Archive for April, 2012
The World Before Her (and us)
One of the most thought-provoking and best films I saw at Tribeca this year is The World Before Her. It was actually the first one I saw when I arrived in NYC and it's been mulling around in my brain ever since. The World Before Her shows us the Indian woman of today in all her contradictions trying to figure out who she should be tomorrow. We examine the two opposing worlds of femininity in modern day India: ...
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Life Imitates Art with “Una Noche” at Tribeca
In some ways it's a bit of a shame that the US premiere of Lucy Mulloy's stunning film Una Noche at the Tribeca Film Festival is being overshadowed by the back story of the film itself, but it's understandable. We could tell in the Q&A after the film that something was awry. Una Noche takes you into the world of three restless Cuban teens wanting to escape to Miami for both personal and political reasons. In one hot day in Havana, the ...
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A Film I’ve Been Waiting For
I teach film at a women's college (Stephens College) and program films for CJFF, so I'm no stranger to docs about women and the media. There are many, and many very good ones. But the cyberworld moves at a much faster pace than it takes to make a film so it's rare to see a film that captures what's going on today without being outdated as soon as it hits the theatres. And then I saw Sexy Baby last night, which ...
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Tribeca (Chelsea) Film Festival
It's very exciting to have so many of our core Citizen Jane team in NYC for the Tribeca Film Festival this year. Pictured are Paula Elias, myself, and Kate E Lykins and we're the people who spend nearly every day living, breathing, and working on Citizen Jane year round. One of my favorite parts of attending festivals is the chance to meet other colleagues from other festivals, people who also have this crazy need to spend countless hours, weeks, months working ...
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Rock on Ashley Judd!
Ashley Judd responds in a brilliant, authentic and phenomenal way to the media obsession with how women look and in particular the recent coverage about her "puffy face". Read this!http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/09/ashley-judd-slaps-media-in-the-face-for-speculation-over-her-puffy-appearance.html
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