The Athena Movie Pageant (AFF) at Barnard Faculty introduced its preliminary programming lineup for the 2023 pageant in the present day. The thirteenth annual pageant, which is a joint partnership between Barnard’s Athena Heart for Management and the initiative Ladies and Hollywood, will happen from March 2 to March 5 on Barnard’s campus. The annual pageant contains movie screenings, in-depth conversations and panels with filmmakers and trade consultants, a sequence of applications that assist the pipeline of ladies creatives, and all kinds of occasions targeted on celebrating and amplifying the tales of daring, brave ladies leaders.
JUDY BLUME FOREVER, directed by Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok, will display because the pageant’s Centerpiece Movie on Saturday, March 4th. The documentary, which premiered at Sundance, focuses on Blume — whose books have bought greater than 90 million copies since 1969 — and the generations of readers she has touched along with her work. The movie examines the beloved writer’s impression on these readers, her affect on popular culture, and her frankness about puberty and intercourse — her books are among the many most banned in the USA.
Choices from the narrative program embrace the New York premiere of THE LOST KING directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, DAUGHTER OF RAGE (La hija de todas las rabias), written and directed by Laura Baumeister de Montis, in addition to screenings of THE LOST KING, directed by Stephen Frears, ANGRY ANNIE (Annie Colère), directed by Blandine Lenoir, and MY EMPTINESS AND I (Mi vacío y yo), directed by Adrián Silvestre. The pageant may also display WOMEN TALKING, directed by Sarah Polley, which is nominated for 2 Academy Awards, together with Greatest Image.
The documentary lineup contains two movies that had been members within the Pageant’s Works in Progress program: BLACK MOTHERS LOVE AND RESIST, directed by Débora Souza Silva; and THE FIRE THAT TOOK HER, directed by Patricia Gillespie. Different documentaries embrace BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: CARRY IT ON, directed by Madison Thomas and MY NAME IS ANDREA, directed by Pratibha Parmar.
Shorts embrace the New York premiere of GLAZING, written and directed by Lilli Carré, in addition to screenings of LOVE, BARBARA, written and directed by Brydie O’Connor; TO WADE OR ROW, directed by Rebecca van der Meulen; THE FEELING OF BEING CLOSE TO YOU, directed by Ash Goh Hua; CANS CAN’T STAND, directed by Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka; and EL CARRITO, written and directed by Zahida Pirani.
“Coming into the thirteenth 12 months of the Athena Movie Pageant I couldn’t really feel extra pleased with the distinctive and thrilling slate of movies we’re sharing with our audiences this 12 months. We sit up for bringing these necessary and underrepresented voices to the massive display,” mentioned Melissa Silverstein, Co-Founder and Creative Director of AFF and Founding father of Ladies and Hollywood.
“The narratives we see form our understanding of the world,” mentioned Umbeen Bhatti, Constance Hess Williams ’66 Director of Barnard’s Athena Heart for Management. “On the Athena Movie Pageant, audiences gained’t encounter drained, outdated narratives, however relatively, narratives that extra precisely replicate the world we reside in and the long run we need to construct.”
Further programming for the pageant might be introduced shortly.
Passes and tickets for the 2023 Athena Movie Pageant are on sale now, with extra particulars to be introduced within the coming weeks. Go to the AFF web site for extra data, common updates, and to buy tickets and passes.
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FEATURES
Narratives
Offended Annie (Annie Colère)
France
Director: Blandine Lenoir
Writers: Blandine Lenoir and Axelle Robert
Producers: Aurora Movies, Native Movies
A countryside village in France, 1974. When she unintentionally turns into pregnant, Annie, a working mom of two youngsters, meets with the Motion for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC), medical doctors and ladies who carry out unlawful abortions within the public eye, training a free, secure, and respectful technique. Progressively Annie will be part of their battle, which is able to convey a brand new which means to her life.
Daughter of Rage (La Hija de Todas las Rabias)
New York Premiere
Nicaragua
Director/Author: Laura Baumeister de Montis
Producers: Martha Orozco, Laura Baumeister de Montis, Rossana Baumeister, and Bruna Haddad
11-year-old Maria’s house is the largest rubbish dump in Nicaragua, the place she lives along with her mother. When circumstances change and Maria feels that she has been left alone with nobody to maintain her, she is pressured to seek out her personal method.
Fogaréu
Brazil, France
Director: Flávia Neves
Writers: Melanie Dimantas and Flávia Neves
Producers: Mayra Faour Auad, Vania Catani, and Thomas Sparfel
Following the demise of her foster mom, Fernanda goes again to her rich uncle’s home to implode certainties and let the painful fact about her origins floor.
My Vacancy and I (Mi vacío y yo)
Spain
Director: Adrián Silvestre
Writers: Raphaëlle Pérez, Adrián Silvestre, and Carlos Marques-Marcet
Producers: Testamento and Alba Sotorra
Raphi, from France, fantasizes about romances with princes and about beginning a conventional household. However in actuality, issues aren’t like that. She works in a name heart in Barcelona, struggles with at instances embarrassing dates, and is recognized by her therapist as having gender dysphoria. We comply with this trans girl as she makes her transition, in addition to in her on a regular basis life.
Lacking
United States
Administrators/Writers: Nick Johnson and Will Merrick
Producers: Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian, and Natalie Qasabian
After her mom goes lacking, a younger girl tries to seek out her from dwelling, utilizing instruments obtainable to her on-line.
Shifting On
Sneak Preview
United States
Director/Author: Paul Weitz
Producers: Paul Weitz, Stephanie Meurer, Andrew Miano, Chris Parker, and Dylan Sellers
Directed by Academy Award-nominated author Paul Weitz, Claire (Academy Award winner Jane Fonda) and Evelyn (Academy Award nominee Lily Tomlin) star in MOVING ON as estranged mates who reunite to hunt revenge on Howard (Malcolm McDowell), the petulant widower of their not too long ago deceased greatest buddy. Alongside the way in which, Claire reunites with Ralph (Richard Roundtree), her nice love, as every girl learns to make peace with the previous and one another.
Rachel Hendrix
United States
Director/Author: Victor Nuñez
Producer: Heidi Levitt
A portrait of a widow, mom, professor, and writer, Rachel Hendrix, discovering her method in life after shedding her beloved husband. It’s a story of grief that everyone knows but hardly ever get the possibility to see with such nuance and intimacy.
The Misplaced King
New York Premiere
United Kingdom
Director: Stephen Frears
Writers: Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
Producers: Steve Coogan, Christine Langan, and Dan Winch
Stephen Frears’ newest tells the true story of an beginner historian (Sally Hawkins) battling skepticism and forms in a quest to find the ultimate resting place of King Richard III.
Vera Desires of the Sea
Kosovo
Director: Kaltrina Krasniqi
Author: Doruntina Basha
Producer: Shkumbin Istrefi
Vera is a middle-aged signal language interpreter who leads a well-structured life: a spouse to a famend decide, a supportive mom, and a caring grandmother. Her serenity is disrupted by her husband’s surprising suicide, adopted by an unwelcome, menacing parade of family members who declare to have possession over their village household home. Concern and distrust will power Vera to take the household’s destiny into her personal palms.
Documentaries
Physique Elements
United States
Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Producer: Helen Hood Scheer
BODY PARTS traces the evolution of “intercourse” on display from a girl’s perspective, uncovering the uncomfortable realities behind among the most iconic scenes in cinema historical past and celebrating the daring creators main the way in which for change.
Black Moms Love and Resist
United States
Director/Author: Débora Souza Silva
Producers: Débora Souza Silva, David Felix Sutcliffe, Adina Luo, and Loi Ameera Almeron
Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, moms of younger Black males victimized by police brutality, come collectively and construct a community of community-led assist, mutual assist, and therapeutic.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Canada
Director: Madison Thomas
Writers: Andrea Warner and Madison Thomas
Producer: Stephen Paniccia
This in-depth take a look at the lifetime of the activist and musician presents archival materials by no means seen earlier than, in addition to present-day footage of Sainte-Marie performing and interviews with the singer and her bandmates and colleagues.
Class: Lady
Canada
Director/Author: Phyllis Ellis
Producers: Phyllis Ellis and Howard Fraiberg
When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated however marred by doubt, and her private medical information had been leaked to the worldwide media. The general public scrutiny of her physique, pushed by racism and sexism, obscured essentially the most elementary facet of who she is: an ideal champion.
Esther Newton Made Me Homosexual
United States
Director: Jean Carlomusto
Producers: Jean Carlomusto and Shanti Avirgan
Agility, persistence, and passionate inquiry have pushed Esther Newton’s survival as a butch lesbian, octogenarian athlete, and groundbreaking scholar whose life’s work has influenced generations of LGBTQ activists and students.
The Fireplace That Took Her
United States
Director: Patricia Gillespie
Producers: Julie Goldman, Kristi Jacobson, Carolyn Hepburn, Christopher Clements, and Tracy Elizabeth Jarrett
Mom-of-two Judy Malinowski, then 31, was doused in gasoline and set on fireplace by her crazed ex-boyfriend — and have become one of many first ever to testify from past the grave, on the trial for her personal homicide. A narrative that lives on the intersection of true crime and #MeToo, THE FIRE THAT TOOK HER goes deep inside a landmark case to ask a well timed query: How a lot should ladies undergo with the intention to be believed?
Jeannette
United States
Director: Maris Curran
Producer: Jon Coplon
JEANNETTE tells the story of Jeannette Feliciano, a aggressive bodybuilder and queer single mom, who struggles to deal with trauma after surviving the mass capturing at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. Filmed in placing and intimate vérité, this documentary embraces the energy, hope, and humor of an unimaginable girl’s journey of therapeutic.
Judy Blume Endlessly
United States
Administrators/Producers: Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok
Producers: Sara Bernstein, Marcella Steingar, and Justin Wilkes
Generations of readers have discovered themselves in a Judy Blume ebook. Her title alone unleashes a flood of recollections for anybody who’s gripped considered one of her many paperbacks. For many years, Blume’s radical honesty has comforted and captivated readers — and landed her on the heart of controversy for her frankness about puberty and intercourse. Now the beloved American writer candidly shares her personal coming-of-age story.
Mama Bears
United States
Director: Daresha Kyi
Producer: Laura Tatham
This fascinating movie follows professing Christian dad and mom and LGBQT people who battle with a religion that usually condemns their kids and themselves.
My Identify Is Andrea
United States
Director: Pratibha Parmar
Producer: Shaheen Haq
MY NAME IS ANDREA is a hybrid documentary drama primarily based on the lifetime of author Andrea Dworkin, who many years earlier than #MeToo known as out sexism with revolutionary aptitude. With this movie, the viewer is invited to rethink the legacy of one of the misunderstood figures of the twentieth century. Formed by the values of justice and equality discovered from the civil rights motion as a younger woman, Dworkin noticed the ways in which male chauvinism and discrimination impression each girl’s day by day expertise and dared to demand that ladies be seen as equals.
Queen of the Deuce
Canada, Greece
Director: Valerie Kontakos
Writers: Christos Asteriou, Valerie Kontakos, and Despina Pavlaki
Producers: Ed Barreveld, Valerie Kontakos, and Despina Pavlaki
From the Sixties to the ’80s, Greek-born Chelly Wilson constructed a porn cinema empire and a fame as a savvy operator within the Occasions Sq. neighborhood generally known as the Deuce.
SHORTS
CANS Can’t Stand
United States
Administrators: Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka
Producer: Matt Nadel
CANS CAN’T STAND follows a gaggle of Black trans ladies in New Orleans who’re preventing to repeal Louisiana’s unjust Crime In opposition to Nature by Solicitation (CANS) legislation.
El Carrito
United States
Director/Author: Zahida Pirani
Producers: Zahida Pirani, Mauricio Piratova, and Ran Yan
After a harrowing occasion, an untrusting avenue vendor discovers the embrace of her group.
The Feeling of Being Near You (能靠近你的感觉)
Singapore/United States
Director/Author/Producer: Ash Goh Hua
THE FEELING OF BEING CLOSE TO YOU paperwork a mom and daughter’s try at therapeutic the intergenerational trauma and abuse inside their lives.
Glazing
New York Premiere
United States
Director/Author/Producer: Lilli Carré
The animated feminine nude shifts in smear frames by the historical past of portray, parroting well-known depictions of ladies. She exams the postures by inhabiting them and promptly discarding them, rejecting the fantasy that every represents.
Honey (Madhu)
India
Administrators: Tanmay Chowdhary and Tanvi Chowdhary
Author: Tanvi Chowdhary
Producer: Sue-Ellen Chitunya
Satakshi and Madhu, who went to high school collectively, reunite after years of being aside on an evening of festivities throughout the Durga Puja pageant in Kolkata. Because the evening progresses, we discover out that they’ve emotions for one another however are usually not capable of categorical them.
Lilith & Eve
United Kingdom
Director: Sam de Ceccatty
Writers: Manon Ardisson and Sam de Ceccatty
Producer: Manon Ardisson
That awkward second when the primary girl on earth meets … the primary first girl on earth.
Lengthy Line of Girls
United States
Administrators: Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome
Producers: Garrett Schiff, Rayka Zehtabchi, Sam Davis, and Pimm Tripp-Allen
A lady and her group put together for her Ihuk, the once-dormant coming-of-age ceremony of the Karuk tribe of Northern California.
Look Like You
United States
Director/Author: Snigdha Kapoor
Producers: Pulkit Datta and Lauren Sowa
Tara, a South Asian queer girl, goes to see her 8-year-old organic son after a few years however is unprepared for the tensions that resurface together with his white adoptive dad and mom.
Love, Barbara
United States
Director: Brydie O’Connor
Writers: Brydie O’Connor and Matt Hixon
Producers: Brydie O’Connor and Myriam Schroeter
A brief documentary in regards to the iconic legacy of pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, as seen by the lens and love of her associate of over 30 years, Florrie Burke.
The Panola Venture
United States
Administrators/Writers: Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy S. Levine
Producers: Rachael DeCruz, Jeremy S. Levine, and Melissa Fajardo
THE PANOLA PROJECT follows Dorothy, a convenience-store proprietor, as she goes door to door in her often-overlooked rural Black group with the intention to persuade her neighbors to get their COVID-19 vaccines.
the ritual to magnificence
United States
Administrators: Shenny De Los Angeles and Maria Marrone
Author/Producer: Shenny De Los Angeles
Three generations of Dominican ladies discover their relationship to stress-free their hair. By conjuring the magic of water and the facility of her ancestors, a daughter makes use of spoken phrase poetry as an incantation to interrupt the generational curse that has blocked the ladies in her household from finding the place pleasure lives contained in the physique.
Nonetheless Waters
United States
Director/Author: Aurora Brachman
Producer: Mariales Diaz
A daughter asks her mom a query in regards to the abuse in her mom’s childhood. Her reply begs them to wade by its rippling results all through their lives.
Discuss Black
United States
Director/Author: Future Macon
Producers: Future Macon, Jonathan Baty, Brad Jayne, Kisha Imani Cameron, and Smitha Lee
A timid engineer develops a wild and expressive cut up character to assist her converse as much as the boy’s membership at work.
To Wade or Row
United States
Director/Author: Rebecca van der Meulen
Producers: Leanne Macaione and Dina Barossi
When Jane visits a small city motel, she places her belief in its covert clinic. A sheriff’s arrival locations her future in jeopardy.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
