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1) Long Haulers
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From 77 year-old Sandi, to formerly incarcerated Lori, to guinea pig lover Tracy, LONG HAULERS defies stereotypes and gives a platform to women who have often been marginalized and type-casted. Sharing their sorrows and triumphs, viewers learn who these women are, and what keeps them trucking.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A short, animated documentary that consists entirely of archival film, hand drawings, clip art, and the voices of children talking about family and parenting outside of the traditional binary. The film premiered at Outfest where it was voted “One of 10 Must-See Films” by Indiewire, played at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Mountainfilm in Telluride, Nantucket, the Hamptons, Mill Valley, and over fifty film festivals around the world....
3) La Maestra
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The Philharmonie de Paris and the Paris Mozart Orchestra are organizing the first edition of the International Competition for Female Conductors. The aim is to give female talent the visibility it deserves, to encourage vocations and to encourage programmers to take into account the diversity of our societies.
4) Periodical
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In our era of social media-empowered feminism, after centuries of societal-enforced stigma, menstruation has finally begun to bleed out into the mainstream. We’re finally using red liquid instead of blue in period product ads, seeing beauty influencers use their period blood for facials on social media, and even the most daring period scenes are being depicted on tv — but we still know alarmingly little when it comes to menstruation. And we still...
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
One of the first independent films of the early Women’s Movement. For women brought up in the soap commercial optimism of the time, it articulated the fear which caught them unawares as they found themselves isolated in their homes, cleaning up after their children, and dreaming of the careers they might have had. This brief portrait of a young mother grew out of the experiences of a group of women who found - as they haltingly expressed to one...
6) Sewing Woman
Pub. Date
1982.
Description
Chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman’s determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America. Produced in 1982 and Oscar®-nominated for Best Short Documentary, this classic film continues to screen widely and is now treasured by a new generation of film goers.SEWING WOMAN is based on a series of oral histories and the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, Zem Ping Dong, an immigrant...
8) I Am Skylar
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The emotionally compelling story of an articulate 14-year-old girl who is thoughtfully defining her future and the woman she is to become. Surrounded by a family and a community who show her unconditional love as she follows her personal path, Skylar faces the complexities of being a transgender girl on the cusp of puberty with refreshing honesty and unshakeable dignity.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Women's rights, gay rights, anti-war protests: Holly Near's music speaks directly to the world's young political activists of today. The singer-songwriter's soaring anthems call for peace, feminism, LGBTQ equality, and all human rights. This new award-winning music doc (seen on PBS' American Masters series) features outstanding concert and rally scenes, and insights from Holly today. From 4 time Emmy winner Jim Brown. New interviews with Gloria Steinem,...
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Explores the life and times of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton. The film tells her story of awakening to gay life in the 1950’s, the women’s liberation movement and lesbian-feminism, drag culture, and forging a butch identity that for her is in conversation with trans-masculinity. Keenly attuned to the societal forces that shaped her life, Esther guides us through an anthropology of herself, a study influenced by her love for a sport –...
11) Exit
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A journey out of the heart of human trafficking. Three women who were looking for a way out of their extreme poverty found themselves at the heart of human trafficking networks. EXIT is not a straight road and many don't make it to the end.
12) Eat the Kimono
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
A brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture’s contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups. “You mustn’t be eaten by the kimono,” says Genshu, making reference to the traditional Japanese dress designed to...
13) Birthing Justice
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Black women in the United States are three to five times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white peers, a statistic that has actually gotten worse over the last 30 years. BIRTHING JUSTICE captures the experiences and challenges of Black women, their families, caretakers and advocates, and examines the structures and systems that determine these disparate mortality rates.The film addresses the myriad issues fueling...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The advent of electronic music in the 20th century was a radical break from all musical traditions that came before it. Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner’s superb SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, and Wendy...
15) Gaea Girls
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
This fascinating film follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japanese women wrestlers. The idea of them may seem like a total oxymoron in a country where women are usually regarded as docile and subservient. However, in training and in the arena, the female wrestlers depicted in this film are just as violent as any member of the World Wrestling Federation, and the blood...
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
Offers small sets of stories, sharp glimpses into a few intimate relationships, layered to mirror the complex reality: Nadouba and Bintu in their West African village, Taz and Patricia from elite St. Mary's Secondary School in Malawi, Ethel and her mother torn between village and the modern world, a relaxed and riotous conversation among a group of Malinké elders. Through knowing them, the audience grows to understand how deep cultural attitudes,...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An award-winning feature documentary that follows a diverse group of resilient survivors who have overcome commercial sexual exploitation of children and are changing the world by ensuring no child is forgotten. The film was honored at the United States Senate, the United State of Women’s Summit, and the United Nations Association USA encouraging policymakers to create and implement laws and policies to combat trafficking. The film won Best Documentary...
18) Plan C
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A determined group of women, midwives, and doctors fight to increase access to abortion pills in the United States outside of a clinic setting. In 2014, Francine, a social scientist based in Los Angeles, and her partners, launched Plan C to spread the word about access to abortion pills online. This is the story of the work done between 2020 and the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
20) Servant or Slave
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. SERVANT OR SLAVE follows the lives of five such women, stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants and later forced into slave labour where they endured immense hardship, rape and even torture - coerced into remaining silent or even punished for reporting...
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