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Showing posts with label Directed by Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Directed by Women. Show all posts

20 September 2018

Tune in : DIRECTED BY WOMEN - a worldwide film viewing party - 1-30 September 2018

Tune in : DIRECTED BY WOMEN - a worldwide film viewing party - 1-30 September 2018

Join the 4th Annual #directedbywomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party

Founder Barbara Ann O'Leary had this to say about the initiative:

We're on a journey. Each year has its own rhythms.
  
The intention of the #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party is to invite film lovers to become aware of the thousands and thousands of women who have directed/are directing films, to inspire exploration and appreciation of their work, and to foster a sense of growing community among film lovers. Ultimately the intention is to help the world fall madly in love with films by women directors. 

The Global Directory of women directors is up to 12426 directors... and counting!

15 September 2015

African Women in Cinema Playlist: Highlighting African women during the Directed by Women worldwide film viewing party | Réalisés par des Femmes, la fête internationale de visionnement de films 2015

African Women in Cinema Blog highlights African women via films online during the Directed by Women worldwide film viewing party - 1-15 September 2015.

Le blog sur les femmes africaines dans le cinema mettre en avant les réalisatrices africaines pendant le Réalisés par des femmes  - 01-15 septembre 2015.




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07 September 2015

Claude Haffner: Footprints of My Other | Noire ici, Blanche la-bàs: Directed by Women worldwide film viewing party | Réalisés par des Femmes, la fête internationale de visionnement de films

African Women in Cinema Blog highlights African women via films online during the Directed by Women worldwide film viewing party - 1-15 September 2015.

Le blog sur les femmes africaines dans le cinéma met en avant les réalisatrices africaines pendant la fête internationale de visionnement de films Réalisés par des femmes - 01-15 septembre 2015.

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[English]
Claude Haffner: Footprints of My Other

Claude Haffner's moving autobiographical story about her place “in between”—black and white as a racial signifier, Africa and Europe—their contrasting beliefs and customs, class, status and gender—what she represents as an Alsatian and its contradictions as a Congolese. One also discerns ker need to redefine herself in relationship to her father and mother—a liberation, as she calls it, and finally as an expectant mother, her research on the formation of identity and how she will transmit her own multiple identity to her child with the hopes that the latter will be able to find, as she was able to, between black and white--her own colour.

[Français]
Claude Haffner: Noire ici, Blanche la-bàs 

Claude Haffner raconte dans une émouvante histoire autobiographique sa place « entre deux », noire et blanche comme signifiant racial, entre Afrique et Europe, leurs croyances et coutumes différentes, entre classe, statut social et genre—ce qu’elle représente en tant qu’Alsacienne et leurs contradictions en tant que Congolaise. On discerne aussi son désir de se redéfinir par rapport à son père et sa mère, une émancipation comme elle le dit. Et puis, comme une future mère, sa recherche sur la formation d’identité et comment elle transmettra sa propre identité multiple à son enfant avec l’espoir que ce dernier trouvera, comme elle l’aurait pu entre le blanc et le noir, sa propre couleur.




05 September 2015

"Difficult Love" by Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid. Highlighting African women during the Directed by Women worldwide film viewing party - 1-15 September 2015

Photography by Zanele Muholi
Difficult Love by Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid. African Women in Cinema Blog highlights African women via films online during the Directed by Women worldwide film viewing party - 1-15 September 2015.

Visual activist Zanele Muholi of South Africa, repositions the African subject that is often represented by others, reclaiming her own space and that of other black lesbians and black South Africans as a whole. Telling her own story and taking ownership of her subject-position, she returns the gaze, re-writes the script that has often left black lesbians and Africans in general without a voice.

Difficult Love

A highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today emerges through the life, work, friends and associates of 'visual activist' and internationally celebrated photographer, Zanele Muholi (who also presents). (From imdb.com website)

04 September 2015

“Woman to Woman” (2013) by Malika Franklin and Véronique Doumbé

Woman to Woman by Malika Franklin and Véronique Doumbé.
 
In the original post the African Women in Cinema Blog highlighted African women's films accessible online during the Directed by Women worldwide film viewing party - 1-15 September 2015.
 
While the website no longer links to a source that streams the film, it continues to provide valuable information about Woman to Woman as well as educational performance viewing details.  See: http://womantowomanmovie.com/
 
Daughter Malika Franklin and mother Véronique Doumbé teamed up to make Woman to Woman (2013), a documentary film exploring the experiences of mothers and of daughters living in New York City.

Woman to woman stands out in many ways, the treatment of the subject, the filmmaking process whereby Véronique Doumbé and her daughter Malika Franklin film other mothers and daughters, and the online view-on-demand distribution strategy, which provides an opportunity for a worldwide audience to experience the English-language film. 

From the Woman to Women Press Kit:

Véronique

The idea of Woman to Woman grew out of discussions with mothers of teenagers about issues relating to being a woman or becoming one. Producing Woman to Woman is exciting because it touches two areas that matter most in my life, being a mother and making films.

Malika

I joined the film after my mother had already begun because I felt it was important to have a teenager's perspective. The film's intention is for mothers and daughters to better understand each other and to have open conversations. This could not be done if the conversation was told only through a mother's eyes.

01 September 2015

Directed by Women - a worldwide film viewing party - 1-15 September 2015


Directed by Women - a worldwide film viewing party - 
1-15 September 2015

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