WOMEN WHO FIGHT BACK FILM SERIES
JUNE 3 - 5, 2011
From Mali to the USA, from Colombia to Canada, there are Black women everywhere fighting to defend women's rights .
ADIFF has compiled a few powerful films that tell the stories of women who fight to keep their family, their culture and their integrity alive and strong.
WHEN: JUNE 3 - JUNE 5, 2011
WHERE :
Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
Room 263 Macy
DIRECTIONS:
Take the #1 train to 116th street and walk uptown four blocks. Entrance between Broadway and Amsterdam. Picture ID required to enter building.
PROGRAM:
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 @ 6PM
Faraw, Mother of Dunes by Abbdoulaye Ascofaré (Mali, 90mins)
Zamiatouis the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returns from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her beautiful daughter. Her determination will take her far from her family. FREE SCREENING
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 @ 8:30PM
Josephine Baker- Black Diva in a White Man's World- by Annette von Wangenheim (Germany/USA, 45mins)
A tender, revealing documentary about of the most famous and popular performing artists of the 20th century. Her legendary banana belt dance created theatre history; her song "J'ai deux amours" became a classic, and her hymn. The film focuses her life and work from a perspective that analyses images of Black people in popular culture. It portrays the artist in the mirror of European colonial clichés and presents her as a resistance fighter, an ambulance driver during WWII, and an outspoken activist against racial discrimination involved in the worldwide Black Consciousness movement of the 20th century.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 @ 2PM
Family Motel by Helene Klodawsky (Canada, 88mins)
Raising teenaged daughters is not easy, especially for Ayan, a Somalian refugee living in Canada who also supports a husband and two sons left behind in Somalia. Living in her small Vancouver apartment with her daughters -- Nasrah, 17, and Leila, 15 -- Ayan is trying to keep everything together, but is evicted from her apartment for late payment. Because Ayan is unable to afford the soaring rents her two service jobs, and the Canadian social services are unable to assist in placing her, she and her two daughters must move into a Family Motel. Ayan keeps her faith and dignity throughout these challenging times and, with great fortitude, strives to make the best of her difficult situation.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 @ 4PM
Soraya, Love Is Not Forgotten by Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo (Colombia, 52mins)
In the violent and complex conflict that has racked Colombia, the most vulnerable are always the most affected. Soraya Palacios' story is that of many Afrocolombian peasants displaced from their land in the armed conflict between the national army, Colombian guerillas, and the right-wing paramilitary. Soraya has to abandon her homeland after her husband's assassination by paramilitaries. As a mother of six children, she does her best to provide as much as she can for them. Likes many other Afro-Colombian women displaced from Choco, her daily struggle reflects her desire to resist for getting her culture and history.
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Susana Baca : MemoriaViva by Mark Dixon (Peru/Belgium, 54mins)
Susana Baca is not a champion in the performance and preservation of Afro-Peruvianheritage, but also an elegant singer whose shimmering voice sings of love, loss and life. Susana and her husband Ricardo Pereira have founded the Instituto Negrocontinuo "Black Continuum" in Lima, a spirited facility for the exploration, expression, and creation of Black Peruvian culture. While Baca has dedicated herself to researching and performing virtually all forms of Afro-Peruvian folklore, it is the lando that has become her trademark. This slow to mid-tempo, highly evocative mix of Spanish, Indigenous and African rhythms has become what the son is to Cuba, or the samba to Brazil--the lando is the sound of Black Peru.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 @ 7PM
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story by YousryNasrallah (Egypt, 134 mins) Hebba Younisis a contemporary, fiercely independent talk-show host. She is married to Karim Hassan, an opportunistic newspaper editor for a government-owned daily. Hebba is asked to forfeit the success of her career for the professional ambitions of her husband. She must soften the critical tone of her reports governmental affairs. As Hebba finally complies and shifts away from hard politics to devote her program to social issues - the so-called "women's stories," she discovers lives and struggles that may be even more damaging to reveal. Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story is a surprising, engrossing and thoughtful film about modern gender politics in Egypt.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 1PM
Hearing Radmilla by Angela Webb (USA, 82mins)
This film is a portrait of Radmilla Cody, who was Miss Navajo Nation from 1997 to 1998. It follows her reign as the first biracial Miss Navajo, then explores her pursuit of a singing career, and finally addresses the cruel realities that led to serious legal consequences for her.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 3PM
Umoja- the village where men are forbidden by Jean Crousillac and Jean-Marc Sainclair (France/Kenya, 52mins)
The film tells the story of brave Samburu women who were raped by British soldiers based in Northern Kenya between 1970 and 2003. Dishonored, the women were beaten and renounced by their husbands. In 1990, a few of those women gathered and created Umoja, a village forbidden to men, which rapidly became a refuge for those in a similar plight. Since then, jealous men have frequently attacked Umoja and causing trouble and harassing its founder and matriarch, Rebecca Lolosoli.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 4:30PM
Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis (US, 92mins)
Compensation the first feature by award-winning filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis (Cycles and A PowerfulThang), presents two unique African-American love stories between a deaf woman and a hearing man. Inspired by a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, this moving narrative shares their struggle to overcome racism, disability and discrimination. An important film African-American deaf culture, Davis innovatively incorporates silent film techniques (such as title cards and vintage photos) to make the piece accessible to hearing and deaf viewers alike, and to share the vast possibilities of language and communication.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 7PM
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks by Lisa Gay Hamilton (USA, 90mins)
Beah, A Black Woman Speaks, the directorial debut of actress Lisa Gay 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 and 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. Enlightening and moving, the film is a fitting tribute to Richard's life of integrity, leadership and service to the two cultures she loved so deeply-the arts and the African American community.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Monday, November 26, 2007
NBC News Series looks at gender, race, education
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS"
SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES
"AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: WHERE THEY STAND"
BEGINNING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26
New York, N.Y. -- Throughout the week of November 26, "NBC News With Brian Williams" will take a look at the issues facing African-American women across our nation in a new series "African-American Women: Where They Stand." The series will cover a wide-range of issues from their role in the *08 Presidential race, to the increased health-risks that they need to be concerned about.
Monday-Education
Monday's installment will discuss African-American women*s progress in the education field. Nearly two-thirds of African-American undergraduates are women. At black colleges, the ratio of women to men is 7 to 1. And that is leading to a disparity in the number of African-American women who go on to own their own businesses. Rehema Ellis will talk to educators, students and businesswomen about why this disparity exists.
Tuesday-Relationships and Education
Tuesday, Ellis will look at relationships within the African-American female community. Many agree the gender disparity in education and business among African-Americans is having an effect on relationships that African American women have. Some even say the implications could redefine "Black America*s family and social structure." In the past fifty years, the percentage of African-American women between 25-54 who have never been married has doubled from 20% to 40%. (Compared to just 16% of white women who have never been married today). Ellis sits down with the members of a Chicago book club and talk about this difference and how it impacts them.
Wednesday-Health
Dr. Nancy Snyderman will discuss the increases risks for breast cancer for African-American women on Wednesday. Mortality rates for African-American women are higher than any other racial or ethnic group for nearly every major cause of death, including breast cancer. Black women with breast cancer are nearly 30% more likely to die from it than white women.
Premenopausal black women are more than twice as likely to get a more aggressive form of the disease. And, not only are African-American women more likely to die from breast cancer, but they*re less likely to get life-saving treatments. Dr. Snyderman will profile one of the only oncologists in the world who specializes in the treatment of African-American women with breast cancer.
Thursday- Politics
On Thursday, Ron Allen will take viewers to South Carolina -- the first southern primary state -- and ask the question: Will race trump gender or gender trump race? In South Carolina, black women made up nearly 30 percent of all democratic primary voters in 2004. This year, polls show a significant number are undecided, torn between choosing the first African-American or first female Presidential candidate. Allen talks with the undecided, as well the state directors for the Clinton and Obama campaigns, who happen to be African-American women.
Friday- Miscellaneous
To close the series on Friday, Dr. Snyderman will raise the frightening statistic that African-American women are 85% more likely to get diabetes, a major complication for heart disease. And, like breast cancer, more black women die from heart disease than white women. Dr. Snyderman will profile a leading expert and a unique church-based outreach program in South Carolina that seeks to spread the word about heart disease risks to black women congregants.
Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent for "Nightly News," will address two hot topics in the African - American community: interracial dating and the impact of hip hop music on black women. Interracial dating is a growing trend in the African - American community. An Essence.com poll found that 81% of participants approved of black women dating non- black men. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2000, 95,000 black women were married to white men. In 2005, that number increased to 134,000. Schiavocampo will talk to experts about the trend and discuss how this defines the "Black family" of the future.
Schiavocampo will convene a panel of leading black men and women from the hip-hop industry for an engaging discussion on whether hip hop lyrics and videos positively or negatively affect black women. The roundtable also will address how these portrayals are affecting relationships between black women and black men.
Comment: Many of these issues have been brought up and discussed before in the media. It will be interesting to see if there are any new perspectives to these issues. With statistics, it makes one wonder if they are disaggregated by income, geographical location and class, or are African-American women treated as a monolithic entity? Maybe there will be some "positive news" too.
SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES
"AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: WHERE THEY STAND"
BEGINNING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26
New York, N.Y. -- Throughout the week of November 26, "NBC News With Brian Williams" will take a look at the issues facing African-American women across our nation in a new series "African-American Women: Where They Stand." The series will cover a wide-range of issues from their role in the *08 Presidential race, to the increased health-risks that they need to be concerned about.
Monday-Education
Monday's installment will discuss African-American women*s progress in the education field. Nearly two-thirds of African-American undergraduates are women. At black colleges, the ratio of women to men is 7 to 1. And that is leading to a disparity in the number of African-American women who go on to own their own businesses. Rehema Ellis will talk to educators, students and businesswomen about why this disparity exists.
Tuesday-Relationships and Education
Tuesday, Ellis will look at relationships within the African-American female community. Many agree the gender disparity in education and business among African-Americans is having an effect on relationships that African American women have. Some even say the implications could redefine "Black America*s family and social structure." In the past fifty years, the percentage of African-American women between 25-54 who have never been married has doubled from 20% to 40%. (Compared to just 16% of white women who have never been married today). Ellis sits down with the members of a Chicago book club and talk about this difference and how it impacts them.
Wednesday-Health
Dr. Nancy Snyderman will discuss the increases risks for breast cancer for African-American women on Wednesday. Mortality rates for African-American women are higher than any other racial or ethnic group for nearly every major cause of death, including breast cancer. Black women with breast cancer are nearly 30% more likely to die from it than white women.
Premenopausal black women are more than twice as likely to get a more aggressive form of the disease. And, not only are African-American women more likely to die from breast cancer, but they*re less likely to get life-saving treatments. Dr. Snyderman will profile one of the only oncologists in the world who specializes in the treatment of African-American women with breast cancer.
Thursday- Politics
On Thursday, Ron Allen will take viewers to South Carolina -- the first southern primary state -- and ask the question: Will race trump gender or gender trump race? In South Carolina, black women made up nearly 30 percent of all democratic primary voters in 2004. This year, polls show a significant number are undecided, torn between choosing the first African-American or first female Presidential candidate. Allen talks with the undecided, as well the state directors for the Clinton and Obama campaigns, who happen to be African-American women.
Friday- Miscellaneous
To close the series on Friday, Dr. Snyderman will raise the frightening statistic that African-American women are 85% more likely to get diabetes, a major complication for heart disease. And, like breast cancer, more black women die from heart disease than white women. Dr. Snyderman will profile a leading expert and a unique church-based outreach program in South Carolina that seeks to spread the word about heart disease risks to black women congregants.
Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent for "Nightly News," will address two hot topics in the African - American community: interracial dating and the impact of hip hop music on black women. Interracial dating is a growing trend in the African - American community. An Essence.com poll found that 81% of participants approved of black women dating non- black men. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2000, 95,000 black women were married to white men. In 2005, that number increased to 134,000. Schiavocampo will talk to experts about the trend and discuss how this defines the "Black family" of the future.
Schiavocampo will convene a panel of leading black men and women from the hip-hop industry for an engaging discussion on whether hip hop lyrics and videos positively or negatively affect black women. The roundtable also will address how these portrayals are affecting relationships between black women and black men.
Comment: Many of these issues have been brought up and discussed before in the media. It will be interesting to see if there are any new perspectives to these issues. With statistics, it makes one wonder if they are disaggregated by income, geographical location and class, or are African-American women treated as a monolithic entity? Maybe there will be some "positive news" too.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Science teachers Alert: Women in Science site
The National Academy of Sciences have launched I was Wondering a new interactive site to highlight the achievements of women scientists.
Visitors to the site can travel along a timeline, build a robot and play games.
Try it out at http://www.iwaswondering.org/
Visitors to the site can travel along a timeline, build a robot and play games.
Try it out at http://www.iwaswondering.org/
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