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Asian American & S. DRAWING THE TIGER SONITA A film by Amy Benson, Scott Squire and Ramyata Limbu A film by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami Shot over seven years, DRAWING THE TIGER takes a sweeping view of one Nepalese SONITA, which won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, tells family’s daily struggle to survive off of subsistence farming. Eat, pay their debts, stay alive— the inspiring story of an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, Sonita Alizadeh, who claims that’s their day-to-day reality. But when their bright daughter receives a scholarship to study Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a big-name in Kathmandu, the family’s prospects suddenly improve by leaps and bounds overnight. They rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. And rest their hopes and dreams on her narrow shoulders, but will the weight of their expectations her family has a very different future planned for her: As a bride she’s worth $9,000. crush her? Can she really break the cycle of poverty and redefine their collective destiny? This intimate portrait of creativity and womanhood is fueling an international campaign to She seems eager to try, promising to return and free her family from their hand-to-mouth end child marriage. Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (GOING UP THE STAIRS) existence. But when she doesn’t come home, the family is forced to face their fate. Is their poignantly shifts from observing Sonita’s story to participating, challenging expectations about future set in stone or sand; is it solid or ever-shifting? DRAWING THE TIGER is a powerful the role of a documentarian. The result is a personal, joyful portrait of a powerful young artist, portrait of pressure and the price one family pays for their golden opportunity that reminds us highlighting the rarely seen intricacies and shifting contrasts of Iranian society. of what we can and cannot change. —Angie Driscoll, Hot Docs Programmer Germany/Iran/Switzerland, 2015 | 91 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161180 US/Nepal, 2015 | 96 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161195 • Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize • Film South Asia UNCEF Award HHHHH Triumphant documentary... A quietly powerful film that will stick with & Audience Award – World Documentary Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami’s absorbing portrait • CAAM Fest Documentary Award “ “viewers long after it ends. • IDFA, Audience Award and DOC U Award of a refugee in Iran is endlessly surprising... • Sebastopol Special Jury Mention - Andrew Parker, Toronto Film Scene • True/False Film Festival, True Life Fund - Nigel M. Smith, The Guardian • Northwest Film Forum Best Feature Award ” Award ” The filmmakers’ unwavering commitment • Hot Docs • Full Frame, Center for Documentary Inspiring…a certified crowdpleaser. • Margaret Mead Film Festival to truthful storytelling achieves a rare, Studies Filmmaker Award “nonjudgmental respect for the lives of the “- Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter • Camden Intl Film Festival • Sarasota Intl Film Festival, Audience ” people they observe. Award, Best in World Cinema • Woodstock Film Festival - Chanel Kong, CAAMFest” ************************************************************ ************************************************************ WINNING GIRL SLAYING THE PLAYING WITH GOING UP THE A film by Kimberlee DRAGON: FIRE: STAIRS: Bassford RELOADED Women Actors of Portrait of an Unlikely Afghanistan Iranian Artist Award-winning filmmaker A film by Deborah Gee Kimberlee Bassford and Elaine H. Kim A film by Anneta A film by Rokhsareh follows a teenage judo Papathanassiou Ghaem Maghami Two lenses on media and wrestling In the wake of the Taliban, representations of Asian A warm, inspiring and phenomenon from theater in Afghanistan is and Asian American surprisingly funny portrait Hawai‘i, Teshya Alo, on resurgent — but women women: SLAYING of an outsider artist in her four-year journey to at the forefront face dire THE DRAGON covers Iran, Akram. Illiterate at become the youngest risks. PLAYING WITH stereotypes since the 50 years old and married Olympic gold medalist in FIRE introduces six silent era, RELOADED focuses on change in since she was 8, Akram must get permission from two different sports in one year. women who brave Islamic fundamentalism and recent decades and what we can still hope for. her conservative husband to attend her first art patriarchal traditions to follow their passions. exhibition in Paris.

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Women & Technology #1 Video for 2015, American Library Association GREAT UNSUNG WOMEN OF COMPUTING: LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS Booklist Choice! The Computers, The Coders and The Future Makers A film by Laurie Kahn A 3-part series by Kathy Kleiman, Jon Palfreman and Kate McMahon Romance fiction outsells all other genres of writing, from crime to science fiction, combined. So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous “scribble”? Could it be that it’s because Women are not only vastly underrepresented in STEM fields — they are vastly under- the overwhelming majority of writers and readers are women? This funny and inspiring look recognized for their game-changing contributions. This short series, highlighting female into a billion dollar industry turns up trailblazers who push the discussion on gender, race, pioneers who revolutionized the computing and Internet technology we use today, seeks sexuality and diversity at the front lines of the biggest power shift in publishing. to change the ratio. THE COMPUTERS features never-before-seen interviews with some of the earliest computer programmers: six women who created the world’s first modern, Emmy Award® Winning director Laurie Kahn (TUPPERWARE!) turns her insightful eye programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of a secret WWII project. THE CODERS highlights towards another American pop culture phenomenon: the romance industry. Creating online two extraordinary women who invented technologies, Java and Flash, that revolutionized empires and inventing new markets are authors like Beverly Jenkins, a pioneer of African the Internet as we know it today. And in THE FUTURE MAKERS, we see a glimpse of the American romance, Len Barot (aka Radclyffe, L.L. Raand), a surgeon and lesbian-romance future in the work of Andrea Colaço, the young MIT PhD student who won MIT’s $100K legend who started her own publishing house, and the incomparable Nora Roberts. This Entrepreneurship Prize for inventing 3D gesture-recognition technology. These short films will documentary offers fascinating insights into the history and popularity of this female-centric help female students to believe that careers in programming and tech lie within their grasp. literary world. Resource Guide available at: www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/resource-guide-intro Photo courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Archives. US, 2015 | 86 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161173 US, 2016| 48 mins | Sale $ 350 | Rental $125 | #L161181 • Hot Docs HHH ...Recommended… Laurie Kahn’s lively documentary • Seattle Intl Film Festival History’s female programmers will no longer be forgotten… • Los Angeles Film Festival LOVE BETWEEN“ THE COVERS makes a solid case for an • Inspirefest Dublin “Kleiman is building a future that looks different from a history • DOC NYC appreciation of a much maligned genre. - Video Librarian that’s been airbrushed to look more male than it really was. • Hot Springs Documentary - Readwrite.com Film Festival If you want to understand what makes” the most popular ” “of popular genres tick, hurry up and watch Love Between the … an eye opening experience for all of us… these women Covers. A refreshingly smart look at romance fiction today,

paved the way for the next generation. yesterday, and tomorrow. “ - Professor Samir Khuller, University of Maryland” - Professor William Gleason,” Princeton University ************************************************************ ************************************************************ THE GENDER ATOMIC MOM MISS AMERICA LET’S GET THE CHIP PROJECT A film by M.T. Silvia A film by Lisa Ades RHYTHM A film by Helen De Michiel A film by Irene Chagall ATOMIC MOM reveals As relevant now as when What is it like to be a the intimate story about it premiered at Sundance A delightful homage young woman training in one of the few female and aired on PBS’s to the ancient, global college for a career in the scientists working on American Experience, tradition of hand-clapping high stakes professions the testing of the atom MISS AMERICA combines games, guided by three of science, technology, bomb in Nevada. From rare archival footage, eight-year-olds. Rich engineering and math exploring her family his- interviews with Gloria material for Anthropology (STEM)? This important tory to traveling to Japan, Steinem, Margaret Cho and Sociology courses, documentary is a must see M.T. Silvia examines the and Isaac Mizrahi to show with archival footage for those concerned with complex legacy of atomic warfare through a female how the pageant became collected by Alan Lomax the challenge of increasing the number of women in perspective. a battleground and a barometer for the changing and observations by ethnomusicologists and STEM careers. position of women in society. neuroscientists.

4 VISIT WWW.WMM.COM FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG 212.925.0606 X 360 [email protected] 5 Latinas & Feminism Latinas Latinas & Immigration DON’T TELL ANYONE (NO LE DIGAS A NADIE) OVARIAN PSYCOS A film by Mikaela Shwer A film by Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-LaValle Peabody Award winner and broadcast nationally on POV, DON’T TELL ANYONE (NO LE Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous in Eastside Los Angeles, the Ovarian DIGAS A NADIE), follows a young woman’s remarkable journey from poverty and civil war Psycos use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives. At the helm of the crew is in rural Colombia to the front page of The New York Times. Since the age of 4, Angy Rivera founder Xela de la X, a single mother and poet M.C. dedicated to recruiting an unapologetic, has lived in the United States with a dangerous secret: She is undocumented. Now 24, after misfit crew of women of color. The film intimately chronicles Xela as she struggles to strike years of living in the shadows, battling a complex and inequitable immigration system, and a balance between her activism and nine-year-old daughter Yoli; street artist Andi who is facing an uncertain future, Angy dons a bullhorn at pro-immigration rallies and proclaims she is estranged from her family and journeys to become a leader within the crew; and bright eyed “undocumented and proud.” Angy becomes an activist for undocumented youth, with a popular recruit Evie, who despite poverty, and the concerns of her protective Salvadoran mother, advice blog, a YouTube channel boasting more than 27,000 views, and a lot of courage; she discovers a newfound confidence. also steps out of the shadows to share her story of sexual abuse, an experience all too common The film OVARIAN PSYCOS rides along with the Ova’s, exploring the impact of the group’s for undocumented women. DON’T TELL ANYONE puts a human face on the immigration activism, born of feminist ideals, Indigenous understanding and an urban/hood mentality, on debate and is a vital addition to Women’s Studies, Law and Political Science courses. neighborhood women and communities as they confront injustice, racism, and violence, and US, 2015 | 75 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161172 take back their streets one ride at a time. US, 2016 | 72 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161191

• SF DocFest I highly recommend the movie to educators. I used the • SXSW Compelling portraits in grass-roots inspiration • Arlington Intl Film Festival “movie to show my law students the harsh realities of our • Hot Docs and“ female strength… unforgiving immigration system, and the psychological • Seattle Intl Film Festival - The Hollywood Reporter trauma that our clients have to endure in order to overcome ” the hurdles in their way to getting documented. • Human Rights Watch Film Festival • Frameline - Prerna Lal, Attorney, Undocumented Student Program,” UC Berkeley • Outfest

************************************************************ ************************************************************ NI AQUÍ NI ALLÁ THE LEARNING LAS MARTHAS I AM A GIRL (Neither Here, A film by Ramona Diaz A film by Cristina Ibarra A film by Rebecca Barry Nor There) THE LEARNING follows Of any demographic, A film by Gabriela In the lingering aftermath four Filipina teachers as women and girls suffer Bortolamedi of the US-Mexican War, they start a new life in the border town of Laredo the greatest effects of NI AQUÍ, NI ALLÁ America and chronicles created an annual violence, disease and illuminates the challenges their challenges as they debutante ball celebrating poverty. The life stories facing an undocumented work to gain the respect Martha Washington. Today, of six girls, from diverse college student and her of the mostly African- that gilded tradition is global backgrounds, family. Painting an intimate American students they carried on the shoulders of create a shared, urgent portrait of an undocumented are now charged with two Mexican-American girls portrait of what it means family as they support each teaching as they become during a time of economic to be a girl in the 21st other during a turning point in their lives, NI AQUÍ, NI part of the machinery of American education uncertainty and border tension. century. ALLÁ puts a very human face on an issue that many reform policy. use simply as partisan, political fodder.

6 VISIT WWW.WMM.COM FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG 212.925.0606 X 360 [email protected] 7 Masculinity Body Image & Sexuality ON BEAUTY MEN: A LOVE STORY A film by Joanna Rudnick A film by Mimi Chakarova A powerful story about redefining beauty from Emmy Award® nominated filmmaker Joanna After spending nearly a decade as a journalist documenting young women sold as slaves Rudnick (IN THE FAMILY) and Chicago’s Kartemquin Films, ON BEAUTY highlights the into the sex trade, award winning filmmaker Mimi Chakarova (THE PRICE OF SEX) sets lives — and faces — of two women who have been relegated to the shadows. Photographer out on a journey across the United States to explore how men feel about women and love. Rick Guidotti met Sarah and Jayne after he left the fashion world. Sarah, who has a large Piecing together a rich tapestry of vignettes, woven from stories shared by men of different Sturge-Weber birthmark on her face, had to leave public school in the eighth grade because races, ages, and socio-economic backgrounds, Chakarova weaves a stunningly honest and she was bullied so harshly. Jayne, living with albinism in Eastern Africa, faces social stigma unapologetic portrayal of masculinity in America. With a diverse set of subjects from tiny blues and danger, as witch doctors hunt people with her condition to sell their body parts. As Rick bars of the Deep South to the hedge funds of Manhattan and from ranchers in New Mexico to refocuses his lens away from fashion models to highlight these two (and other) extraordinary farmers in the Midwest, MEN: A LOVE STORY is a poignant and at times unforgettable dark subjects, ON BEAUTY offers a moving challenge to the narrow definition of beauty that comedy that reveals a deeper multilayered understanding of maleness, sexuality and gender constrains women around the world. performance in America today. US, 2015 | 31 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161169 US, 2016 | 80 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161187

• Cleveland Intl Film Festival, Jury A surefire way to begin discussions about beauty and The topic of love is a tough one to shred, but it seems to be the next logical step in finding Award, Best Documentary Short “the power of perception. - Candace Smith, Booklist out what men think about women and love. - Mission Local • Chicago, Intl Film Festival, “ Audience Award, Best Short Film ON BEAUTY is, quite ”simply, a masterful example of Mimi Chakarova’s new film is again a journey” into the heart. And this time in MEN we learn • Geneva Film Festival, Jury how cinema can serve as a humanizing force in the world. “ about the driving force of life – love - in its many manifestations. A must-see for anyone interested Award, Best Documentary Short We need films like this. - RogerEbert.com “ in the human heart, a stunningly beautiful film! • Sebastopol Documentary Film The film is an agent” for social change, encouraging - Gemma Cubero del Barrio, Filmmaker & Visiting Lecturer, Hawaii Pacific Univ & Univ of Hawaii Festival, Audience Award, Best discourse on society’s perceptions of beauty and ” Short “ normality.” - Newsweek ************************************************************ ************************************************************ THE FAT BODY INSIDE HER SEX THE PRICE A MAN WHEN (IN)VISIBLE HE’S A MAN A film by Sheona OF SEX A film by Valeria A film by Margitte McDonald A film by Mimi Chakarova Kristjansson Sarmiento In our highly sexualized Winner of the Nestor This insightful short film society, this thought- Almendros Award for Set in Costa Rica and features two striking, provoking documentary Courage in Filmmaking and touched with dark confident, and fashionable explores female sexuality the Daniel Pearl Award for humor, this stylistically women who face hostility and shame through the International Investigative imaginative classic because of their body size; eyes of a popular sex Journalism. THE PRICE OF documentary illuminates they speak candidly about blogger, an ex-devout SEX is an unprecedented the social climate and living in a world that wants Mormon and writer, and a and compelling inquiry cultural traditions which fat women to be invisible and finding a social media feminist adult film entrepreneur. into the underground criminal network of trafficked nurture machismo and allow the domination of community in which they refuse to hide. Eastern European women forced into prostitution women to flourish in Latin America. abroad.

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DEEP RUN THE SAME DIFFERENCE A film by Hillevi Loven. Produced by Chris Talbott and Samara Levenstein A film by Nneka Onuorah Executive produced by Susan Sarandon, DEEP RUN is a powerful verité portrait of trans life THE SAME DIFFERENCE is an absorbing documentary about lesbians who discriminate in rural North Carolina. Exiled by her family and rejected by an ex-partner, 17-year-old Spazz against other lesbians based on gender roles. The film is built on compelling conversations has no one to lean on for support. But when Spazz falls in love again and summons up the with self-identified studs—and the women who love them. It explores the frequently hetero- courage to become Cole, a strong-willed trans-man, his candid humor and steadfast, all- normative expectations of the African American lesbian and bisexual community, which mirror inclusive Christian beliefs counter the bigotry he experiences daily. the homophobia and male privilege of the straight world. Featuring recognizable queer voices This deeply personal documentary reveals rebirth and courage within America’s deeply like Felicia “Snoop” Pearson of HBO’s The Wire and Lea DeLaria from Netflix’s Orange is conservative Bible Belt as Cole struggles to find a church that will affirm his identity and the the New Black, this profound film shines light on the relationships and experiences within the couple’s relationship. With a small group of supportive friends, relatives, and his girlfriend, queer Black lesbian community. THE SAME DIFFERENCE is unprecedented material for Ashley, Cole’s search for love and belonging leads him to a radical revision of what faith and Women’s, Gender and Queer Studies classes. DEEP church can be. An intimate study of young outsiders in an insular Christian community, US, 2015 | 78 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161175 RUN explores the intersection of modern identity and faith in the American South. Essential viewing for LGBTQIA Audiences, Queer and Gender studies classes. • Audience Award for Outstanding THE SAME DIFFERENCE puts a spotlight on the US, 2015 | 75 mins | Sale $395 | $150 | #L161184 Documentary Feature, NewFest LGBT “black lesbian/bisexual community in a way that is Film Festival not only necessary, but long overdue. • Frameline - AfterEllen.com • Outfest Film Festival, Special An intimate look at what it’s like to come out not once • Out Fest Fusion ” Programming Award for “but twice in the Bible-steeped South…a sweet, admiring, Emerging Talent optimistic profile of a teen in transition. • Reel Affirmations LGBT Film Festival Consistently engaging… makes way for new • Austin Gay & Lesbian Intl Film - The Hollywood Reporter • QFest St Louis “questions, new answers, new discussions, new Festival, Best Documentary ” • Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival ways of knowing. Those interested in exploring gender identity, gender performances, gender roles, • DOC NYC ...a sensitive and compelling portrait...he personifies how • Q Films Long Beach gendered taboos should see it. - Tagg Magazine • Frameline “millennials will alter our culture’s attitudes on transgender • Sacramento Intl Gay and Lesbian Film • Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival rights, the plight of the undocumented, and religious Festival intolerance. - Susan Sarandon ” ************************************************************” ************************************************************ A BOY NAMED BOY I AM GIRL INSIDE LESBIANA: A Parallel Revolution SUE A film by Sam Feder A film by Maya Gallus. A film by Julie Wyman & Julie Hollar Produced by Justine A film by Myriam Fougère Pimlott and Maya Gallus An important exploration In the 60s and 70s, a Julie Wyman’s compelling of issues rarely touched Through three years of lesbian-feminist revolution documentary chronicles upon by most films 26-year-old Madison’s was born. This road trip the transformation of a portraying female-to- transition from male to revisits the activists, transsexual named Theo male (FTM) transgender female, her glamorous, artists, and second-wave from a woman to a man experiences, BOY I old-fashioned grandmother feminists who established over the course of six AM at once promotes Vivien takes on the job women-only communities years. Wyman carefully understanding of trans- of advising her on all and created a vibrant, rich composes a moving story gender issues for general things feminine, creating culture all their own. about gender identity, audiences, while also encouraging conversations a sometimes funny, sometimes painful, and deeply relationships, and how even things that seem heretofore unexplored between the lesbian, femi- profound examination of what it means to be a permanent can change. nist and transgender communities. woman.

10 VISIT WWW.WMM.COM FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG 212.925.0606 X 360 [email protected] 11 African American Studies African American Studies THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS OF ANGELA BOWEN WILHEMINA’S WAR A film by Jennifer Abod A film by June Cross An inspiring film by award winning documentary filmmaker Jennifer Abod, PhD (THE EDGE Broadcast nationally on Independent Lens, WILHEMINA’S WAR is an intimate narrative of OF EACH OTHER’S BATTLES: THE VISION OF AUDRE LORDE). PASSIONATE PURSUITS one family’s struggle with HIV over the course of five years, amidst the AIDS epidemic in provides a window into the life of Angela Bowen who grew up in inner city Boston during the American communities in the rural south. Emmy Award® winning journalist and professor Jim Crow era, and went on to become a classical ballerina, a legendary dance teacher, a black June Cross follows the story of 62-year-old Wilhemina Dixon, who works tirelessly to combat lesbian feminist activist organizer, writer and professor. For six decades Bowen has influenced stigma and care for her HIV-positive daughter and granddaughter. Wilhemina is a one- and inspired untold numbers, speaking out as strongly for the arts, and Black and women’s rights woman army, fighting against systemic dehumanization resulting from centuries of racism as she has for LGBT rights. Candid, compelling, and inspiring, PASSIONATE PURSUITS depicts and a shameful lack of access to treatment. Her story touches on many structural issues Bowen’s life across the decades, with archival footage, timeless musical selections, photographs that contribute to the alarming trend of HIV-positive women in the South, including lack of and interviews. Bowen’s stories reveal how the challenges of race, class, gender, age, and education as well as silence and stigma in local church congregations. At the intersection of sexuality played into her decisions and strategies for survival. PASSIONATE PURSUITS is poverty, race, politics and women’s health, this urgent documentary shows the triumph of the important to anyone who wants to know more about the experiences and complexities of Black human spirit, and is essential viewing for African-American Studies and Public Health courses. women’s lives and the emergence of Black Feminism. US, 2015 | 53 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161182 US, 2016 | 73 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161176 • QFest Cinema St. Louis Jennifer Abod’s documentary film is inspirational, • DOC NYC … a brilliant job of seamlessly weaving the • New Haven Intl Film Festival “informative, complex, humorous, a must-see for • Black Hollywood African American “personal stories of courage in the face of tragedy, Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and Queer Studies Film Festival with the important task of providing accurate • The Roxbury Intl Film Festival classrooms. information about the social and political context • Outside the Frame: Radical Queer - Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Professor, Women’s Studies, • Pan African American Film Festival in which the AIDS epidemic is growing. Film Festival Spelman College” - Gloria Ayee, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, Duke University ” …inspiring and illuminating…conveys a vital “authenticity in the telling of the life’s work and journey of an exceptional black feminist, dancer, mother and social justice organizer. - Emery Grant, Stonewall National Museum & Archives ************************************************************” ************************************************************ LIVING REFLECTIONS STANDING ON LOVE & DIANE THINKERS: UNHEARD: MY SISTERS’ A film by Jennifer Dworkin An Autobiography of Black Women in SHOULDERS Jennifer Dworkin’s Black Women in the Civil Rights groundbreaking, award- Ivory Tower A film by Joan Sadoff, Dr. A film by Nevline Nnaji Robert Sadoff and Laura winning film presents A film by Roxana J. Lipson a searingly honest and Walker-Canton This film unearths the moving examination of story of Black women, A poignant look at the poverty, welfare and drug Black women professors overlooked by both the Civil Rights movement in rehabilitation in the US and administrators in US male-dominated Black Mississippi taken directly today. The film casts a colleges and universities Power movement and from the oral testimony of nonjudgmental eye and face the intersection of the largely white and middle-class second wave the courageous women presents a forgotten, but race, class, gender and academia in these inspiring feminist movement, mobilizing against political who lived it. These Mississippi women risked their very real, side of the American experience. personal stories, from girlhoods spent in segregated marginalization. lives to bring about change and altered the course of schools to the triumphs of their adult careers. American history forever.

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Criminal Justice & Race Photo credit: David Rivolier PROFILED TOO BLACK TO BE FRENCH A film by Kathleen Foster A film by Isabelle Boni-Claverie PROFILED knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latino youth murdered by the NYPD into Isabelle Boni-Claverie explores the role of race and the persistence of racism in France a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical through the lens of her own family and personal history, as the granddaughter of an African context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Some of the victims—Eric Garner, Michael Brown—are man from the Ivory Coast who married a white French woman in the 1930s. Boni-Claverie now familiar the world over. Others, like Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray, are remembered mostly grew up in upper class French society; in TOO BLACK TO BE FRENCH, she unpacks how by family and friends in their New York neighborhoods. socio-economic privilege doesn’t afford protection from racial discrimination. Interviews Ranging from the routine harassment of minority students in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood with French minorities who regularly face discrimination and commentary from acclaimed to the killings and protests in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri, PROFILED bears witness sociologists and historians help to peel back the layers of race relations in a supposedly to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for people of color in this country. Moving institutionally colorblind country with a thorny colonial history. Though the history is different, interviews with victims’ family members are juxtaposed with sharply etched analyses by the issues raised offers a contextualized perspective on the African diaspora experience in the evolutionary biologist, Joseph L. Graves, Jr, (The Race Myth) and civil rights lawyer, Chauniqua United States and beyond. D. Young, (Center for Constitutional Rights, Stop and Frisk lawsuit). PROFILED gives us a France, 2015 | 52 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161189 window into one of the most burning issues of our time. US, 2016 | 52 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161190

… thought-provoking…shows the continued stark disparities in our racial justice system, the …a compelling documentary that discloses, in a frank and honest way, a rarely seen “issue of racial profiling is not a new one; rather it aims to keep our attention trained on it so that example“ of racism outside of the U.S. Focusing on the popular debate about racism as it relates we may create solutions. to nationality, colorism and classism, the filmmaker’s attempt to discover her own French roots - Helen Yuen, Reginald F. Lewis” Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture takes the viewer along on her journey. - Michelle Materre, The School of Media Studies, The New School ... powerful documentary and a crucial contribution to the discussion of race and racism in ” “America. - Pat Keeton, Prof. of Communication Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey ” ************************************************************ ************************************************************ THE GREY AREA: MOTHERS OF SAY MY NAME THE GRACE LEE Feminism Behind Bars BEDFORD A film by Nirit Peled PROJECT A film by Noga Ashkenazi A film by Grace Lee In a hip hop and R&B world A film by Jenifer Pursuing the moving dominated by men and THE GREY AREA looks McShane target of Asian-American noted for misogyny, these at the transformative female identity, the In the US, 80% of today’s unstoppable female lyricists, experience of studying filmmaker plunges into a female inmates are from hip hop’s birthplace in feminism behind bars. clever, highly unscientific mothers of school-age the Bronx to London, Detroit A group of female inmates investigation of Grace children. MOTHERS OF and points in-between, at a maximum security Lees who break the BEDFORD follows five speak candidly about Iowa prison delve into mold – from a fiery social incarcerated women as class, race, and gender in eye-opening issues of activist to a Grace Lee they learn to raise their pursuing their passions as race, class, sexuality and gender. who tried to burn down her sons and daughters from behind bars, dealing with female MCs and artists. all the hardships and the hope that comes from high school. With wit and charm, this film challenges reconstructing familial bonds in these difficult and the cultural investments made in the idea of Grace strained circumstances. Lee, all the while sending her a love letter. 65 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161093 96 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161109 73 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | # L16970 68 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L16896

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SOUTHERN RITES VOICES OF MUSLIM WOMEN FROM THE US SOUTH A film by Gillian Laub A film by Maha Marouan & Rachel Raimist Broadcast nationally on HBO, SOUTHERN RITES portrays a modern American town divided When one thinks of the American Deep South, the image of veiled Muslim students strolling along historic racial lines. Filmmaker and photographer Gillian Laub first published controversial the University of Alabama campus is the last thing that comes to mind. VOICES OF MUSLIM images of a small Georgia town’s racially segregated high school proms in 2009 in The New WOMEN FROM THE US SOUTH is a documentary that explores Muslim culture through York Times Magazine. In the ensuing media furor, the town was finally forced to integrate the the lens of five University of Alabama Muslim students. The film tackles how Muslim women proms, and Laub returned to document the changes. What she captured was a series of events, carve a space for self-expression in the Deep South and how they negotiate their identities in including the murder of a young, unarmed Black man by an elderly white town patriarch, and a a predominantly Christian society that often has unflattering views about Islam and Muslims. historic campaign to elect the first African-American sheriff, that reveal the deep wounds and Through interviews with students and faculty at Alabama, this film examines representations complex fabric of racial strife in the Deep South. With extraordinary candor and immediacy, Laub and issues of agency by asking: How do Muslim female students carve a space in a culture chronicles the intertwined lives of people in a world caught between eras and ultimately asks that thinks of Muslims as terrorists and Muslim women as backward? whether a new generation can make a different future for itself from a difficult past. A vital film for discussions on race and for American, Southern, and African-American studies and in Political US, 2015 | 32 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $150 | #L161179 Science classrooms. US, 2015 | 87 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161183

• Tribeca Film Festival Riveting... a portrait of the inequities that lead to disaster on ...the voices in this film ring true, pure, proud and enlightened. VOICES tackles head on the plethora of • Hot Docs “the streets of cities like Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo. “stereotypes about Muslim women…all in simple, accessible and refreshing clarity. • Atlanta Intl Documentary Film - The New York Times - Azza Karam, Senior Advisor on Culture, UNFPA Festival ” ” This excellent documentary puts a small Southern county • National Center for Race Amity This sensitive film draws us into the compelling life-stories of Muslim female students… beset by racial tensions under the microscope. Conference “ recommended for all who need or seek intercultural understanding. - The Hollywood Reporter “ • Big Sky Film Festival ” - Rosalind I. J. Hackett, PhD, Dept.of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee” This documentary is at similar times heartbreaking, but incredibly“ affecting. - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show ************************************************************” ************************************************************ A PLACE OF OLD SOUTH RIGHTS & FEMINISM RAGE A film by Danielle Beverly WRONGS: INSHALLAH: A film by Pratibha Parmar The Story of Women A History of Arab When a confederate-flag- in Islam Feminism This celebration of African flying fraternity in Georgia A film by Feriel Ben American women features moves into a historically A film by Corine Huq Mahmoud interviews with Angela Black neighborhood, Davis, June Jordan and the ensuring three-year This thoughtful and far This groundbreaking Alice Walker. Within the neighborhood struggle reaching film is an essential documentary explores context of the civil rights, provides a window into resource that debunks Arab feminism, a century- Black power and feminist American race relations. myths about women and deep history that is rarely movements, the trio Islam. The film alternates told in terms beyond reassesses how women such as Rosa Parks and between the history of the Western-Islamic Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society. Mohammad and issues facing Muslim women today. conflict stereotypes. FEMINISM INSHALLAH is It also looks at how feminism works within Islam in an indispensable resource for Women’s Studies, the modern era. Global Feminism, Middle East and Islamic Studies. 52 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L16364 54 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161156 135 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161073 52 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161152

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Violence Against Women UNAFRAID: BRAVE MISS WORLD Voices From the Crime Victims Treatment Center A film by Cecilia Peck. Produced by Cecilia Peck, Inbal B. Lessner & Motty Reif A film by Karin Venegas In October 1998, eighteen-year-old Linor Abargil was stabbed and raped while working as a model in Milan. Weeks later she was crowned Israel’s first Miss World. Over the course of UNAFRAID gives voice to four diverse rape survivors and shares the history of the pioneering five years, director Cecilia Peck (Shut Up & Sing) follows Abargil, on a mission to confront the treatment center where they receive counseling. At the Crime Victims’ Treatment Center, trauma of her past, including a hunt for other victims of the man who raped her, preventing his two unsung feminist heroes of the 1970s made huge strides in victims’ rights and invented parole. Abargil, a poised, magnetic and supremely empathic advocate travels from Hollywood the rape kit, a tool frequently referenced in popular culture, but whose origins are relatively to rape crisis centers, American college campuses and the townships of South Africa to share unknown. UNAFRAID is the first film to address the grassroots genesis of this important her story and inspire others to confront shame and to heal. Emmy nominated BRAVE MISS tool, which not only made it easier to convict rapists in the criminal justice system but helped WORLD is a call for justice and a startlingly honest portrayal of how personal tragedy can be shape our cultural acceptance of rape as a serious crime worthy of prosecution, and survivors transformed into a global awareness campaign against sexual violence. as worthy of compassionate treatment. The collage of voices in this deeply personal film show social change is possible, including in the criminal justice system. Essential viewing for This special edition includes both the theatrical version (88min) and the educational version Criminal Justice, Law and Women’s Studies Classrooms. (60min), which is tightly paced and specifically designed for student audiences. Also included are exclusive bonus scenes, a report by Gloria Allred on a previously unpublished campus US, 2014 | 44 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161170 rape investigation, survivor testimonials and filmmaker interviews. US/Israel/South Africa/Italy, 2013 | 88 + 60 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161194, • Trenton Film Festival, Best UNAFRAID offers a timely, relatable, and poignant Documentary Short Award look at sexual assault…ideal for a college setting. It is an “ • Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, Impassioned and inspiring… - LA Times • Show Me Justice Film Festival, excellent springboard for discussion, support, advocacy, and Best Documentary, Audience Award Jury Award for Excellence action. “ • JFilm Pittsburgh, Best Documentary The coming together of two remarkable” women, • Global Peace Film Festival - Professor Sara Haviland, American Studies / History, ” Audience Award “Linor and documentary filmmaker Cecilia Peck. • Queens World Film Festival St. Francis College • Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Best - Amy Goodman, Democracy Now ” • College Town Film Festival UNAFRAID served as an important teaching tool for our Documentary, Audience Award A riveting documentary. A courageous celebration • Peace on Earth Film Festival community of future lawyers and advocates. • AFI Docs “ “of survival… - Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cara Cookson, Esq., Vermont Law School ” • DOC NYC ************************************************************ ************************************************************” SIN BY SILENCE LIFE AFTER IT WAS RAPE I HAD AN A film by Olivia Klaus MANSON A film by Jennifer ABORTION Baumgardner A film by Olivia Klaus A film by Gillian One of WMM’s best-selling Aldrich and Jennifer titles on domestic violence, An epidemic of sexual When she was 21, assault in the U.S. has Baumgardner SIN BY SILENCE, shatters Patricia Krenwinkel perpetuated for decades Breaking the stigma on misconceptions and murdered three people through denial and victim- discussing abortion, reveals the extraordinary on Charles Manson’s blaming. Through diverse 10 women (including lives of women who command. Through an women’s voices, IT WAS Gloria Steinem) candidly have killed their abusers. exclusive interview with RAPE sparks needed describe experiences Updated with information Krenwinkel, now 66, LIFE dialogue about rape culture from the 1930s to the on the 2012 California AFTER MANSON tells an on college campuses and present day in this legislation inspired by the irreconcilable story with a complex emotional lens. film and new bonus beyond. powerful, poignant, and fiercely honest film. material.

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Violence Against Women DREAMCATCHER PRIVATE VIOLENCE INDIA’S DAUGHTER A film by Kim Longinotto A film by Cynthia Hill A film by Leslee Udwin This Sundance award-winning film dives into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking Emmy Award nominated PRIVATE Peabody Award-winning INDIA’S in Chicago, where survivor Brenda Myers-Powell, a former teenage prostitute, defied the odds to VIOLENCE, which premiered at Sundance, DAUGHTER is the powerful story of the become a powerful advocate for change. As Brenda, unflinching and warm, works to help women explores a simple but deeply disturbing fact brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23 year and young girls break the cycle of poverty, neglect and sexual exploitation, the film lays bare the of American life: the most dangerous place old medical student, who later died from hidden violence that devastates their lives, their families, and the communities where they live. for a woman in America is her own home. her injuries. Banned in India even before Through the eyes of two survivors — Deanna its BBC broadcast, the film has ignited an With unprecedented access, multi-award winning director Kim Longinotto (SISTERS IN LAW, Walters, a mother who seeks justice for the international fury with more than 50 million ROUGH AUNTIES, SALMA) shows a community struggling to come to terms with some of its crimes committed against her at the hands social media posts and tweets. The film most painful truths. An up-close portrait of the human stories happening between and under the of her estranged husband, and Kit Gruelle, pays tribute to a remarkable young woman urban criminal justice system and of the hope and redemption Brenda gives to those who have an advocate who seeks justice for all and lays bare the way in which societies none, in the four magic words she offers up: “It’s not your fault.” women — PRIVATE VIOLENCE begins to around the world and their patriarchal values

shape powerful, new questions that hold the have spawned such acts of violence against UK, 2015 | 98 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161168 potential to change our society: “Why does women. A must-see film and an impassioned he abuse?” “Why do we turn away?” “How do plea for change. • Sundance Film Festival, Directing …a moving portrait of someone who might we begin to build a future without domestic Award, World Cinema Documentary 62 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161161 “just qualify for secular sainthood… Longinotto violence?” • DOC NYC, Robert & Anne Drew Award deftly balances character and context, for Documentary Excellence capturing telling moments where subjects reveal 77 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161151 • Zagreb Dox “My Generation” Award themselves in an instant. Ms. Udwin’s film has increased worldwide • San Francisco Intl Film - The Hollywood Reporter There have been many documentaries awareness“ of attitudes that beget sexual ” violence against women. Festival “Persistence of Vision” Award “on this topic...none can touch the power, • Nordic Docs, Icon Award …remarkable for the honest, intimate sensitivity, and explanatory skill of this - The New York Times ” “rapport it achieves with highly vulnerable human one. - Vulture subjects. - Variety India’s Daughter is a necessary watch... ” “- The Independent ” ************************************************************” ************************************************************ PINK SARIS SALMA INVOKING SAVING FACE A film by Kim Longinotto A film by Kim Longinotto JUSTICE A film by Daniel Junge & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Internationally acclaimed Salma defied her village A film by Deepa Dhanraj Winner of two Emmy® director Kim Longinotto and became the most In Southern India, domestic Awards and the gives an unflinching famous Tamil poet in disputes are settled by Academy® Award for and often amusing look Southern India. In all male Jamaats that apply Best Documentary, at Sampat Pal, the SALMA, which premiered Islamic Sharia law to cases SAVINGFACE is a charismatic leader of the at Sundance, master in the absence of women. harshly realistic look all-women vigilante Gulabi documentarian Kim Recognizing this inequity, at the many Pakistani Gang in Northern India, Longinotto employs a group of women women victimized in who acts as judge and jury breathtaking, evocative established a women’s punitive acid attacks, and for girls and women who verité to create a complex portrait of this luminous Jamaat. INVOKING JUSTICE follows these the plastic surgeon who abandoned a successful are being abused by outlawed patriarchal traditions. artist. Jamaats, highlighting the leaders’ dedication and London practice to help them rebuild their lives. compassion throughout each investigation.

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FORGETTING VIETNAM PEOPLE ARE THE SKY: Inside North Korea A film by Trinh T. Minh-ha, Produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier A film by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is the first Korean American filmmaker to receive official government whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam’s curving permission to film inside the borders of North Korea. PEOPLE ARE THE SKY, Kim-Gibson’s S-shaped coastline. Influential feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s lyrical film eighth and most personal film, documents her first pilgrimage in nearly 70 years to her place essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from of birth. As she explores whether her hometown is still “home,” Kim-Gibson seamlessly ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture. weaves her life story in with the fractious history of the division between North and South Minh-ha’s classic Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) used no original footage shot in Korea, giving Americans a much better understanding of the roots of the conflict. With a mix the country; in FORGETTING VIETNAM images of contemporary life unfold as a dialogue of interviews and graceful, epic images, PEOPLE ARE THE SKY is both a contemplative between land and water—the elements that form the term “country”. Fragments of text and exploration of the meaning of home and a compelling political and social profile of North song evoke the echoes and traces of a trauma of international proportions. The encounter Korea. This is a startling and unprecedented film, an up-close look at the contradictions and between the ancient as related to the solid earth, and the new as related to the liquid changes aspirations of a demonized nation. in a time of rapid globalization, creates a third space of historical and cultural re-memory— what local inhabitants, immigrants and veterans remember of yesterday’s stories to comment US, 2015 | 94 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161188 on today’s events.

US/South Korea/Germany, 2015 | 90 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $175 | #L161192 • Korean American Film Festival, New York [Kim-Gibson] is determined to bring the • Louisville Intl Film Festival voices“ of the voiceless to the screen and people who are often overlooked. And so she • Cinéma du Réel • Hawaii Intl Film Festival has attempted through her films to humanize • Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival • LA Asian Pacific Film Festival the world. - Mary Elizabeth Moore, Dean, Boston University” School of Theology

************************************************************ ************************************************************ SURNAME VIET REASSEMBLAGE MOTHERLAND SURVIVING THE GIVEN NAME A film by Trinh T. Minh-ha CUBA KOREA TSUNAMI: USA NAM REASSEMBLAGE, the My Atomic Aunt A film by Trinh T. Minh-ha award winning and now A film by Dai Sil A film by Kyoko Miyake classic film by scholar Kim-Gibson Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Filmmaker Kyoko Trinh T. Minh-ha poses In Cuba, first-generation profoundly personal the question: how does Miyake returns to her documentary explores Korean-American Dai hometown in the wake the prism of observation Sil Kim-Gibson weaves the role of Vietnamese we traditionally bring to of the devastating women historically and in together compelling Fukushima meltdown viewing cultures outside stories from a relatively contemporary society. of our own disturb them? and investigates her unknown group in the community’s complicated An essential film for Asian diaspora, exploring discussion of documentary practice, ethnography history and the how we determine our ethnic, national, and cultural and representation. longstanding nuclear tensions embedded within loyalties in a globalized society. many of Japan’s national crises.

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ABSENCES (AUSENCIAS) THE ROOM OF BONES (EL CUARTO DE LOS HUESOS) A film by Tatiana Huezo A film by Marcela Zamora Chamorro Award-winning filmmaker Tatiana Huezo, widely celebrated for her extraordinary film THE THE ROOM OF BONES follows a group of forensic anthropologists in El Salvador, tasked TINIEST PLACE, brings her haunting and sensitive portrayal of epidemic violence back to with the noble but gruesome work of unearthing and identifying human remains from mass the screen in ABSENCES. The film tells the story of Lulu, whose son and husband were graves. They work against the backdrop of a meteoric rise in desaparecidos, or missing snatched off the road by armed men, victims in the ever-intensifying phenomenon of enforced persons, across Central America in the past twenty years. Mass murder has become disappearance in Mexico. Left alone with her daughter, Lulu decides to speak against the rampant, with the identity of the perpetrators shrouded in the mysterious networks between suffocating silence, and after five years of a life in a limbo, her story gives way to desire, hope, governments, gangs, and other criminal organizations. As civil and legal systems have failed and the struggle to find her family alive. This hauntingly beautiful short film illuminates the to thoroughly investigate the crisis, families of victims are left to seek closure and justice effects of disappearances on women, and broadens our awareness about the far-reaching on their own. Following four mothers as they search for their children’s bodies, Salvadorian human implications in Central America of the U.S. drug war. filmmaker Marcela Zamora Chamorro creates a harrowing portrait of a region in crisis, through the lens of forensic anthropology. Mexico /El Salvador, 2015 | 28 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161178 El Salvador/Mexico, 2015 | 61 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161177

• Ambulante Film Festival A poignant film on a part of current • Margaret Mead Film Festival The Room of Bones is a necessary work • Visions du Reel Intl Documentary Mexican“ history that must be told at all • Intl Film Festival & Forum on Human Rights that“ provides testimony to the catastrophic Film Festival costs. - Visions du Reel Film Festival Geneva legacies of violence that continue to plague • Morelia Intl Film Festival • Ambulante Film Festival El Salvador… This work makes the bold claim that, however harrowing, these images and • Best Mexican Short Film Award, Guanajuato The” attractiveness of this work resides • Jihlava Intl Documentary Film Festival Intl Film Festival in its subtlety, intensity, pulse, honesty, these voices must form part of our public “ • Costa Rica Film Festival awareness. • Best Short, DocsDF, Intl Documentary strength… • Icaro Film Festival Festival Mexico - Alberto Acuña Navarijo, Traditional Cinema - Pauline Suárez, Ambulante Film Festival ” • Panorama Brazil ” ************************************************************ ************************************************************ LAS MADRES: ABUELAS: MARIA IN CHILDREN OF The Mothers of Grandmothers on NOBODY’S MEMORY Plaza de Mayo a Mission LAND A film by Kathryn Smith A film by Noemi Weis A film by Susana Pyle & Maria Teresa A film by Marcela Zamora Blaustein and A generation of Rodríguez Chamorro Lourdes Portillo children, whose parents Grappling with tangled disappeared during An unprecedented look at This Academy® award- issues of identity, history Argentina’s “Dirty three Salvadorian women nominated documentary and justice in an El War,” were kidnapped, making the illegal and about the Argentinian Salvador still reeling from relocated to families extremely dangerous mothers’ movement to Civil War, CHILDREN linked with the regime, trek into the US through demand to know the OF MEMORY follows the and raised on a lie. Mexican territory. fate of 30,000 “disappeared” children remains search for hundreds of disappeared children, many Their abuelas, or grandmothers, have been trying These women navigate unimaginable obstacles as extraordinarily powerful as when it was first of whom survived massacres at the hands of a to make contact with them for decades — with including rape, kidnapping and even death, risking released. U.S.-trained Salvadorian army. inspiring and controversial results. everything for a chance at a better life.

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PORTRAITS OF A SEARCH BEAUTIFUL SIN (RETRATOS DE UNA BÚSQUEDA) A film by Gabriela Quirós A film by Alicia Calderón Broadcast nationally on PBS, BEAUTIFUL SIN tells a surprising reproductive rights story More than 20,000 people disappeared in Mexico during the horrifically violent war on drugs that resonates from Central America to legislative debates in the United States. What if you waged by former President Calderon. With each missing person, a family is left behind in a desperately wanted a baby, but your country and religion prohibited you from trying the one desperate search to get answers from a government that is suspiciously ambivalent. Putting medical treatment that could help? In 2000, Costa Rican anti-abortion activists, with the help a human face on the most harrowing of statistics, director Alicia Calderon courageously of the Catholic Church and a U.S. group, won a legal case banning in vitro fertilization (IVF). captures the stories of three mothers - Natividad, Guadalupe, and Margarita - as they search No other country has outlawed the treatment; the case gave the embryo unprecedented legal for their children who have gone missing. One mother constantly retraces the last steps of rights. Filmmaker Gabriela Quirós charts the decade-long emotional journey of three couples her son, combing empty fields for his body; another travels all the way to Washington, DC, to struggling with infertility who take the Costa Rican government before an international human rights court. It’s a universal story about what happens when state power and religious ideology plead for US intervention; and the last simply tries to forget the emptiness and raise her now- clash with the desire to have a child. motherless grandson. In one of the most powerful documentaries about the human casualties of the Mexican narco-wars, these women’s stories are among the many that stand for truth Costa Rica/USA, 2014 | 56 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161185 and justice for the 26,000 missing people in Mexico today. With their lives now completely devoted to seeking out the truth, they pursue any avenue possible, in the face of an indifferent government which considers their loved ones to be “collateral casualties” of the drug war. • Cine Las Americas A mesmerizing film… Anyone who is • San Diego Latino Film Festival concerned“ about the state’s control of women’s Mexico, 2015 | 74 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161171 bodies will find the film chilling. • Chicago Latino Intl Film Festival - Lori B. Andrews, Director, Inst for Science, Law and • Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival One of the most powerful documentaries about • San Francisco Latino Film Festival Technology, Chicago-Kent College” of Law, IL Inst of • Sheffield Doc/Fest the“ human casualties of the Mexican drug wars. Technology • Ambulante Film Festival - Heather Haynes, HotDocs • Thessaloniki Documentary Festival ” Beautifully crafted. I use it in my Yale seminar course ‘Reproductive Technologies: Global • FEMCINE Chile A film that transcends borders and countries…. “ that“ touches the deepest fibers of being. Perspectives. - Jury, Monterrey Intl Film Festival - Marcia C. Inhorn, Anthropology and Int’l Affairs, ” Yale UniversityTH” ************************************************************ ************************************************************ MAESTRA SEÑORITA MADE IN INDIA: THE EXTRAVIADA, A film by Catherine A Film About MOTHERHOOD Murphy MISSING Surrogacy ARCHIVES Cuba, 1961: 250,000 YOUNG WOMAN A film by Rebecca A film by Irene Lusztig volunteers taught 700,000 Haimowitz & Vaishali Sinha A film by Lourdes Portillo Weaving together over people to read and write An intimate look at the 100 archival educational in one year. 100,000 Portillo’s critically phenomena of “outsourcing” films, science fiction of the teachers were acclaimed, award winning surrogate mothers to India, and homages to 70s under 18 years old and film on the kidnapping MADE IN INDIA shows feminist filmmaking, over half of them were and murder of women in the journey of an infertile THE MOTHERHOOD women. Through gripping Cuidad Juarez, Mexico. American couple, an ARCHIVES is a personal testimony, Still the most widely Indian surrogate and the lyrical essay on the MAESTRA tells the story of these women, who left used film on the subject, it explores the layers of reproductive outsourcing business that brings them hidden history of childbirth in the 20th century, a their homes to teach literacy in rural communities complicity that have allowed these brutal murders together. fascinating course from anesthetic ether to Lamaze. and returned deeply transformed to continue.

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Photo credit: Environment & Feminism FEED THE GREEN: Feminist Voices for the Earth GIRL FROM GOD’S COUNTRY: Boise State University Special Archives A film by Jane Caputi, Produced by Susan Rosenkranz A History of Women in Film With a contemporary lens on pop culture at the intersection of feminism and environmentalism, A film by Karen Day FEED THE GREEN: Feminist Voices fr the Earth challenges our cultural imagination about Gender parity for women filmmakers is a hot button topic this year. GIRL FROM GOD’S environmental destruction. Gender studies scholar Jane Caputi highlights an active global COUNTRY: A History of Women in Film, explores the historical roots of the problem with resistance movement fighting to show that environmental destruction reflects and amplifies the untold story of Nell Shipman, a silent screen film pioneer, and brings the issues up to date social injustice. How does men’s violence against women parallel violence against Earth? Why with recent interviews with leading women experts on the status of women filmmakers. Nell are the ill effects of environmental damage felt disproportionately by those who face racial and Shipman, a pioneering woman who rewrote the rules of filmmaking, and, in so doing, paved the socioeconomic inequalities? way for independent voices – especially prominent female voices in today’s film industry. Her Featuring gender and disability activists, poets and bloggers, scholars and ecofeminist theorists storylines of self-reliant women overcoming physical challenges in the wilderness, shattered like Annie Sprinkle, Vandana Shiva and Andrea Smith, FEED THE GREEN raises radical the predictable cinematic formulas of large studio productions. Featuring rare archival footage questions about how an environmentally destructive worldview is embedded in advertising, by early pioneers including Zora Neale Hurston and Miriam Wong, and present day interviews myth, art, and the news. An eye-opener for students in Women’s and Environmental Studies with Geena Davis and scholar Kay Armatage. GIRL FROM GOD’S COUNTRY discusses how as well as Pop Culture and Media Studies courses. gender-inequities that Shipman and her counterparts faced perpetuate in today’s film industry. Emblematic of an entire lost generation of female producers and directors in silent film, Nell US, 2015 | 37 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161186 Shipman’s legacy has remained a buried treasure in film history for nearly 100 years. Required viewing for Women’s and Cinema Studies.

Using telling and often beautiful imagery and astute commentary from many feminist leaders, US, 2016 | 66 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161174 “the film persuasively argues that abuse of women and other oppressed groups goes hand in hand with abuse of the planet. - Kathy Rudy, PhD, Professor, Women’s Studies, Duke University • Best Documentary of Cannes GIRL FROM GOD’S COUNTRY dovetails into a bigger Jane Caputi’s intersectional” film brings together a range of environmental feminist voices. World Cinema Initiative “examination of women in film, past, present and future; and “Weaving those voices with images both past and present, both common and from the margins, • Bentonville Film Festival audiences will leave with a call to action to support more she skillfully summons a green consciousness already in the making. • Sun Valley Film Festival women filmmakers. - Boise Weekly - Suzanne Kelly, PhD., Author of Greening Death ” • Female Eye Film Festival ” ************************************************************ ************************************************************ FEMINIST: MY FEMINISM GOLDEN GATE ANNA MAY Stories from Women’s GIRLS WONG: Liberation A film by Dominique Cardona & Laurie Colbert A film by S. Louisa Wei In Her Own Words A film by Jennifer Lee An essential component A prominent woman A film by Yunah Hong This personal journey of of Women’s Studies director in 1930s Hong rediscovery brings the curricula, MY FEMINISM Kong, the only woman Anna May Wong, one of momentous first decade introduces feminism’s key directing features for the few actors to success- of second-wave feminism themes while exposing the much of the 1940s, and fully transition from silent vividly to life. cultural fears underlying an open lesbian — Esther to sound cinema, spent lesbian baiting, backlash, Eng’s overlooked place in most of her career playing and political extremism. film history is restored in stereotypes; a new GOLDEN GATE GIRLS. generation of Asian Americans reclaims her as a pioneering artist in this engrossing and imaginative exploration of a hostile Hollywood environment— that hasn’t altogether changed. 64 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161137 55 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | # L16593 90 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161154 56 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161064

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