Tag - Women Make Movies

‘Profiled’ from Women Make Movies now available on illumira

Profiled from Women Make Movies is the latest title to be digitized by the illumira team this week. This video can now be licensed by any illumira member for streaming access. More on this title:profiled

 

  • Profiled – Profiled knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latin youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Some of the victims—Eric Garner, Michael Brown—are now familiar the world over. Others, like Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray, are remembered mostly by family and friends in their New York neighborhoods.
 This title can be licensed from Women Make Movies at orders@wmm.com

‘The Education of Shelby Knox’ and other titles from Women Make Movies and Documentary Educational Resources now available on NJVID

This week NJVID team has digitized and added new titles from the commercial video distributors – Women Make Movies and Documentary Educational Resources. The content includes topics such as sex-education and  Black Arts Movement. These titles can now be licensed by any NJVID member for streaming access. The complete titles in this list are:

  • The Education of Shelby Knox (Women Make Movies) – Winner of the Sundance Best Cinematography Award and the SXSW Audience Award. Lubbock, Texas has an abstinence-only sex education policy in its schools and some of the highest teen pregnancy and STD infection rates in the nation. Shelby Knox is a devout Baptist teenager who has pledged abstinence until marriage. When her interest in politics

    leads her to get involved in a campaign for comprehensive sex education in her town’s public schools, and then to a fight for a gay-straight alliance, she must make a choice: Stand by and let others be hurt, or go against her parents, her pastor, and her peers to do what she knows is right. The Education Of Shelby Knox is an exceptionally timely and intimate look at the cultural wars from the perspective of a young woman’s life. The support her conservative family provides is an example of how a healthy democracy could look given the time and will to listen.

  • N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman (Documentary Educational Resources) – This film provides a broad overview of Ju/’hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/’hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/’hoan life over a thirty year period.
  • Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (Documentary Educational Resources) –  Told through the compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti. And while Poto Mitan offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women’s subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance makes it clear that these are global struggles.

 

 

The titles can be licensed from the following representatives – Women Make Movies: orders@wmm.com; Documentary Educational Resources: alijah@der.org

‘Acting Our Age’ and other titles from Women Make Movies now available on NJVID

This week NJVID team has digitized and added new titles from the commercial video distributor – Women Make Movies. The content includes topics such as aging in women, a spotlight on Oscar nominated actress Beah Richards and many more topics. These titles can now be licensed by any NJVID member for streaming access. The complete titles in this list are:

  • Acting Our Age: A film About Women Growing Old – An invigorating antidote for American culture’s one-dimensional image of older women, this classic film offers empowering insights about women and aging for every generation. Personal portraits of six ordinary women in their 60’s and 70’s who share their lives. In candid interviews that tackle a range of thought-provoking topics, including self-image, sexuality, financial concerns, dying, and changing family relationships, members of the group display both a vibrant strength of spirit and inspiring zest for life.

  • Beah: A Black Woman Speaks – This film, the directorial debut of actress LisaGay Hamilton, celebrates the life of legendary African American actress, poet and political activist Beah Richards, best known for her Oscar nominated role in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner. While Richards’ struggled to overcome racial stereotypes throughout her long career onstage and onscreen in Hollywood and New York, she also had an influential role in the fight for Civil Rights, working alongside the likes of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and Louise Patterson.
  • Out in South Africa –  In 1994, Barbara Hammer was invited to South Africa to present a retrospective of her 77 films and videos at Out in South Africa, the first gay and lesbian film festival on the African continent. While in South Africa she taught several groups of people how to use video, and to record each other in interviews about life as a lesbian or gay man living in the townships.

  • Dream Girls –  This fascinating documentary, produced for the BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical theater company in Japan. Each year, thousands of girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music School. The few who are accepted endure years of a highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles. Dream Girls offers a compelling insight into gender and sexual identity and the contradictions experienced by Japanese women today.
  • Performing the Border –  A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area.

 

The titles can be licensed from Women Make Movies at aaquilino@wmm.com

‘Playing With Fire’ and other new titles from Women Make Movies now available on NJVID

NJVID team has digitized and added new titles from the commercial video distributor Women Make Movies. The content covers a variety of topics related to womens rights, social justice, eco-feminism and includes a Sundance award winning documentary. These titles can now be licensed by any NJVID member for streaming access. The titles in this list are:

  • Playing With Fire – Women Actors of Afghanistan – In Afghanistan, women deciding to be actors make a dangerous choice. Playing With Fire introduces us to six courageous Afghan women who share their passions for acting, dreams, and difficult realities.
  • India’s Daughter – India’s Daughter is the powerful story of the 2012, brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23 year old medical student, who later died from her injuries. In 2012, it made international headlines and ignited protests by women in India and around the world.

  • Dreamcatcher – “You got any dreams you wanna catch?” Sundance award winner Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute with a drug habit, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community, and works to help women and young girls break the cycle of sexual abuse and exploitation.
  • Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution – A parallel, lesbian-feminist revolution was born out of the women’s and civil rights movements of the 60’s and 70’s. Filmmaker Myriam Fougère’s takes us on a road trip through the United States and Canada as she revisits the activists of the time who sparked this revolution to define their own culture.
  • Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth – A film that challenges the cultural imagination surrounding the destruction of the environment and its impact on femicide and genocide. Feed the Green features a variety of feminist thinkers, including ecological and social justice advocates.

  • Nada’s Revolution – A coming of age story in the wake of the Arab Spring, Nada’s Revolution is an intimate portrait of a young, post-revolution Egyptian woman fighting for her freedom and independence in a society caught between old traditions and modernization. Amidst the political turmoil that has paralyzed Egypt for almost three years, we follow Nada’s struggle to establish herself as an independent woman and theater professional as she sets out to make her old dream come true: to work with children’s theater.
  • The Room of Bones (El Cuarto de los Huesos) – This film follows the passage of four mothers in the Institute for Legal Medicine as they search for their children’s remains in the midst of three decades of social violence in El Salvador.
NJVID subscribers can contact orders@wmm.com to license any of the above titles for your members.

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – November 6th, 2015

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NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – June 21, 2015

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NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –February 16, 2014

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NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – July 21, 2013

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