek
TV Series, 2011 [Denmark] Danish, 110 minutes
This political drama, the latest Danish television sensation, follows the complicated life of 40-year-old political leader Birgitte Nyborg Christensen, the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. Like its American cousin The West Wing, Borgen uncovers a world of political gamesmanship, the intricate public and private lives of politicians, media spinners, and the reporters who traffic in their triumphs and failures.
Episode 1: Dyden i midten (Virtue in the Middle)
Three days before an election, party leader Birgitte Nyborg shakes up her campaign by denouncing her closest ally, sensitive information about the current prime minister's shopping expenses lands in the wrong hands, and the rising star of the evening news is shaken by an unexpected death.
Episode 2: Tæl til 90 (Count to 90)
After a successful election, Birgitte Nyborg looks set to become Denmark's first female prime minister, but allies and opponents do their best to block her way.
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Wish Me Away
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2011 9PM
Diana Event Oval, LL100 Diana Center
Directors/Producers: Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf
Cast: Chely Wright, Howard Bragman, Christopher Wright, Charlene Daniels, Jennifer Archer, Stan Wright
Documentary, 2011 [USA] English, 64 minutes
A Country Music Star Risks Her Career, Family, and Fame to Be True to Herself
This documentary is a personal and intimate look at Chely Wright who, after a lifetime of hiding, becomes the first commercially successful country music singer to come out as a lesbian. With unprecedented access over a two-year period, including her private video diaries, the film chronicles Chely's rise to fame to the moment she steps into the media glare and shatters the cultural and religious stereotypes of Nashville. Wish Me Away shows both the devastation caused by Chely’s internalized homophobia and the transformational power of living an authentic life.
Q and A Session
Director/Producers Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf will join documentarian Chris Hegedus for a Q and A session following the film.
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Oranges and Sunshine
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 9PM
Julius Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Director: Jim Loach
Cast: Emily Watson, David Wenham and Hugo Weaving
Feature, 2011, [U.K.], English, 100 minutes
A British Social-Worker Brings World-Wide Attention to an
Extraordinary Miscarriage of Justice
Oranges and Sunshine is the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, England who uncovers one of the most significant scandals in recent times: the organized deportation of nearly 130,000 children who were removed from orphanages and group homes in Britain and sent to western Australia and other locations. Many of the children were forced into hard labor where they endured physical cruelty and sexual abuse. Emily Watson portrays Margaret Humphreys, who almost single-handedly, reunited thousands of families, brought worldwide attention to this travesty and brought authorities to account.
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All She Can
Benavides Born (original title)
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 1PM
Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Director: Amy Wendel
Cast: Corina Calderon, Jeremy Ray Valdez and Joseph Julian Soria
Feature, 2011, [USA], English and Spanish, 91 minutes
In Benavides, Texas, petite girls can deadlift 280 pounds, military recruiters roam high school halls, and a patriotic Mexican-American community that has been there since before it was Texas struggles with a collapsing economy. Luz Garcia, a high school senior in this forgotten town, wants something different than the options awaiting her after graduation. She's earned a ticket out with admission to the University of Texas at Austin, but she can't afford to go. Her one shot is a scholarship for winning the State Powerlifting Championship.
Q and A Session
Director Amy Wendel will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.
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The Rescuers
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 1PM
Diana Event Oval, Diana Center LL 100
Producer/Director: Michael King
Cast: Martin Gilbert, Gustav Goldberger, Inge Samson, Sylvia Smollar, Michael Kaufman, Sebastian Mendes, Stephanie Nyombayire, Peter Vagi, Berl Shor, Agnes Hirschi, Leo Goldberger
Documentary, 2011 [USA] English, 94 minutes
The Rescuers follows Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who in the 1990s lost 100 members of her family in the Rwandan Genocide, as she teams with Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian. Together they travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of 13 heroic and courageous diplomats who, at tremendous personal cost, saved tens of thousands of Jews during World War II. Their quest uncovers the largely unknown stories of these WWII heroes and helps Stephanie understand what needs to be done to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere.
Q and A Session
Stephanie Nyombayire will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.
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Shorts Collection II
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 1PM
Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theater, LL 200 Diana Center
Abuelas
Director: Afarin Eghbal
Documentary Short
2011, [U.K] English and Spanish, 9 minutes
Harriet Returns
Director: Tamu Favorite
Feature Short
2011, [USA] English, 10 minutes
I am A Girl!
Director: Susan Koenen
Documentary Short
2011 [Netherlands] Dutch, 15 minutes
Junko's Shamisen
Director: Sol Friedman
Animated Short
2010 [Canada] Japanese, 11 minutes
Nurses for Africa
Director: Benjamin and Robert Clyde
Documentary Short
2010, [USA] English, 26 minutes
T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s
Director: Robert Phillpson
Documentary Short
2011, [USA] English, 29 minutes
Unchastened
Director: Brynmore Williams
Documentary Short
2010, [USA] Silent, 4 minutes
Film Descriptions
Abuelas
In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild and all the joys of becoming a grandmother. Unfortunately, her daughter is among the 30,000 people who “disappeared” between 1976-83 under an oppressive Argentinean military dictatorship. Using real-life testimonials from members of the 'Grandmothers of May Square', this documentary is a testament to the tenacity of the Abuelas who continue fighting for the truth about their missing relatives.
Harriet Returns
Harriet Tubman returns to modern times to emancipate young male rappers who use the "N" word as a term of endearment. (She believes they have enslaved themselves with their disrespect of their ancestors. Two bounty hunters from her era also return in search of Harriet so she is urgent about her mission.
Junko's Shamisen
With the help of a mystical fox at her side, a young girl avenges her grandfather’s death in this mixed-media tale of innocence, evil and bloodshed.
Nurses for Africa
A group of nurses from the mid-west are sent to provide free medical treatment to a small village in Zambia, Africa. They quickly learn that their initial expectations were all wrong and that the experience of serving others would make the biggest difference in their own lives.
T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s
Celebrates the pioneers of blues through interviews with cultural historians, vintage photos, footage, and recordings, narrated by Jewelle Gomez.
Unchastened
A story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her beauty and grace in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis.
Q and A Session
Director Marquis Smalls and Actress Tamu Favorite (Harriet Returns) and director Brynmore Williams and film subject Catherine Musinsky (Unchastend) will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.
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Sneak Peek of New Movie and Discussion change
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 2:30 PM
James Room, 418 Barnard Hall
Director:
Cast:
Documentary, 2012 [USA] English, __minutes
The Stirring Stories of Women and Girls Fighting Bravely for a Better Life
In 2009, with the acclaimed bestselling book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn encouraged readers all over the world to join a burgeoning movement to improve the lives of women and girls. This documentary also entitled Half the Sky—inspired by Kristof and WuDunn’s work—introduces women and girls who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable—and fighting bravely to change them. Their dramatic and immediate stories offer a blueprint for transformation.
Conversation
A 15 minute look at the new film followed by a conversation with ______________.
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Black Butterflies
Friday, February 10 at 9 PM
Diana Event Oval, Diana Center LL 100
Director: Paula van der Oest
Cast: Carice van Houten, Rutger Hauer, Liam Cunningham – she should be first- she is the star
Feature, 2011 [Germany, Netherlands, South Africa] English, 100 minutes
Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of Ingrid Jonker, the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga." The story begins in Cape Town in the 1960s where apartheid had eliminated free expression for both blacks and whites. There Jonker finds her freedom writing verse while moving through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating fights with both her lovers and her father who is a government censor, the poet witnesses unconscionable events that alter her life forever.
Q and A Session
Director Paula van der Oest will participate in a Q and A with Susan Cartsonis following the screening.
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The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 4PM
Julius Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Director: Perri Peltz
Cast: Dee Dee Ricks
Documentary, October 2011 [USA] English, 71 minutes
Dee Dee Ricks was living her dream—she had a successful business, two beautiful kids, and a whirlwind social life. But after being diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoing a double mastectomy, Ricks trades her hedge-fund career for philanthropy, raising money for a Harlem clinic that treats uninsured and underserved patients. Director Perri Peltz candidly tracks the emotional rebirth of a survivor determined to help make life easier for other cancer patients, following Ricks over a three year period as she battles her disease, struggles to raise money for the clinic and reevaluates her purpose in life.
Q and A Session
Dee Dee Ricks and Director Perri Peltz will join the audience for a Q and A session following the film.- haven’t confirmed them yet
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Off the Rez
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 4PM
Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theater, LL 200 Diana Center
Director/Producer: Jonathan Hock
Cast: Ceci Moses, Delores Moses, Lilian Moses, Rick Schimmel, Shoni Schimmel
Documentary, 2011 [USA] English, 90 minutes
Shoni Schimmel, a high-school junior living on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, was one of the best high school basketball players in the country. When Shoni's mother, Ceci takes a job coaching a high school team in Portland, she defies her family and brings Shoni and her seven other children with her. Now, Shoni's senior year has become the most important year of their lives as mother and daughter fight to preserve their traditions in the unforgiving world of big‐time American sports and prove that Native American women can become champions both on and off the Rez.
Premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
Q and A Session
Editors Keiko Deguchi and Nancy Novack and producer Jim Podhoretz will participate in a post screening Q and A session.
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Circumstance
Sunday, February 12 at 4 PM
Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall
220 min
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Q and A:
Director Maryam Keshavarz will participate in a q and a following the screening of the film.
The Lady
Sunday, February 12 6 PM
Diana Event Oval, Diana Center LL 100
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis and Jonathan Raggett
Feature, 2011, [U.K.] English, 145 minutes
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The Lady is based on the true story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who had been under house arrest for 17 years. The movie details how Aung San Suu Kyi, her husband Michael Aris, and their family sacrificed their happiness in order to lead the struggle for human rights. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endured. Aung San Suu Kyi’s courageous struggle for political freedom has recently shown progress. Released from house arrest in 2010, she is planning to run for Parliament in upcoming elections and has expressed confidence that democracy eventually will come to her homeland.
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